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  • GM Goodwrench Dangles Trucks in Sweeps

    GM Goodwrench, the service brand for GM vehicles, has launched a promotion linked to NASCAR designed to build buzz around the 2007 Chevy Avalanche and increase traffic to Chevrolet dealer service departments.

  • Healthy Living Earns Points for Blue Cross/Blue Shield Members

    Since its introduction in January, more than 17,000 Floridians have joined a new Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBS) program that rewards individuals for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

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  • Turning Strategy into Creative for the Hispanic Market

    Marketing to U.S. Hispanics isn’t some mysterious process that breaks all the rules taught on college campuses around the world for decades. To market to Hispanics, just start with the basic marketing model

  • Will Database Upgrades Pay Off?

    Marketers will spend an average of nearly a quarter-million dollars to upgrade their databases, according to a survey of Direct magazine’s readers. Will the investment pay for itself?

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  • Kodak Launches Pirates Promo, Sweeps

    Eastman Kodak Co. has all guns blazing for its mega-promotion around one of the summer’s most anticipated films, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. The company has prepared a host of movie-themed promotions and sweepstakes prizes.

  • Loose Cannon: Federal Feet in the Data Industry’s Shoes

    It must have been quite the Memorial Day for the 26.5 million veterans whose personnel files were stolen as a result of a government employee’s negligence. Nothing makes beer and hot dogs go down smoother than the prospect of having to spend months, and thousands of dollars, trying to clear up one’s credit history.

    Last year’s Congressional data theft hearings set expectations for what some members view as the steps private firms should take to correct data breaches. Yes, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs will spend $25 million notifying veterans via traditional mail and telephone. But will it provide the level of credit monitoring and other restitution members of Congress had previously demanded of private companies that experienced similar breaches?

  • Listline e-Newsletter 05/26/06

    Christian Book Distributors offers 319,603 last-12-month names on the
    CBD Gifts and Home Catalog Buyer list. Sixty-four percent are between 35
    and 59.

  • Pepsi Soars with Superman Returns Sweeps

    PepsiCo. is rolling out a mega promotion tied to Warner Bros. Pictures’ Superman Returns, dangling a cash prize of $1 million.

  • New Products and Services

    Vision Print: a new variable data printing and direct mail system—Formost, Rockville, MD. …

  • Listline e-Newsletter 05/25/06

    Several data card releases are pending for the new Next Generation list
    group. The first file available, Consumers on the Internet/ISP
    Subscribers, has more than 10.8 million names.