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Echo Chamber: Sounds of success reverberate from 70th annual DMA awards
Despite the tomato motif used to promote this year’s competition, kudos and not produce were the focus at the Direct Marketing Association’s 70th International
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British Readers High on Custom
Custom publications stick out in the reader’s mind – even more than catalogs or direct mail.That’s the word from a new survey of British consumers by
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Tektronix Hides Its Color Laser Under a Bushel
The company puts out a sensational line of color printers – but you’d never guess from its latest advertisingThere’s still a school of wise-guy advertising
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The Message You Can’t Miss
Consultants who work for systems integration firm DataLan Corp. spend virtually all their time on the road, and that used to create problems.If a customer
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Toronto Live
As Groucho Marx once sang, “It’s better to live in Toronto than to live in a place you don’t want to.”We bring this up not only because we’re old Groucho
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Filling in pieces of the one-to-one puzzle
“The Experience Economy”, B. Joseph Pine II & James H. Gilmore, Harvard Business School Press, 254 pagesAt first glance, a book on improving the retail
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Turnaround: Sam Goody revives and expands sagging loyalty program
Musicland Group, Inc. the corporate parent for four retail chains, has learned that marketing works best when promotions are highly personalized and targeted
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Once in a Lifetime
Like the Talking Heads, as the DM industry counts down to the year 2000, you may indeed be wondering how we got here. But while “What have we done?” is
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>From the Web to the Desk
double-digit click-through and response rates are leading Boise Cascade Office Products Corp. to increase its investment in e-mail marketing.Itasca, IL-based