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AgenciesTRADE & SALESFORCEHome 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 
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AgenciesAccount-Specific Spotlight: DetroitMotor 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 
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AgenciesConvenience is WorkAside from obvious issues of size and selection, what distinguishes the convenience store channel from its supermarket, mass merchandise, and drug store 
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AgenciesThe Ecstasy and the AgonyIn our business, you have to have a champion at the top, or there will be no database marketing program. In most industries, database marketing is not 
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AgenciesCOMING OF AGEJ. Walker Smith, of market researchers Yankelovich Partners Inc., Norwalk, CT, says age mixes two things, life-stage and cohort, “a generational group 
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AgenciesIn the BagWe-and we don’t mean just the editorial we-were roaming around the Direct Marketing Association’s annual conference in San Francisco last month when it 
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AgenciesMcCann Drives Off With the DiamondThe big winner at the 69th Direct Marketing Association Echo awards last month was McCann Relationship Marketing, New York. McCann took both a gold (automotive) 
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AgenciesA New PrescriptionIn the midst of recent controversy surrounding health maintenance organizations covering Medicare beneficiaries, HMOs are stepping up their use of direct 
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AgenciesBreaking E-bordersThe International Federation of Direct Marketing Associations (IFDMA) voted last month to support an e-mail preference service without borders, providing