Article: DMA revamps show with new, renamed tracks; In-depth research prompts changes that emphasize measurement, return on investment.(Special Report: Direct Marketing)(Direct Marketing Association)

Byline: CAROL KROL

Sir Richard Branson, the flamboyant chairman of U.K.-based Virgin Group of Cos., may be getting top billing as a keynote speaker at next week's Direct Marketing Association annual conference (Oct. 14-19) in San Francisco, but analytics takes center stage in the educational sessions at this year's confab.

Measurement has always had a spot in the traditional direct marketer's tackle box, but now that major marketers have increasingly trained their eyes on it, measurement and ROI have gone mainstream, rising to the surface as one of the most important-and vexing-issues for marketers today.

More than half of marketers (53%) say ...

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