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  • United We Stand

    independent bookstores, which have been slowly losing ground to retail store chains and online sellers like Amazon.com, will soon be able to fight back.

  • Ready, Fire, Aim

    too many companies are jumping into the Internet without considering some direct marketing basics. For one thing, they have thrown the customer overboard

  • SWING SET

    Independent voters are increasingly important to politicians, but it takes good data mining skills to reach them.A generation ago, reaching out to independent

  • Ice Storm

    Mailing list brokers are not comfortable working with e-mail service providers – and the feeling is mutual. Their differences came out last month during

  • Fulfillment 101: Online orders present new distribution challenges

    Judging by studies from both Forrester Research and Jupiter Communications and a host of horror stories from this past Christmas, the No. 1 problem with

  • New York Senate Gets Tough on Privacy

    Passes telemarketing bill; mulls one on insurance ID.The New York State Senate has passed one bill and is considering another that would toughen the state’s

  • Brooklyn Union Powers Up: Online e-BRCs help energy supplier generate new leads

    brooklyn Union has found a major new lead-generation tool – an online business reply card connected to its Web site. Web responses accounted for 10% of

  • BURNED AGAIN: Lots of Hits

    First, Net surfers were tricked by scam artists. Next, call-girl services. Now perhaps the ultimate mis-users of the Web have been uncovered.More than

  • Opt-out Option

    New bill requires financial institutions to obtain customer permission to share dataBanks and financial institutions would be prohibited from sharing

  • Spinning the Web Across the Pond

    You’ve heard the old saying about the United States and Britain being two countries separated by one language. On my latest trip to London for the International