Month: September 2008

• Agencies

  Hey, Big Givers

  Don’t panic but don’t sit back and do nothing, either. That was one of the key findings of recent research by Convio, Sea Change Strategies and Edge Research

• Listline

  NEW LISTS Addiction Professional Vendome Group has a postal list naming 22,846 subscribers to Addiction Professional magazine. There’s also a file of

• What Downturn?

  An economist looking only at direct marketers’ online spending patterns might think the country is in pretty good shape. Direct’s annual survey of e-commerce

• In Defense of Blacklists

  A recent horrific tragedy horrific tragedy falling miserably short in describing it, but words really do fail on this one should cause marketers to take

• Branding? OK…If You Own a Cattle Ranch

  Among the current hot buzzwords, branding is right up there with metrics and traction. Advertising agencies have pushed the notion of branding as the

• Better Late

  Don Mokrynski did not exactly radiate gratitude when he accepted the DMA List Leaders Award in 2004. It’s about bloody time, he said. Then he added: Ben

• Agencies

  No Place Like Home

  Rising costs and dwindling budgets are making it hard for business marketers to attend and run events. So instead of going on the road, many companies

• The Independents

  Walter KarlEdith RomanDirect MediaWill there be a single independent list firm standing by the time Vin Gupta is done? Good question. Gupta has said several

• Get the Word Out Early

  If you exhibit at trade shows as part of your business-to-business marketing strategy, you’re in good company. About 18% to 25% of the typical B-to-B

• The Citi Takes a Snooze

  Citibank started as City Bank of New York in 1812 and is now Citigroup, the world’s biggest financial services firm, with pretax profits of over $20 billion.