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  • 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

  • Tracking May Avoid Customer Defection

    IT’S POSSIBLE FOR a company to show increases in both revenue and its customer base and still have a poor retention program.That’s the opinion of Carla

  • The Issue of Imagery

    IN “On Moral Fiction,” author John Gardner claimed that there were two ways to establish your creativity: You could do something better-give it a twist

  • Is There a Promotion Exec in the House?

    Promo’s 1998 Annual Report of the Promotion Industry shows impressive growth – up seven billion dollars, or 10 percent, from last year. This windfall

  • Evaluation in Evolution

    In our fast-forward age, where a sense of personal superiority often rests on having a quicker modem speed than one’s neighbor, it is hard to remember

  • Two Seattle Utilities Get Bright Idea

    WHILE MARKETERS gathered in Seattle for the National Center for Database Marketing conference and listened to theory and case studies, two of the state’s

  • Not at Your Service

    THIS IS THE fifth year we’ve done an informal accounting of service standards in the consumer catalog industry. In the past, we generally reviewed about

  • Directnewsline

    Reader’s Digest Plans Global Change THE READER’S DIGEST Association, Pleasantville, NY, is planning a global reorganization aimed at revitalizing the

  • B-to-B Catalogs’ Online Customer Service Disappoints

    Business-to-business catalogers have failed to integrate their fulfillment and customer service operations with their online marketing efforts.That’s