Search Results for: data

  • Chicken or Egg?

    Telemarketers usually use databases to enhance the quality of their calls by projecting likelihood of response among a given file, or customizing offers.

  • DATA DOGFIGHT: U.K. processors warn DMers: You can’t ship names to the U.S.

    A potentially nasty dispute has broken out between the British and American DM industries over the exact terms of the European Union’s new data protection

  • Who Should Lead CRM Efforts?

    Customer relationship management, promising the optimization of client dealings across all touch points, has taken hold in organizations large and small.

  • AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

    Eight years ago, the American Heart Association took stock of its direct mail fundraising and felt it could do a better job. Three years later, the organization

  • Sales Syllabus

    The Learning Co., a division of Mattel Inc., is working with Prime Response Inc. to develop personalized teleservices scripts and offers using data collected

  • Three Headaches: Short takes on list industry problems

    Certain topics demand attention, but not much space. Here are some examples.Geographic Selection FeesOnce upon a time, it was darned difficult to deliver

  • TRIED AND TRUE

    This year’s Market Leaders roster has a slightly familiar ring to it – the list includes veteran DMers like Fingerhut and The Sharper Image. Why do they

  • Screen Passes

    The big data swap is on as marketers sling bullet passes to their top targets – and people who act just like them.Welcome back, sports fans. Even non-football

  • First-Half Drop for DR Space

    There is some depressing new proof that direct response space advertising has lost ground.Direct response was the only category showing a year-to-year

  • Bicyclists

    Transportation planners across the nation and product hybrids such as the “cross bike” – which combines drop-handle, mountain and racing bikes – are promoting