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Agencies

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Detroit

    Motor City markets are big on coupons, but short on some of the services that are standard in other cities. Detroit is the No. 1 market for stores offering

  • TRADE & SALESFORCE

    Home Delivery/USA Of course it’s important to know your customer, but for Packard Bell, it became crucial to get to know its retail salespeople – and

  • The Recognition Factor

    Branding used to have a fixed definition of fixed identity: the set of images or associations surrounding a particular product or service and comprising

  • Dead Letter Files

    DMers continue to solicit the dead and the response they get is devastating to the industry’s image.”The mail sent to deceased persons is a fraction of

  • DIRECTNEWSLINE

    Survey: Service Bureaus Hardly Perfect Database marketers are less than satisfied with their service bureaus, according to a recent survey by KnowledgeBase

  • “Data Weenies Beat List Weenies”

    The last decade was a sweet one for database marketers. Lots of data was being collected and customers and prospects responded the way they were supposed

  • Titles to Leaf Through

    Feeling misunderstood? Read a book.”Get Your Message Across: The Professional Communication Skills Everyone Needs” (Allen & Unwin, Chicago) promises to

  • Reel Deals

    Killing Mrs. Tingle (Miramax) Anticipated Release Date: Second Quarter 1999Starring: Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Marisa Coughlan, Liz Stauber, Vivica

  • Broker Uses Conference to Publicize Suit

    In what amounts to throwing down a gauntlet, a list broker distributed copies of a lawsuit he filed against Dun & Bradstreet to the press attending the