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  • Dissent Over Incentives

    THERE ARE worse ways to build a database online than with bribes, especially if a site’s purpose is data collection first and e-commerce second.But greasing

  • Living in an Opt-in Environment

    SURPRISES in legislation are rare. Which makes a recent event in the European Parliament quite unusual. Minutes before a debate on the distance selling

  • Now Buy the Vest

    IN AN EPISODE in the second volume of “Maus,” the withering account of his family’s Holocaust experience, Art Spiegelman is approached by a man who tells

  • Their Time Has Come

    JUDGING BY the amount of e-mail being sent, traditional mailers and their list companies can stop preparing for the future. The future is here.The percentage

  • Do You Really Want to Wait for a Data Warehouse?

    WE WERE RECENTLY asked to critique a plan for a system that would support database marketing. The proposal included a corporate data warehouse that would

  • Where Somebody Knows Your Name

    CO-OP FIRM Money Mailer L.L.C., which delivers 14 million pieces to “occupants” eight times a year, is venturing into a new program that targets well-off

  • Online Marketers Embrace Privacy Standards

    IT APPEARS THAT online marketers may have finally gotten the message and are starting to post privacy policies on their Web sites.A draft study by a Georgetown

  • The Importance of Being Integrated

    CUSTOMER relationship management is one of the most talked-about topics today. But what constitutes CRM? How did it evolve and what promise does it hold

  • Agents of Change

    LONG-TERM loyal customers are more valuable than other customers. They generally buy more often, spend more, have a higher retention and referral rate,

  • DATA DAM

    THE SPATE OF recently introduced privacy legislation may have a flag-waving, feel-good aura about it, but be alert. The direct marketing industry, experts