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  • Measuring the Loyalty Effect

    ONE OF THE best books I’ve ever read on the subject of customer retention is “The Loyalty Effect” by Frederick F. Reichheld (Harvard Business School Press).Many

  • People

    Time Life Inc., Alexandria, VA, named Amy Golden vice president, new product development, for its book unit.Epsilon, Burlington, MA, tapped Michael Iaccarino

  • Cable TV Viewers

    SINCE ITS June 1948 invention in Mahanoy City, PA, cable TV (then called community antenna television) has made it into 58.5% of all U.S. households,

  • The Renaissance in B-to-B Lists

    JOB TITLE? Business class? Sales volume? Business-to-business mailers are no longer satisfied with those old-time list selects alone. Now they want to

  • RECRUIT THE A-TEAM

    IT’S GENERALLY believed that after a certain amount of time spent working the phones, telephone representatives burn out. I maintain that reps are more

  • USPS May Have Another $1 Billion Surplus

    Unless there’s a sudden and sharp decline in mail volume and revenue, the U.S. Postal Service appears to be heading toward its fourth $1 billion surplus

  • After Delays, E-centives Emerge on the Web

    HERE’S A NICE little tale about the importance of keeping on your toes when doing Web marketing.Bethesda, MD-based Emaginet (www.emaginet.com), founded

  • Building Muscle

    POSING FOR a portrait in his company’s lavish Woodland Hills, CA lobby, Michael Carr, president and CEO of muscle-mag publisher Weider Publications, briefly

  • Directnewsline

    USPS Unveils Holiday Mail Plans THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE, with the aid of major mailers, has developed fall and holiday mailing plans that it hopes will

  • Spare Parts Central

    HYUNDAI Motor America hopes to sell spare parts and build its $150-million-a-year North American business through an extranet system for dealers.The Korean