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  • Gift Card Spending to Top $50 Billion by 2012: Study

    Spending on gift cards is expected to hit $52.2 billion by 2012, up from $40 billion this year, according to a new Packaged Facts report.

  • HipCricket Hires VP Brand Solutions

    Mobile marketing company HipCricket Inc. has hired Steven Siegel as vice president of brand solutions.

  • News Brief

    WARNER BROS. is out with a sweepstakes tied to the DVD release of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” People can enter for a chance to win a trip for four to London, England to see the set of the “Harry Potter 6” movie. To enter, fans can visit

  • Postscripts

    BURGER KING: is distributing I-Dog toys as premiums in its Kids Meals.

  • Your Unsubscribe Handling is Probably Lame

    The vast majority of permission-based e-mail marketers miss huge opportunities in the way they handle opt-out requests, according to a new study.

  • Meet Forrester’s New E-mail Analyst: Julie Katz

    With the exception of clients, e-mail service providers take no one more seriously than the analysts who cover their industry.

    ESP executives turn to analysts for advice on what types of products, features and services they should be developing, and they hold their collective breath every year waiting for the analysts

  • Wednesday is Tops for Opens, Clicks: eROI

    Wednesday was the best day of the week in the third quarter of 2007 to send e-mail in terms of click and open rates, according to the most recent study by e-marketing services firm eROI.

  • Stupid PR Watch: The Pitch from Catatonia

    One of public relations professionals

  • Listline e-Newsletter 12/11/07

    Trinity Direct LLC has been retained to manage a list of contributors to
    the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal, a Roman Catholic
    organization.

  • Live From NCDM: Sadh Gets Back To (Data)Basics

    Customer relationship programs fail at an alarming rate — 70%, said Devyani Sadh, quoting industry statistics.

    So why bother? Why go through the headaches of setting up a database marketing system at all?