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Agencies

  • 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

  • Sound & Vision

    BOSTON ACOUSTICS INC., Peabody, MA, makes high-end speakers for car and home. With the rise of the PC, it hit upon a new market: computer speakers. But

  • Two Seattle Utilities Get Bright Idea

    WHILE MARKETERS gathered in Seattle for the National Center for Database Marketing conference and listened to theory and case studies, two of the state’s

  • Tracking May Avoid Customer Defection

    IT’S POSSIBLE FOR a company to show increases in both revenue and its customer base and still have a poor retention program.That’s the opinion of Carla

  • This Month in 1992

    AS PART OF DIRECT’s 10th anniversary celebration, over the next four issues we’ll share what was making direct marketing headlines during our first decade

  • Telecom Tune-up

    BELL ATLANTIC is rolling out a business-to-business retention program in New England that had its origins in New York in 1995. The telecommunications

  • Anniversary Songs

    TWO VENERABLE LIST companies are celebrating their 20th anniversaries this month-proof that there is such a thing as stability in direct marketing.One

  • I Went to College for This???

    UNTIL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, I had planned to write a nice docile column about branding successes.Maybe I’ll be docile next issue.A few months ago, I received