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  • Campaign Index

    CONAGRA FOODS Shrek’s Quest for the Crown ConAgra Foods is running on an-pack promotion and instant-win game featuring six of its products tied to the

  • How Not to Deal With ISPs

    Online political group Truthout.org cried foul recently after Hotmail and AOL blocked its e-mail. At the same time, Yahoo! apparently has been shunting

  • Get to Know HVDMA

    WHAT Hudson Valley Direct Marketing Association MEMBERSHIP 51 corporate members (including agencies, lettershops and mailing list vendors)and 29 individual

  • Funky, Flirty, Loud and Lemony

    Today everyone has multiple storefronts. There’s your catalog cover, your Web site home page, and, if you’re a brick-and-mortar retailer, your physical,

  • Trade Off

    What gets promoted at retail is not by accident or left to the whims of individual store managers. A new study released in September by retail consultancy

  • Sox in Mouth

    Baseball’s 2007 World Series champions likely will have been crowned by the time you read this. Will the Boston Red Sox be the kings of the sandlot, or

  • Telereps, Save Your Breath

    In any sales or service situation it’s critical to listen, diagnose and encourage prospects to elaborate before persuading. One way to do this in telesales is to ask open-ended, consultative questions.

  • Goes Best With

    Visa has been trying to nudge its upscale customers to use their credit cards in connection with a wine pairing pilot program for the home and in local

  • Model Behavior

    Want to drive higher responses and find a wealth of viable prospects in your database?

    You’ll have to brave a bit of math. That is, you must segment your file and apply predictive models to it. And that’s a complex task. Above all, you have to know what models can and can’t do.

  • Pomp and Circumstance

    Experiential usually implies an event experienced by many. Wells Fargo’s horse-led coaches in the annual Tournament of Roses Parade this coming Jan. 1