Chief Marketer Staff

• Live from ACC: Bezos Spills the Beans on Amazon

  (Catalog Age)–You might think that building a $3.1 billion business in seven years would be a complex, confounding matter. But Jeff Bezos, founder/CEO

• ND Voters Reject Financial Info Opt-Out Law

  Voters in North Dakota overwhelmingly rejected a law that allowed banks to sell customer information without written permission, an action that could lead to stricter financial privacy laws, according to news reports.

• Profitable Online Retailing on The Rise: Forrester

  In 2001, 56% of retailers reported profitable online operations, up from 43% in 2000.

• Consumer Direct Closes on Lending Services Acquisition

  Consumer Direct of America has closed on its acquisition of Lending Services Corp. of Las Vegas

• Short Cuts

  Save the Children has tapped Westboro, MA-based Ascential Software Corp. to provide it with software to ensure data quality in its donor database.

• Live from ACC: Redesign Gives New Life to New Life Systems

  (Catalog Age)–The New Life Systems catalog is a testament to the power of creative. Despite mailing on Sept. 15–a scant four days after the terrorist

• Live from ACC: Wientzen on What Catalogers Should Do Next

  (Catalog Age)–Get back to prospecting: That’s the message from Direct Marketing Association president and CEO H. Robert Wientzen. In an exclusive interview

• Fingerhut Deal Finalized

  Federated Department Stores agreed Tuesday to sell major chunks of its Fingerhut Cos. subsidiary to Fingerhut’s former owner, Ted Deikel, reports said late Tuesday.

• Live from ACC: Signs of a Rebound

  (Catalog Age)–How much do you think consumer catalog sales declined last year? Five percent? Seven percent? More? According to the Spring 2002 Catalog

• Live From ACC: Wientzen Tackles Postal Reform, Slow Catalog Growth in Keynote

  The postal reform bill about to be introduced in the House of Representatives “is a mixed bag,” H. Robert Wientzen, the Direct Marketing Association CEO, said in a keynote address this morning at the Annual Catalog Conference in Chicago.