Live from DMA06: Marketers as High-Tech Storytellers

| Brian Quinton

(Direct) San Francisco–Web 2.0 will be about telling stories in the service of marketing to consumers: That’s the message that attendees at the Direct Marketing Association’s annual meeting heard in a keynote speech from Michael Davis,

3Q Sales Up at Grainger

| MCM staff

Lake Forest, IL-based W.W. Grainger reported a 6% increase in third-quarter sales, to $1.5 billion for the three months ended Sept 30.

New Feature! Industry Insight

| MCM staff

This month we introduce Industry Insight, courtesy of NextAction, a Westminster, CO-based database marketing services provider. Each month NextAction will share sales and channel data compiled from more than 1,100 multichannel merchants