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Agencies

  • Customers for Life: Applying Relationship Marketing

    THIS IS THE FINAL PART of an excerpt on relationship marketing from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing”

  • Splinter Groups

    SOME FOLKS can’t leave well enough alone. When Nancy Miller, marketing analyst for Parkersburg, WV-based Woodcraft Supply, first started using a neural-network-based

  • No Two Alike

    PRINT TECHNOLOGY has allowed direct marketers to edge closer to the ideal of one-to-one marketing. Leading the charge is on-demand printing, which enables

  • 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

  • Long-Term Fix

    WHAT IT COST to keep a customer, and what’s it worth over the long haul? These are two of the most important questions DMers can ask themselves these

  • DRTV-Blocking V-Chip Zapped

    THE DRTV and advertising industries applauded the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association’s (CEMA’s) decision to drop plans to endorse V-chips

  • R.I.P. = RIP-Off: Everybody Is Cashing in on Diana

    I WONDER WHAT so many of the collectibles marketers would have done if Princess Diana hadn’t been killed in that car crash.Boy, was Shakespeare wrong

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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