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  • Online With the Operator

    Online shoppers may prefer to skip the mall, but they still like to hear those four soothing words, “May I help you?” now and then. In a Yankelovich study,

  • THE Weakest Link

    Both the beauty and the curse of the telephone channel is the two-way access it gives customers to your company in real time. When it works well it is

  • Making the Most of a Painful Mistake

    IN JANUARY, Christophe Pettus, president of San Francisco adult product DMer Blowfish, broached the idea of scaling back the company’s paper catalog to

  • Bull Direct Marketer

    SINCE THAT sports thing didn’t work out for local hoopster Michael Jordan, it’s good he has something else to fall back on: direct marketing.In addition

  • He Shot New York

    DM VETERAN RALPH Ginzburg was never one to shoot blanks. He took on the U.S. government in the Supreme Court case Ginzburg vs. United States after his

  • She Believes in DM

    SINGER/ACTRESS/POP icon Cher has gone online with a Web site that features a virtual version of her catalog Sanctuary.The site (www. cher.com) is designed

  • British Tourist Authority Comes Out in the U.S.

    THE BRITISH TOURIST Authority has begun a campaign in the United States-to a very targeted audience.It mailed 75,000 brochures to gay and lesbian households

  • Playboy’s Online Libido

    PLAYBOY’S LAWSUITS against Netscape Communications Corp. and Excite apparently are more than mere trademark disputes. At stake may be leadership of the

  • Best Medicine

    CONSUMERS increasingly view doctors as less-than-trustworthy technicians, chosen more for their location or managed care affiliation than their bedside