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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

  • THE NET PROWLER

    CLICKING UPSTREAM In the June issue we covered Narrative Communications Corp. (www.narrative.com) of Waltham, MA and its Enliven banner-ad technology,

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • RECRUIT THE A-TEAM

    IT’S GENERALLY believed that after a certain amount of time spent working the phones, telephone representatives burn out. I maintain that reps are more

  • Customers for Life: Applying Relationship Marketing

    THIS IS THE FINAL PART of an excerpt on relationship marketing from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing”

  • People

    Time Life Inc., Alexandria, VA, named Amy Golden vice president, new product development, for its book unit.Epsilon, Burlington, MA, tapped Michael Iaccarino

  • Field Trip: Chicago Natural History Museum Digs for New Members

    THE FIELD MUSEUM of Natural History in Chicago is as well known for research as it is for its exhibits. Beginning next month, the Field will explore uncharted