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  • Electronic Promotions Threaten DM Couponing

    WHILE DIRECT MAIL remained a favored method of receiving samples or coupons, ranking second only behind free-standing inserts in newspapers, its popularity

  • SHOW AND TELL

    THE CONCEPT OF giving consumers “access” to their personal data-allowing them to see, and if necessary correct, information marketers possess about them-seems

  • THE NET PROWLER

    CLICKING UPSTREAM In the June issue we covered Narrative Communications Corp. (www.narrative.com) of Waltham, MA and its Enliven banner-ad technology,

  • Hey, What Ya Wanna Know?

    THE PRIVACY PUNDITS are whining about direct marketers in general-and database marketers in particular-having too much of the public’s personal information

  • Europe Calling

    TO JUDGE BY the way share prices for the sector are dropping, the boom in telemarketing in the United States is over. Whether this is the result of overoptimistic

  • ONE AT A TIME

    WHETHER YOU LABEL today’s marketing models as relationship, database, loyalty, retention or one-to-one is not of great consequence. They all express the

  • Singing a National Anthem

    AFTER AN ENCOURAGING test launch in California and the Pacific Northwest, cataloger Moon Song went national last month with a 100,000-piece mailing.Owner

  • B-to-B Catalogs’ Online Customer Service Disappoints

    Business-to-business catalogers have failed to integrate their fulfillment and customer service operations with their online marketing efforts.That’s

  • Customer-Targeted Marketing Communications

    THIS IS PART three of an excerpt from a chapter on relationship marketing, from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct