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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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Telemarketing Stocks Rebound
The clamor for Internet service supplier stocks is masking a remarkable turnaround for publicly traded telemarketing companies.Less than 18 months removed
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B-to-B Marketers Are Tops in e-Commerce
Most of the hoopla about the Web is focused on consumer sites. But a new study from Catalog Age magazine’s i.merchant supplement shows that the real Web
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The Art of the Dealer
E-commerce has infiltrated the rarefied world of the fine art galleries one finds in New York’s SOHO or San Francisco’s SOMA districts. A new business-to-business
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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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Off the Straight and Narrow Path
If you’re a marketer who uses regression models, you need to understand the topic of nonlinearity: What it is, why it is important, how it could improve
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A DM E-volution: Business and consumer acceptance of e-mail as a marketing tool skyrockets
Surprised at how rapidly e-mail marketing has grown? Think of it this way, offers Deb Goldstein, president of IDG Communications List Services, Framingham,
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Promoting Intelligence: IBM’s direct response effort touts business services
On the off chance anyone worried that IBM was lacking in business intelligence, the company has decided to spend $30 million to make sure we all know
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HALL OF FAME: With Honors
Jim Kobs, Eddie Smith and Eddie Bauer are this year’s inductees to the Direct Marketing Association’s Hall of Fame.Jim Kobs is chairman and CEO of Kobs
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Cutting the Fat: Frito Lay reaches buyers of low-fat potato chips
One-to-one marketing is often touted as a great strategy for high-ticket items. But what about low-cost, commodity-type products like those found in a