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Beckett Media Adds Major League Search
Sports publisher Beckett Media LP struck gold selling sports trading cards and collectibles on the Web way back in the rookie years of 1995. A decade
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Media on Media
Don’t bet the farm just yet on RSS, podcasts and other so-called Web 2.0 media. Marketers are interested in them, but not as much as they are in old-fashioned
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Diverging From Convergence
Before June’s Direct Marketing Days New York conference, I would have sworn that was a dead-and-gone term. But when one breakout session after another
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How CPA Deals Can Wreck Your Brand
Jane Kaiser is extremely wary of cost-per-action e-mail deals. CPA arrangements where merchants pay affiliates for each sale or action they generate are
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Pay Up or Shut Up
IT WAS THE END OF A TYPICAL airport-to-airport marathon. They were tearing up the remote lots at O’Hare, so it began with a Darwinian struggle for a parking
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CableOrganizer Gets Users Untwisted
In less than five years, Paul Holstein has gone from having a messy work space to heading an $8 million business. When Holstein a former consultant at
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TAKING IT TO THE BANK Nice story. Well told. And soooooo true (Loose Cannon, July). Banks are a rich source of stories like this I’ve just been through
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A Direct Mail Hero
Ralph Ginzburg, who died last month at age 76, was a publisher, a direct marketer, an author and a photographer. But he will be most remembered for the
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Rate Shock
MANY DIRECT MARKETERS ARE still in shock after seeing the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed rates for standard mail parcels weighing less than a pound. If