Search Results for: research

  • The Next Big Thing

    One advantage of being in this business is being exposed to what’s hot and what’s happening. Much of our exposure is a result of spending a lot of time

  • Gone to Hill and Back

    It’s a rare person who enjoys strapping a pair of waxed barrel staves to his feet and schussing down the side of a mountain; only 4% or 5% of the U.S.

  • DIRECTNEWSLINE

    Survey: Service Bureaus Hardly Perfect Database marketers are less than satisfied with their service bureaus, according to a recent survey by KnowledgeBase

  • COMING OF AGE

    J. Walker Smith, of market researchers Yankelovich Partners Inc., Norwalk, CT, says age mixes two things, life-stage and cohort, “a generational group

  • We Knew Them When

    A new study by Opinion Research Corp. International, Princeton, NJ, on behalf of Priceline.com, finds that seven Internet “mega-brands” have reached household-name

  • The Ecstasy and the Agony

    In our business, you have to have a champion at the top, or there will be no database marketing program. In most industries, database marketing is not

  • The New Direct Marketers

    MICHAEL COHEN IS manager of direct marketing operations for Showtime Networks Inc. in New York. Cohen’s job is pretty narrowly defined; a major part is

  • Contact Strategy: Segmenting Your Targets

    CONTACT STRATEGY DEALS with using data about customer purchases, promotion patterns, interests and preferences to not only profitably regulate the sequence

  • Future TENSE

    BETTER, FASTER and cheaper has long been the rallying cry that direct marketers trumpet when asked about the future. But opinions on how this will be

  • NEW LISTS

    Lobbyists in Washington, DC This file features the names of 16,904 representatives of major national associations, registered foreign agents, lawyers