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  • Think Before You Contact

    In direct marketing the call to action is critical. If you capture how a prospect or customer historically responds via mail, the Web, inbound call, face

  • Viva Direct!

    WHILE YOU’RE RELAXING on your upcoming vacation to San Francisco for DMA06 (yes, I laughed maniacally when I typed the word we’ll be in a constant flurry

  • Nothing But the Truth

    WHEN A NEW WRITER ENTERS the copywriting game, he or she studies the masters to see what they did and how they approached their prospects. When I started

  • It Could Get Ugly

    RETAILERS THAT STILL USE all-HTML e-mail and there apparently are a lot of them are in for a horrendous online holiday shopping season, according to Epsilon

  • Google Aims for Main Street

    EVERYBODY’S CHASING SMALL businesses. On the user side, research suggests that anywhere from 50% to 80% of all online searches may have a local intent

  • LISTLINE

    NEW LISTS Stamats Business Media E-mail Several e-mail lists have been released by Stamats Business Media. Buildings magazine has the largest count with

  • Do You Know About SIFE?

    Once again it’s time to play “Figure out the ad.” You do have time for that in your busy day, don’t you?

    Whenever I see an ad headline like this one for an organization called SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise), I think of Robert Di Niro in the movie “Taxi Driver.” Are you talkin’ to me?

  • I Want My $2,000 in Pennies

    THIS PAST SUMMER McMurry, a midsize marketing agency in Phoenix, sent out a postcard announcing its pending reopening. As part of its campaign, it offered

  • Take It From the Top

    THERE’S AN OLD SAYING THAT IT’S LONELY AT the top. If that’s true, our agency leaders should look around. They’re in good company this issue. Direct talked

  • And on the Left Coast

    OgilvyOne’s San Francisco office is housed near Union Square at 111 Sutter St., the same art deco building where Sam Spade hung his hat in The Maltese