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  • Meet the Broker

    HERE’S A STATISTIC THAT PROBABLY SHOULDN’T SURPRISE ANYONE. Of the list companies polled by Direct in its 2006 list use survey (see supplement following

  • Coupons Take to Third Screen

    Twelve Subway sandwich shop franchises in Buffalo, NY, broke a campaign in mid-August that offers consumers alerts and discount coupons via customers’ cell phones.

  • Pick the Winner – Oct. 2006 – An Astronomical Difference

    The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute is a nonprofit membership organization in California dedicated to finding signs of life

  • Timing is Everything

    IN COMEDY AND LIFE IN general timing is everything. Miss a beat, and a joke is ruined. Miss a bus, and you might never meet the love of your life. We

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    SAYS SHOULD KNOW BETTER More and more, DM guru Herschell Gordon Lewis sounds like the branding agencies we love to hate. When branding agencies pan DM

  • Book Report

    To a kid who likes to read, one of the most exciting days of the month at school is when the Scholastic Book Club fliers are distributed. We recently

  • LISTLINE

    NEW LISTS Harvest Nutritional Products This is a list of 5,139 consumers who bought dietary supplements in the second quarter. Customers’ average age

  • Box Office Buzz

    Whether it was talking cars, sword-wielding pirates or a red-caped flying superhero, consumers’ love affair with the movies reignited this year, ending

  • Golden Anniversaries

    History doesn’t record who the first marketer was to use an anniversary as a theme for a promotion, but I for one would kiss whoever it was smack on the

  • Michigan Casts Wide Do-Not-E-mail Net

    THE FIRST CHARGES BROUGHT under Michigan’s so-called child-protection do-not-e-mail law show that the state is casting a far wider net than Utah. Far