Agencies

• Agencies

  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

• Agencies

  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

• Agencies

  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

• Agencies

  100 Voodoo Dolls to Palo Alto?

  IT’S NOT EVERY direct marketer that would have the hubris to run a “Build a shrine to us on your Web site” contest. But then, not every direct marketer

• Agencies

  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

• Agencies

  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

• Agencies

  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

• Agencies

  DM Goes Global With Charles Prescott

  In July the Direct Marketing Association named Charles A. Prescott, formerly of The Reader’s Digest Association, as its first vice president of international

• Agencies

  Home Again

  SWIMMING POOLS and golf courses. Dance lessons and card games. Cookouts and crafts classes.It may sound like a summer camp or a luxury resort, but it’s

• Agencies

  B-to-B Sales Slowly Rising

  LIKE THE TORTOISE that won the race, business-to-business sales are moving ahead slowly but surely, according to results of a survey presented at this