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Inventive Incentives
Last month, the Coca-Cola Co. topped 2.5 million registered users for its My Coke Rewards loyalty program, largely by dangling incentives such as cruises
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The First Syllable of Dogma
WE TEND TO REPEAT DOGMA BECAUSE IT’S THE easiest and in the absence of education most defendable argument we can mount. So when somebody asks us what
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The Saturn Story
A different kind of company, a different kind of car was Saturn’s original advertising slogan. A lot has been written about Saturn, which was one of the
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What’s Your Click-Fraud Color?
HERE’S A PERSONALITY TEST for search engine marketers: When it comes to fraud in pay-per-click advertising, which of the following statements do you most
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Web DMers Dreaming of a Green Christmas
CHRISTMAS MAY SEEM FAR off, but online direct marketers already are anticipating the season. They hope to pull in 20% of their 2006 revenue during the
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BACK IN THE INBOX
After shying away from e-mail following the dot-com crash, business-to-business direct marketers apparently are embracing it again, and not just for retention.
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A Big Mac and $1 Million, Please
Some people view dining at McDonald’s as a way to quickly satisfy hunger. For others, at least for a few weeks out of the year, it’s a moneymaking opportunity.
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DMers Offer Five Unconventional Tips
THINK E-CARDS ARE STUPID? Then you weren’t sitting in the audience at the 50 DM Ideas in 50 Minutes panel discussion last month at the List Vision conference
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Ads and the Blogosphere
THE BLOGOSPHERE IS getting to be quite a crowded spot. At press time, Nielsen BuzzMetrics BlogPulse had identified about 32.9 million blogs on the global
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Humpty Dumpty Does DM
ARE ADVERTISING PLANNERS who fail to include eggs with direct mail, DRTV and magazine space ads in their channel mixes doing clients an injustice? Before