GLG News by Direct Mail Marketing Experts (North America)

- Plastic Cards as access devices to various types of payment accounts will continue to be important but will increasingly give way to alternative access methods - These alternative access methods will include devices such as smart-card enabled devices such as cell phones, watches or other devices and...

With 45 percent of contingent sales identified as "short sales," or sales in which the lender will be required to accept less than the principal balance owed, we can't expect investor demand to grow. Investors currently have other more liquid and stable securities to place their bets, and...

MGA's can seek out better lines and Company deals. MGA's can seek out training to meet the changing demands. One very specific area an MGA can capitalize on is TECHNOLOGY.

While advancements in technology can allow for the ultimate online social experience, the mob doesn't care about technology.  But what do they care about?

The causes of food cost inflation aren't about to go away.  Demand in emerging economies for a higher quality and more varied diet will increase, and ethanol production will make it more difficult for producers to respond quickly to the market. 

- The economy is working in favor of McDonalds. - Recent menu additions (coffee) are adding to average check.

Sure, Google gets the best out of the deal with a weakened Yahoo and a non-strengthened Microsoft, but I'm not sure if this deal would have been good for Microsoft anyway.  They showed a lack of brutish eagerness that has hurt Yahoo, near fatally, and that hurt could help Microsoft climb up the...

Buyers beware is an understatement with Sprint Nextel.  They have so many gashes in their underbelly that I have difficulty seeing how they could be a worthwhile acquisition, unless the price drops much further.  T-Mobile is not in a powerful position in the market, and combining the two seems...

Yahoo's move into Yahoo Glue is a smart concession in the basic textual search world and a desire to innovate the search experience.  Good for them.  But this is a complicated delivery in a world dominated by simple user experiences, and that is what Yahoo must concentrate on in order to succeed....

Employees posting full profiles at work certainly poses dangers to employees, should they be arrogantly drawn and rudely sketched. But this and other elements of the Social Web allow for benefits to both employee and employer.  More importantly, this two-way conversation is inevitable, so it is...