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  • BROKER BASH

    What do you get when you put eight list brokers in a room?Some very blunt remarks about almost everything.DIRECT learned this in June when it conducted

  • Is It CRM – or DRM?

    Though they’ve used the Web to raise money for the victims of catastrophes like Hurricane Mitch, nonprofit charities see even more promise in it as a

  • Holes in the Net

    Just when it looked like e-commerce was about to really take off, somebody rained on the parade. According to a new international survey, many transactional

  • Ready, Fire, Aim!

    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

  • Direct Mail Adds Little to Environmental Costs

    The U.S. Postal Service has released the results of a report that estimates the environmental cost of Standard A mail at $126 million, or less than 0.2

  • Penetration Models vs. Response Models

    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,

  • EDUCATION: Readin’, Writin’ and Telemarketin’

    In Maine, telemarketing gets lots of respect. Now that lobstering and lumbering no longer sustain the citizenry, some 25,000 people of a population of

  • ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE

    Internet marketer DoubleClick, Inc., New York City, acquired direct-marketing research firm Abacus Direct Corp., Broomfield, CO, in a deal worth $1 billion

  • Online Ad Spending to Hit $32 Billion by 2005

    Online advertising expenditures will reach $32 billion in 2005, up from nearly $2 billion this year, predicts market researcher the Myers Group.The report

  • DIRECT Listline

    Ducks Unlimited Novus Marketing has been named manager for the 526,000-name Ducks Unlimited file. Ducks Unlimited is a nonprofit membership organization