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  • TIMELINE

    June 16, 2006 HORMEL FOODS CORP., the maker of Spam, agreed to a lawsuit settlement that would allow NetBop Technologies, a small Welsh technology firm,

  • DMers Losing Interest in AOL Addresses

    If AOL wants legitimate marketers to avoid contacting its subscribers, the plan is starting to work. E-mailers are preparing for a serious drop in performance

  • Signature Event

    According to Tuff Stuff sports memorabilia magazine, the most-popular sports collectible is the trading card. The second-most popular type of collectible

  • The Hidden Gems in E-mail Responses

    Any DMer knows response management is critical to a campaign’s success. But in e-mail marketing, overseeing messages from those who don’t buy is just

  • Subway Freshens Kids Marketing

    Subway is extending its reach to tweens by way of a summer tie-in with Vans. The QSR is building out its kids marketing under new management that took

  • The New E-zine Metric

    WHEN E-ZINES first came out, chief marketing officers looked at the reports and were excited about using open rates and click-throughs to measure their

  • Revised Curriculum

    The folks at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management must be auditing direct marketing classes at their parent school. For starters, they’ve

  • Full Disclosure

    The U.S. Postal Service has a problem: It needs to improve customer relations. But that’s a tall order given the uncertainty of postal reform legislation passage, the new rate case and the promise of large annual increases because of the escrow account issue.

  • E-mailer Asks Permission Again

    The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society just saw its e-mail list slashed from 33,636 addresses to 4,510 and the organization’s e-mail director is happy about

  • Motivational therapy

    Whenever you invite someone to discuss their whether it’s at the water cooler, around the dinner table or in a open-ended survey question, you have to