Now or Never

| Tim Parry

It’s time to fess up to your dirty little secret that you don’t calculate lifetime value. Embarrassing, isn’t it? But you’re not alone. Some merchants

LISTINGS

| MCM staff

New lists Coastal Contractor and Digital Home Hanley Wood is offering controlled circulation lists of subscribers to its Coastal Contractor and Digital

Gupta Takes Another Chance at Super Bowl Ads

| Tim Parry

InfoUSA chairman Vin Gupta said the Super Bowl experience was a good one for his SalesGenie.com division. So good that he will again invest the reported $2.6 million for another 30-second spot on Feb. 3.

How to Follow Up with Gift Recipients

| Matt Morton

Now that the holiday rush has passed, you may have a little time to plan how to best contact all of those new names you have on your house file. One group that sometimes gets overlooked: the giftees (or ship-to

Robbing from the Rich

| Tim Parry

Money is tight for middle-income consumers. Can you rob the rich
to make up for that shortfall from the poor?

Self-Regulate or Die

| David Kanter

Imagine a world in which no transactional data can be rented or shared without written consent. Sound crazy? Well, it could happen. Last year, over a dozen states considered bills to restrict unsolicited mail and various forms of data sharing.