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  • Edging Back to Business as Usual

    Monday, as the stock market re-opened, U.S. stocks plummeted. But it was a start. So it goes for direct marketers. Call center volume, which came to an almost complete halt last Tuesday, is slowly returning to normal.

  • Drivin’ Hard

    As customers make purchases they reveal what they like, enabling Whitney to better target them in the future IT USED TO BE REAL EASY to find the recent

  • Enough is Enough

    A friend of DIRECT shared an embarrassing story with us. Amy (whose last name will remain secret for reasons that will be obvious in a moment) ordered

  • Expand Your Focus

    The conservative business cases are often strong enough to justify your proposal while giving management a wider margin for error A database’s ability

  • California Dreaming

    CALIFORNIA, the most ferocious of all states on the privacy issue, is about to top even the federal government. A harsh new opt-in measure was approved

  • Dialing the RIGHT Number

    The targets for each product are different. When AT&T knows the number of PCs a business has it can determine the best candidates for high-speed data

  • New Lists

    PennWell This database lists the e-mail addresses of some 400,000 subscribers to PennWell publications who registered on the company’s Web site. They

  • Where Has All the Data Gone?

    WITH THE ENACTMENT of the Shelby amendment, big compilers like Experian and R.L. Polk & Co. have developed surrogates to fill the loss of Department of

  • HealthInfo and Others Form Direct Marketing Group

    HealthInfo and its sister division, Generations Publishing, have joined with two other companies to create a direct marketing group called HealthInfo Direct.

  • AIM Releases Merge/Purge Guidelines

    An Association for Interactive Media (AIM) council is releasing guidelines for e-mail merge/purge today. The guidelines form a suggested standard for the practice of purchasing multiple e-mail lists, combining (merging) them and eliminating (purging) any duplicate names.