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Credit Card Crisis
If you are a typical American consumer, you receive one or more credit card solicitations a month. And, if you are that typical American consumer, you
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Think About an Attitude
In our last issue we discussed how marketers are using order information as well as promotion history and demographic data to create segments and regulate
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Give Israelis What They Want: Free Stuff
Israelis love receiving presents, worship the word “free,” and long for the exhilarating feeling of knowing that we’ve won something others haven’t. We
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Malling The Teen Scene
Mall of America is looking for sponsors to fund a teen center in the Bloomington, MN, mega-mall. Management is talking with Pepsi-Cola and is expected
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Winter Chill
The upcoming postal rate hike, touted as the smallest in U.S. Postal Service history, came as a relief to some commercial mailers but leveled a crushing
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E! TV Hits Theaters
LOS ANGELES Tired of completing the same Jumbles as you wait for the feature film to start? Well, E! Entertainment Television is coming to the rescue.
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DM Transactions Up 25%
The total number of direct marketing strategic transactions in the first nine months of 1998 reached 1,325, up 25% from 1,064 during the same period last
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We Swear, It Was Thissssss Big
If you’re looking for a big fish story, don’t flounder around the Net. Swim on over to Trout Unlimited (www.tu.org), an organization-and Web site-dedicated
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This One’s for Free, Kid
Doctors and drug companies are always looking for ways to get their patients to keep taking their prescription medicines over time. One company has come
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So You Want to Be the Head Honcho?
BC has bought DFG, LMN has merged with XYZ, and so on. And most of these new entities need CEOs. Some bring in a new person, others promote from within.