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  • Splinter Groups

    SOME FOLKS can’t leave well enough alone. When Nancy Miller, marketing analyst for Parkersburg, WV-based Woodcraft Supply, first started using a neural-network-based

  • R.I.P. = RIP-Off: Everybody Is Cashing in on Diana

    I WONDER WHAT so many of the collectibles marketers would have done if Princess Diana hadn’t been killed in that car crash.Boy, was Shakespeare wrong

  • Measuring the Loyalty Effect

    ONE OF THE best books I’ve ever read on the subject of customer retention is “The Loyalty Effect” by Frederick F. Reichheld (Harvard Business School Press).Many

  • 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

  • Cable TV Viewers

    SINCE ITS June 1948 invention in Mahanoy City, PA, cable TV (then called community antenna television) has made it into 58.5% of all U.S. households,

  • The Renaissance in B-to-B Lists

    JOB TITLE? Business class? Sales volume? Business-to-business mailers are no longer satisfied with those old-time list selects alone. Now they want to

  • Calling All Rare Talents

    To all of you multi-disciplined creatives who still can’t decide what you want to be when you grow up or can’t describe your occupation in that little

  • Isn’t It Time to Swat That Stupid Millennium Bug?

    Which is a more powerful influence on human behavior, marketing or science?Based on the hoopla surrounding the forthcoming millennium, marketing is the

  • Sessions

    Global Branding and Activation Dean Barrett, Vice President, Global Marketing, McDonald’s Corporation.Coffee Break in the Exhibit HallThe Promotion World