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Agencies

  • Forrester Predicts Dot-com Shakeout

    Consolidations, closings may leave only the strongest on the scene at 2002’s end.The electronic retailing industry will undergo the first phase of a three-part

  • United We Stand

    independent bookstores, which have been slowly losing ground to retail store chains and online sellers like Amazon.com, will soon be able to fight back.

  • Ready, Fire, Aim

    too many companies are jumping into the Internet without considering some direct marketing basics. For one thing, they have thrown the customer overboard

  • SWING SET

    Independent voters are increasingly important to politicians, but it takes good data mining skills to reach them.A generation ago, reaching out to independent

  • Fulfillment 101: Online orders present new distribution challenges

    Judging by studies from both Forrester Research and Jupiter Communications and a host of horror stories from this past Christmas, the No. 1 problem with

  • New York Senate Gets Tough on Privacy

    Passes telemarketing bill; mulls one on insurance ID.The New York State Senate has passed one bill and is considering another that would toughen the state’s

  • Brooklyn Union Powers Up: Online e-BRCs help energy supplier generate new leads

    brooklyn Union has found a major new lead-generation tool – an online business reply card connected to its Web site. Web responses accounted for 10% of

  • BURNED AGAIN: Lots of Hits

    First, Net surfers were tricked by scam artists. Next, call-girl services. Now perhaps the ultimate mis-users of the Web have been uncovered.More than

  • Ice Storm

    Mailing list brokers are not comfortable working with e-mail service providers – and the feeling is mutual. Their differences came out last month during

  • Major Promo

    Since this department provides critical analysis, we are accustomed to being accused of throwing bricks at this DM campaign or that.It therefore gave