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GM Looks to Drive Sales: Online services aim to fend off competition
As part of an effort to become a more customer focused one-to-one company, General Motors is uniting its vast online holdings under a centrally integrated
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Reading, Writing and Relationships
Who could have written or spoken these words?- The marketing landscape has been forever changed. Fierce competition, fragmented media, unlimited information
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Clicks and Calls = Connections
Fidelity Investments is mining data from its 8 million retail financial services accounts to transform routine inbound calls and visits to its Web site
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All Talk, No Action: DMers slow to warm up to new technologies
Nestled within a new study from the Direct Marketing Association is evidence that marketers have not fully embraced technological innovation.Only 5% of
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Two Twists on DRTV
It’s shopping by television this time around, with two neat, if not new, variations on DRTV: Cadillac’s spin on the infomercial and PAX TV’s take on a
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Blame Canada? Not so Fast…
Should we blame the government?Or blame society?Or should we blame the images on TV?NO! Blame Canada!- Trey Parker and Marc ShaimanBefore you ask, no,
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Raise Your Glasses
Americans drank 531 million gallons of wine in 1998, and, according to wine industry sources, about 80% of that was consumed at home. That’s a lot of
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LEGISLATION: House Panel Revises Sweeps Act
Tough new sweepstakes regulations were approved recently by the House postal subcommittee. The revised Honesty in Sweepstakes Act (HR-70) mirrors a bill
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Dead and Responding Quite Well
Remember the maxim about absolutes? A person can’t be sort of pregnant or a little dead. When it comes to Internet marketing, however, you may have noticed
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Let’s Be FRIENDS
DMers and Net heads try to warm up to one anotherNot long ago during a presentation at a direct marketing conference, the young CEO of an Internet company