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  • The Xoom Boom

    XOOM INC., San Francisco (www.xoom.com), runs a Web community with a difference: Unlike most such communities, like GeoCities and Tripod, a large part

  • If This Isn’t E-mail Heaven, It Must Be the Other Place

    I WOULDN’T DARE KNOCK e-mail as a communications tool. After all, one of my books is “Cybertalk That Sells” (whatever that’s supposed to mean).But my

  • Shopper’s Nightmare

    IF THERE’S A single cliche that drives us up the wall, it’s the one in which small store owners are hailed as the paragon of one-to-one marketing. We’ve

  • Cold Calls, Hot Topics

    DIRECT RESPONSE does better in business media than in consumer media. For business, it’s Horatio Alger; for consumers, film noir.Small business publication

  • Teen Idol

    HE’S YOUNG, GOOD-LOOKING and vicariously adored by approximately 4 million teenage girls. What more could Steve Kahn, the 33-year-old founder/CEO of Delia’s

  • Much Ado About Privacy

    Is it me or have we all started to go off the deep end a bit on the privacy issue?Of late, it seems nary a day goes by that someone from within or outside

  • People

    Mokrynski & Associates Inc., Hackensack, NJ, promoted Lori Sloves to account executive in the list brokerage division.DraftWorldwide, Chicago, named Kristi

  • DOWNSIZING

    Acxiom/DMI Lays Off 30 ACXIOM/DIRECT MEDIA, Greenwich, CT, laid off 30 employees-some 5% of its work force-last month. The terminations came as part of

  • Even Oscar the Grouch Responded

    THANKS TO a more kid-friendly newsletter-complete with value-added offers for moms-visits to Sesame Place by season-pass holders were up 15% this spring.The

  • World Wide Wisdom

    Do you want to compete effectively on the Internet’s expanding $100 billion economy? Do you know what makes a Web business model profitable? Can you harness