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  • Political Suppression

    Shaun Dakin wants to give politicians a taste of their own medicine. Dakin, a database marketer, was once a volunteer political telemarketer. In 2006

  • 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.

  • Do You Do It?

    A Bill Me Later/Ipsos Insight survey found that more than 12 million Americans admitted to shopping online while on work-related conference calls.

  • Delta Ad Is Witty But Pointless

    One of the most common errors I encounter in ads that seem to need makeovers is a reluctance to accept that the largest word in the ad is the headline

  • 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

  • Forever Finicky

    9lives has resurrected Morris the Cat to be its mascot. Why not? Nothing else was working, as our story on page 10 explains. The new cat is actually the

  • Oops, She Did It Again

    Back in the day when Britney Spears didn’t wear wigs, the then-fresh young talent and face was apparently a hot property for product endorsements. Rewind

  • 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

  • Listline e-Newsletter 11/01/07

    Names and Addresses Inc. has been appointed to manage four files for
    Sporty’s. The two largest Sporty’s Tool Shop and Preferred Living
    catalogs offer 55,480 and 47,093 buyers from the last 12 months,
    respectively.

  • Stiles Hired at Goodmail, Company Confirms

    Charles Stiles, the former postmaster at AOL, has signed on with Goodmail Systems as the e-mail authentication firm’s new vice president of worldwide business development, Goodmail has confirmed.