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  • DMers’ PR Strategy: Get Visual

    As direct marketers vie for a more strategic position at the executive table, they have a mighty weapon: numbers. Deep inside marketing databases lie

  • A Guide to Giving

    Way back in 1997, it was hard for a small nonprofit with a limited budget to get attention. The Internet wasn’t the fundraising powerhouse it is today,

  • Alive and Well

    In this multichannel age, direct mail is still the largest single power in direct marketing. The U.S. Postal Service handled 102.5 billion pieces of standard

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  • CLARIFICATION

    RCI Global Vacation Network uses SAS’ Enterprise Miner data-mining software in its customer modeling work (Vacation Planning, January).

  • A Capital Idea? Well

    The problem with so many loyalty programs is they demand our loyalty but don’t volunteer a rat’s behind for their loyalty. Veteran air travelers are quite

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  • Rainbow Rewards Goes West

    Last year Rainbow Rewards, a loyalty plan designed to boost local businesses in Denver, increased enrollment 150 times

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  • Window-Shopping the Small Screen

    Little more than a month after the holidays, many consumers probably still have psychic scars from the jammed malls and parking lots. Those memories may

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  • ZIP+4 + 2 = ZIP+6

    How do you get an entire newspaper chain to improve its targeting? It’s not easy when you own 90 papers, ranging from small weeklies to big-town dailies.

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  • Ikea Hops into Bed-making Contest

    Did you make your bed this morning? That could be worth $5,000.

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  • MySpace Helps Out

    MySpace’s huge popularity and fame has not come without a cost. As the social networking site has swelled to enormous numbers, high-profile problems involving young users have led to complaints that the company has…