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Like It’s 1999
PARDON ME FOR GLANCING at the calendar so often. But you see, I just can’t shake this sneaking suspicion that it’s 1999 all over again. See, I spend my
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InsiderPages.com Offers Neighborly Advice
WE TEND TO TRUST PEOPLE who are like us. InsiderPages.com is taking advantage of that fact by overlaying a local directory function on top of a social
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Monster’s Ad Short on Response-Building Elements
This Monster.com ad is one of those you have to really work at to figure out. As often happens, the copy down below in tiny art-director type is not bad,
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Housing Mailing Gets 23% Response
Food for the Poor notched a 23% response to a recent mailing targeting high-end donors. Contributions will be used to help build homes in 16 Caribbean
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Borders Uses Data to Boost Service
KEEPING 30 MILLION CUSTOMERS happy is a tall order. But Borders Group Inc. has taken on that challenge with information to back it up. Borders has been
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Sunset Your Modality, Please
DURING A RECENT INTERview, a high-level marketing agency executive said his company’s goal for a recent acquisition was to create an integrated marketing
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Hanging on the Telephone
Comcast Corp. Has found what it believes is a good substitute for direct mail in some markets: Door hangers. That’s right. The telecom giant launched
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Jeeves Gets the Boot
Jeeves, the longtime mascot of search engine Ask Jeeves, will soon get his walking papers. News of the butler’s booting came from Barry Diller, chairman
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Double Trouble
DON’T SAY WE DIDN’T WARN YOU. Direct magazine staffers will descend on Atlanta this week with two things on our minds: to serve up the dish in our show