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Starting with the wrong assumptions on the telephone is like rolling a boulder uphill. While it can be done, you’ve got a much better shot at success

Starbucks’ notion of managing customer loyalty and relationships is curiously postmodern. The signs and signifiers are all there, but they’re clapped

As DIRECT went to press, the clock was ticking on the proposed American List Counsel Inc./Direct Media Inc. deal. A non-binding letter of intent signed

InfoUSA has named Susan Henricks executive vice president. Henricks will join the Omaha, NE compiler from First Data Enterprises, where she is managing

Imagine a co-op for Ally McBeal.The lovelorn and lovable Ally is one of television’s most popular young urban professionals. She also could be a prototype

Nearly 100 corporate resellers and systems integrators are the latest links in a “closed loop” marketing chain being built by Symbol Technologies.The

Xerox Corp. has invested $30 million to open new call centers in North America and Europe as part of a year-long drive to overhaul its business-to-business

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,

Lily Tomlin’s “Ernestine the Operator” once rhapsodized about the phone company’s technology outstripping technicians’ know-how. “Watch this,” she snorted,

Increased prospecting for franchises and tests for new services offered by company-owned stores are among the teleservices expansions being gradually