Topic

CRM

  • BORN AGAIN

    Is CRM dead? That was the first question on our minds when we contacted the participants in this year’s DIRECT roundtable. For months, we had been hearing

  • Customer Segmentation: Problems, Solutions

    Direct marketers have to understand the issues and choices involved in customer segmentation to be able to manage such a project effectively from conception

  • Popular Tastes

    The two initial incarnations of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico’s loyalty program might be characterized as a couple of successful shambles. Both Premia

  • The Joys of Remailing

    When PraiseBanners mailed 10,000 1999 catalogs last August, the religious pennants-and-flags company cut its storage fees and generated more than $25,000

  • Policy Change

    THEY MAY BE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD, but Liberty Group, a South African financial services company, faces a problem all too familiar to U.S. firms

  • Database Brain Drain

    Data analysts and direct marketing campaign developers will be in high demand when the economy turns around, according to DM executive recruiters. And

  • The Ring of Truth

    Feature Films for Families has built an 18 million-name database, consisting of 7 million customers and 11 million prospects. These prospects come pre-qualified,

  • Microsoft Builds Sales With Data Warehouse

    Microsoft, which was data-challenged only a few years ago, has boosted its consumer sales and taken a tentative stab at real-time data turnaround with

  • Make It Your MISSION

    Multichannel integration the combining of multiple selling channels and multiple marketing media is on everyone’s minds these days. And if it isn’t, it

  • Live From NCDM: AARP Targets Hispanic Seniors

    AARP is going after the Hispanic senior market with a mid-seven-figure initiative. In 2003, 4 million of AARP’s 130 million direct mail solicitations