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Building Muscle
POSING FOR a portrait in his company’s lavish Woodland Hills, CA lobby, Michael Carr, president and CEO of muscle-mag publisher Weider Publications, briefly
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Measuring the Loyalty Effect
ONE OF THE best books I’ve ever read on the subject of customer retention is “The Loyalty Effect” by Frederick F. Reichheld (Harvard Business School Press).Many
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Spare Parts Central
HYUNDAI Motor America hopes to sell spare parts and build its $150-million-a-year North American business through an extranet system for dealers.The Korean
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Gluttony Could Spoil Postal Feast
YOU HAVE TO pity the U.S. Postal Service these days. Every time it turns around, there seems to be someone who wants to grab his share of the marbles.
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Homework Assignment
IT’S FINE AND good that the market for selling office supplies to small home offices and businesses is growing by leaps and bounds. But how can direct
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Two Seattle Utilities Get Bright Idea
WHILE MARKETERS gathered in Seattle for the National Center for Database Marketing conference and listened to theory and case studies, two of the state’s
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Chugging Along
Jim Page doesn’t think much about the breakfast table these days. Page is the ringleader for Dean Food Co.’s $13 million rollout of Milk Chug, resealable
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Sound & Vision
BOSTON ACOUSTICS INC., Peabody, MA, makes high-end speakers for car and home. With the rise of the PC, it hit upon a new market: computer speakers. But
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A Gem Too Good to Pass Up
FOR THE PAST several months, a U.S. Postal Service mailer workgroup has been attempting to identify areas that could benefit most from capital investment.The