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Not Your Father’s Bentley
Imagine a market in which virtually all of your potential customers already own one or more of your products. Imagine further that most of these customers
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SECRET WEAPON
Your sales are slipping and you can’t understand why. Your branding comes out fuzzy. Your newest test just never got off the ground. You’re not sure where
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Look Back, Look Forward, Look Out: Databases fuel one-to-one communication
EBay, the online auction service, had a problem earlier this year: Although visitors to its “my eBay” Web pages were able to specify the categories they
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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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Requiem for Net Stocks? Not Yet
Don’t look now, but by 2005 many of you reading this will look back at 1999 and slap your forehead: Why didn’t I buy Amazon.com stock when it was hovering
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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
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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