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  • Live from the Gartner CRM Summit 2003: Helping Customers Serve Themselves

    Self service: The very term suggests downsized call-center staffs and vast savings as customers move their inquiries to the Web. But self service can

  • Live from the Gartner Summit: Banks Turn to Event Marketing

    For all their talk about CRM, banks are not as advanced as you might think. When asked to name their most important activity in driving marketing initiatives,,

  • Ask the pharmacist

    Few areas of retailing have experienced greater change than the drugstore business in the last generation. The drugstore of today is separated into two

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  • Agency Moves

    Bob Lawrence has been named president of 141 Worldwide’s Atlanta office. Previously executive VP-client services, he now has total bottom line responsibility

  • Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk

    The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have dominated on the field, but it was H&R Block that won the Super Bowl with an ad spot starring everyone’s favorite tax

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  • Playing In Their World

    It figures that the captain of the U.S. Beer Drinking Team (USBT) is a rocket scientist. Think of us as the beer version of MCI’s Friends & Family, says

  • News briefs from Directmag.com

    Feb. 6, 2003 Call Solutions, a direct marketing services company, acquired lettershop and fulfillment house FalaDM Group. Combined revenue exceeds $150

  • Customer Segmentation: Problems, Solutions

    Direct marketers have to understand the issues and choices involved in customer segmentation to be able to manage such a project effectively from conception

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  • By Design

    Sometimes, it’s beauty before brains. Miller Brewing Co. and Coca-Cola Co. have both used packaging redesigns to set marketing strategy to reinvigorate

  • majoring in the classics

    Fashion’s foe has always been fickle consumers. Just when an apparel brand has pinpointed the latest craze, chic shoppers move on. After two years of