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More Voices on the Party Line
Nearly 100 corporate resellers and systems integrators are the latest links in a “closed loop” marketing chain being built by Symbol Technologies.The
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Blue Cheer: Custom magazine keeps an insurer’s patrons loyal
All the prospecting in the world won’t help a company if it’s losing members as fast as it’s gaining them. Such was the case with Blue Cross Blue Shield
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Starbucking
Starbucks’ notion of managing customer loyalty and relationships is curiously postmodern. The signs and signifiers are all there, but they’re clapped
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MEDIA WATCH: DRTV Guide
Considering it’s on the coffee table of almost every household in America, TV Guide could be viewed as a fairly populist magazine. It comes as a surprise,
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Penetration Models vs. Response Models
Let’s say you want to predict the probability of your customers’ response to one or more promotions – an upcoming direct mail or telemarketing effort,
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F&G Buys Two, Sells Two
Horticulture direct marketer Foster & Gallagher Inc., Peoria, IL, has acquired two plant catalogs – Gurney’s Seed & Nursery Co. and Henry Field’s Seed
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Go Ahead, They’re Listening: ATT Wireless debuts automated monitoring system
ATT Wireless Services has instituted an automated call monitoring program to track and measure the performance of a growing number of telereps employed
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1to1, the Magazine
The future predicted by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers is already here.U.S. firms have awakened to the realization that customers are lifetime corporate
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The Steak – and the Sizzle
A tight labor market in its home base of Omaha, NE, turned up the heat on Omaha Steaks Inc.’s teleservices operations, leading the mail order meat marketer
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Silly Sneaker Site
Nike’s revamped Web site (www.nike.com) proves to be an interesting exercise in frustration. Its mix of Gen-X graphics, celebrity endorsements, products