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Agencies

  • Dissent Over Incentives

    THERE ARE worse ways to build a database online than with bribes, especially if a site’s purpose is data collection first and e-commerce second.But greasing

  • What a Surprise: Nobody Is Responsible

    OF COURSE you know the difference between America Online and a computer virus: A computer virus works.I was musing over this minor truism as I tried vainly

  • Living in an Opt-in Environment

    SURPRISES in legislation are rare. Which makes a recent event in the European Parliament quite unusual. Minutes before a debate on the distance selling

  • Quill Enters the British Market

    THE QUILL office supply catalog has been introduced in the United Kingdom by parent firm Staples Inc.-the first step of a general expansion in Europe.Since

  • Press: 1 to Build a Relationship

    WE MUST CONFESS we don’t much like informational newsletters and magazines designed to help a company’s customers better enjoy a product or service. As

  • DATA DAM

    THE SPATE OF recently introduced privacy legislation may have a flag-waving, feel-good aura about it, but be alert. The direct marketing industry, experts

  • Replanting for Garden Botanika

    GARDEN BOTANIKA INC. intends to close almost a third of its retail stores and lay off more than 1,000 workers in the wake of an April Chapter 11 bankruptcy

  • Increasing Profits by Not Mailing

    FOR MANY, waiting through the early stages of determining lifetime customer value feels like eating Brussels sprouts. It’s not something you do for fun,

  • Beyond the Bag

    AFTER HANDING OUT 100,000 co-op giveaway bags to departing Super Bowl fans in January, Bob Perlstein, president of LCC Inc. in Atlanta, was so enthusiastic