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Virgin Plays Loyalty Tune
Cancel the funeral for the retail music business. Virgin Megastores has created a rewards program that it hopes will stem music downloads and drive audiophiles
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Running Scared
They’re here. The new postal rates, debated for almost a year, are scheduled to hit May 14. And they’re reasonable, unless you happen to be a catalog
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Click the Vote
If the 2008 presidential candidates really want to reach voters, they’ll focus their attention online. Sure, TV, radio and newspapers are still important.
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Anti-Spammers Get Personal
Ralph Penton is one of the angriest people I’ve ever interviewed. And if the story he tells is remotely true, he has every right to be as outraged as
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Three-Point Landing Pages
From search and display ads to e-mail campaigns, print ads, direct response TV and even direct mail, direct marketers are driving prospects to the Web
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Blender Ad Doesn’t Quite Blend
Quick. If you were paging through a magazine and came across this Breville blender ad, what would your impression be in the first five or 10 seconds?
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Unstuck in the Mud
I’m thinking of trimming the number of my credit cards down to six or seven. Silly, isn’t it? Theoretically, nobody needs more than two credit cards one
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Sniff Sniff
Put a bowl of Hershey kisses on a counter, add the smell of chocolate and you’re on your way to one of your most successful product launches. That’s what
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Shopping Advice
At one time or another, most marketers need a vendor to handle some aspect of their creative work. But how does one find the right partner? What’s the
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The Next Level
Dollars-and-cents ROI isn’t the only important metric for a data-driven company to consider when evaluating a loyalty program’s success. Indeed, the true