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  • A Day of Giving

    Miss those all-nighters you pulled in college? Looking for a way to give something back? Participate in this year’sCreateAthon. The event founded by Cathy

  • CAMPAIGN INDEX

    MASTERFOODS My Treasured Moments M&M’s will pay $31,000 to a couple if they can spend the next month communicating only with M&M’s candy. The campaign

  • BEYOND PAGE VIEWS

    Monitoring a Web site used to be a fairly straightforward proposition. Leading indicators like traffic, page views and sales gave a pretty good idea of how things were going. A more sophisticated check might involve observing how many visitors came through search results or affiliates rather than navigating directly to your page.

  • Get to KnowDMAW

    WHAT Direct Marketing Association of Washington MEMBERSHIP Approximately 1,200 members, including a wide range of mailers and vendors. One thing that

  • Count Off

    According to Colloquy’s loyalty program census, the average American household participates in 12 reward or recognition programs,

  • Everybody Run, Spidey’s Got aKnife???

    The world is divided into two types of people: those who like inserts, and those whowell, those who rip them out of magazines immediately. I have to admit,

  • All for One

    A business-to-business client recently wanted to run an integrated campaign with one clear goal: Get 500 qualified leads. Not 500 responses, mind you,

  • Take This Word Out of Your Dictionary

    Some years ago I was in the audience listening to a speaker who combined two rare traits: transmitting actually useful information, and entertaining as

  • Of Monkeys and Men

    In early May, researchers from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center found a possible correlation between human speech and the gestures of chimpanzees.

  • Inside Information

    Boardroom Inc. has based entire marketing campaigns on asking questions like,