Chief Marketer Staff
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Agencies
Live From DMA: DM Expenditures Surpass General Advertising: Study
If direct marketers needed a reason to puff out their chests, new economic figures have provided it: At $173.2 billion in expenditures predicted for 2007, DM will make up more than half of all U.S. advertising spending, according to new Direct Marketing Association research. Total advertising spending is forecast as $340.4 billion for this year.
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News Brief
Canon USA: struck a three-year marketing and sponsorship deal with the National Hockey League’s New York Islanders.
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Listline e-Newsletter 10/17/07
A total of 25,803 subscribers to Security Systems News are available from United Publications Inc. This title targets individuals concerned with the installation of security systems. The magazine reaches dealers, locksmiths, systems integrators and resellers at utility companies, in government, the military and other end users.
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Agencies
U.K. Postal Workers Call Off Strikes; Tentative Deal Reached
The Communications Workers Union, the labor group for U.K. postal workers, said Tuesday that it has called off strikes against Royal Mail as it mulls over a draft agreement reached last Friday.
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Agencies
Live From DMA07: Shelly Lazarus Crosses the Line
Shelly Lazarus well remembers when she first considered taking the top spot at OgilvyOne. Her friends thought she was crazy to leave her position managing the prestigious American Express account to delve into the world of direct marketing.
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Live From DMA07: DM Expenditures Surpass General Advertising: Study
If direct marketers needed a reason to puff out their chests, new economic figures have provided it: At $173.2 billion in expenditures predicted for 2007, DM will make up more than half of all U.S. advertising spending, according to new Direct Marketing Association research.
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Agencies
Live From DMA07: InterContinental Makes Over Loyalty Communications
Several years ago the InterContinental Hotels Group ripped up the strategy for its mailings to loyalty members and started from scratch.
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Email
Live from DMA07: Vendors Glad to be Out of “E-mail Ghetto”
E-mail companies exhibiting at the DMA07 fall conference in Chicago this week are much happier than they were at last year
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Agencies
CommercePlanet to Acquire Iventa Corp.
Commerce Planet Inc. will acquire Iventa Corp. for an undisclosed sum.
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Agencies
Harte-Hanks Signs Option to Acquire Information Arts
Harte-Hanks Inc. has signed an agreement giving it the option to acquire Information Arts Ltd., a U.K. analytics services provider, in the future.