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By Whose Authority?
What’s wrong with this statement by somebody who supposedly is a professional salesperson?”An authoritarian source says this move is imperative.”You guessed
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Can We Phone?
Vital Home Services gets customer OKs before calling With consumer antipathy and state restrictions of telemarketing seemingly at an all-time high, one
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STARS OF & Page Screen
Print/Web integration gives custom publishers twice the chance to shineGOOD CUSTOM PUBLISHING – both online and off – can’t just be a sales tool for a
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PUSHING THE ENVELOPE: Don’t Get Me Wrong – I Like Cookies
IF YOU’RE ANYTHING LIKE the DIRECT staff, you finally feel like you’ve just gotten caught up after riding the fall conference merry-go-round. So, of course,
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DIRECTIONS: Montgomery Ward Lives
Montgomery Ward may be closing, but the distribution center left over from its heyday as a cataloger will carry on as a Chicago landmark. According to
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Think It Through
Supply-chain management needs to go beyond the cookie-cutter approachIn our latest book, “One to One B2B” (hitting the shelves in May), we thoroughly
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UPDATING THE NEW DM: Working With Tricky Segments
IN A RECENT COLUMN, I suggested that modelers could improve their results by splitting data sets according to some critically important variable such
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Emotion Wins the Loyalty Race
Connect with your customers by showing them you care Companies with strong customer relationship management initiatives realize that relationships aren’t
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Cutting-Edge Customer Support
Customer contact centers must quickly adapt to dot-com clients’ changing needs, providing new strategies and product offersDot-coms and their clients