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  • Spare Parts Central

    HYUNDAI Motor America hopes to sell spare parts and build its $150-million-a-year North American business through an extranet system for dealers.The Korean

  • USPS May Have Another $1 Billion Surplus

    Unless there’s a sudden and sharp decline in mail volume and revenue, the U.S. Postal Service appears to be heading toward its fourth $1 billion surplus

  • Long-Term Fix

    WHAT IT COST to keep a customer, and what’s it worth over the long haul? These are two of the most important questions DMers can ask themselves these

  • Electronic Promotions Threaten DM Couponing

    WHILE DIRECT MAIL remained a favored method of receiving samples or coupons, ranking second only behind free-standing inserts in newspapers, its popularity

  • After Delays, E-centives Emerge on the Web

    HERE’S A NICE little tale about the importance of keeping on your toes when doing Web marketing.Bethesda, MD-based Emaginet (www.emaginet.com), founded

  • No Two Alike

    PRINT TECHNOLOGY has allowed direct marketers to edge closer to the ideal of one-to-one marketing. Leading the charge is on-demand printing, which enables

  • SHOW AND TELL

    THE CONCEPT OF giving consumers “access” to their personal data-allowing them to see, and if necessary correct, information marketers possess about them-seems

  • B-to-B DMers Suffer from Market Woes

    BUSINESS-TO-business DMers couldn’t escape the stock market’s downturns during the last three months.The 32 B-to-B direct marketers tracked by Gruppo,

  • Building Muscle

    POSING FOR a portrait in his company’s lavish Woodland Hills, CA lobby, Michael Carr, president and CEO of muscle-mag publisher Weider Publications, briefly