Q&As

Equifax Inc. posted net income of $78.9 million for the third quarter, a 26% increase over $62.5 million in the prior-year period.

The Indian government this week approved amendments to its Information Technology Act of 2000 aimed at making life more difficult for online criminals, according to the Asia Times.

CVS has agreed to pay $152,000 in civil penalties after it violated a previous settlement agreement with New York State related to sweepstakes offers.

It was a close call, but Kashi Co. head food developer Jeff Grogg can forgo adding cardboard boxes to his diet.

HarperCollins and social media company FanLib have teamed up to launch an online writing contest that dangles a chance to publish one’s work as an e-book.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 12,000 for the first time last Thursday. Two days earlier, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the United States has now officially

When it comes to analytics, is there such a thing as too much information? Very much so, and here’s a nifty trick to find out if you’re going too far: “If you can’t remember all your metrics, you are probably measuring too many,” says Bruce Detweiler Breckbill, vice president of direct sales for Lehman’s, a Kidron, OH-based marketer that sells a variety of household products that don’t rely on electricity.

What causes you to wake up at 3 a.m. in a sweat?

For marketers, it may be response rates and clickthrough rates,

For CFOs, it’s cash flow and net asset value.

Last issue’s article, “Is Marketing ROI Dead?”, discusses how companies need to begin shifting their ROI viewpoint from campaign and product silos to a more holistic marketing performance management strategy. It advises on two key steps to begin this evolution. This article will elaborate on the first of those steps – how to determine the right marketing metrics to measure.

Today we meet Michael Natoli, account executive for insert media brokerage at Leon Henry Inc. Natoli has a degree in geography from Syracuse University, and he uses that knowledge in a way he never anticipated. He landed his first job in direct marketing at Leon Henry eight years ago, after working a few odd jobs.