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  100 Voodoo Dolls to Palo Alto?

  IT’S NOT EVERY direct marketer that would have the hubris to run a “Build a shrine to us on your Web site” contest. But then, not every direct marketer

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  Anniversary Songs

  TWO VENERABLE LIST companies are celebrating their 20th anniversaries this month-proof that there is such a thing as stability in direct marketing.One

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  I Went to College for This???

  UNTIL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, I had planned to write a nice docile column about branding successes.Maybe I’ll be docile next issue.A few months ago, I received

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  B-to-B Sales Slowly Rising

  LIKE THE TORTOISE that won the race, business-to-business sales are moving ahead slowly but surely, according to results of a survey presented at this

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  DM Goes Global With Charles Prescott

  In July the Direct Marketing Association named Charles A. Prescott, formerly of The Reader’s Digest Association, as its first vice president of international

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  Home Again

  SWIMMING POOLS and golf courses. Dance lessons and card games. Cookouts and crafts classes.It may sound like a summer camp or a luxury resort, but it’s

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  Europe Calling

  TO JUDGE BY the way share prices for the sector are dropping, the boom in telemarketing in the United States is over. Whether this is the result of overoptimistic

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  ONE AT A TIME

  WHETHER YOU LABEL today’s marketing models as relationship, database, loyalty, retention or one-to-one is not of great consequence. They all express the

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  Singing a National Anthem

  AFTER AN ENCOURAGING test launch in California and the Pacific Northwest, cataloger Moon Song went national last month with a 100,000-piece mailing.Owner

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  B-to-B Catalogs’ Online Customer Service Disappoints

  Business-to-business catalogers have failed to integrate their fulfillment and customer service operations with their online marketing efforts.That’s