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  • Wake up and Smell the Co-Marketing

    Account-specific marketing is stopping traffic in Greenwich Village.It started with Fender Guitars’ Christmas radio campaign, the first consumer spots

  • Cash From Chaos

    MOST DATABASE records can be ranked alphabetically or numerically by information in their fields. Related data, such as ZIP codes, can be clustered for

  • The Good Guys Get Some

    The Coupon Information Corp. recently awarded its Gold Medallion to IRS Special Agent Paul Deery and Assistant United States Attorney Paul Sarmousakis,

  • Reclaiming Salem’s Lot

    Joe Camel may be on a respirator, but RJR’s Salem cigarettes, a brand that faded from view after the industry’s price rollback in 1994, is quietly going

  • Start Your Engines

    SEARCH ENGINES are still the favorite way for consumers to find products on the Web. More than ever, it’s important to be savvy about how search engines

  • In-house Ed at IBM

    PERHAPS NOTHING symbolized the IBM of the past more than its fabled salesmen in the gray flannel suits. But since 1994 the old-line computer company has

  • Busytown Goes Mobile

    HOLLYWOOD Busytown’s cast of characters have hit the road to open a 20-city interactive tour that is set to land at malls throughout the East and Midwest.This

  • The Xoom Boom

    XOOM INC., San Francisco (www.xoom.com), runs a Web community with a difference: Unlike most such communities, like GeoCities and Tripod, a large part

  • Back to Shool

    SHARPEN THOSE PENCILS-DM education programs are gearing up for the fall semester.* New York University’s Center for Direct Marketing will offer 10 courses

  • Neatness Still Counts

    The biggest reason shoppers give for picking a store to buy prepared food isn’t the food’s taste. Consumers say the No. 1 determinant for why they shop