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Agencies

  • Smart Targets

    It pays to segment your markets into groups of similar customerseveryone knows that data is the most important element in business-to-business marketing.

  • New and Improved: A Good Old-Fashioned Homemade Original

    HOW BIG A HOUSE do you need to make “homemade” ice cream?If you have one of those electric gadgets that can turn out a pint of mushy ice cream for about

  • Opt-in in the U.K.

    British direct marketers debate privacy and e-mail IF YOU’RE GOING to solicit and use e-mail addresses, you’d better do it right. In the United States,

  • SPIRAL MARKETING

    Friends Who Shop Together… SOME MARKETERS shy away from viral marketing in which the recipient of an e-mail message is encouraged to pass it along to

  • Tough Lessons in Web Development

    LOSING THE ELECTRICITY for two weeks after Hurricane Fran hit turned out to be the least of the problems for the Queensboro Shirt Co. when it tried to

  • Quality Control

    Top B-toB marketers use benchmarking and other tools to determine what customers wanta stute direct marketers have learned that it takes more than data

  • Lawsuits Claim False Advertising

    AT&T, Sprint and WorldCom, the nation’s top three long distance telephone companies, are being sued for false advertising in the marketing of their services

  • Stockbrokers

    THE SHIFT from a brick-and-mortar economy to online brokerage services is transforming the role of stockbrokers and how clients are charged for investment

  • Anti-Spam Legislation Moves to Senate

    The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill last month that tightens government control over unsolicited commercial e-mail. The legislation would

  • DMI Debuts Business Mailers Alliance

    Direct Media hopes that the dual appeal of transactional data and low pricing will drive clients to join its Business Mailers Alliance cooperative database.The