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  • The Sweet, Sticky Smell of Success

    Do you know about Diet Coke and Mentos? It’s not the latest weight-loss craze. It’s a Mr. Wizard science experiment gone berserk, and it’s currently storming

  • Weird But True

    Here’s the clue: Every day in this town, a hanged man proclaims his innocence in the only way a dead man can. Since 1877, his handprint on his cell wall

  • Motivational therapy

    Whenever you invite someone to discuss their whether it’s at the water cooler, around the dinner table or in a open-ended survey question, you have to

  • Hired Fans

    As it prepared to debut its new video service last winter, Cingular Wireless had a challenge: explaining and demonstrating the everyday relevance of Cingular

  • The New E-zine Metric

    WHEN E-ZINES first came out, chief marketing officers looked at the reports and were excited about using open rates and click-throughs to measure their

  • Revised Curriculum

    The folks at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management must be auditing direct marketing classes at their parent school. For starters, they’ve

  • Full Disclosure

    The U.S. Postal Service has a problem: It needs to improve customer relations. But that’s a tall order given the uncertainty of postal reform legislation passage, the new rate case and the promise of large annual increases because of the escrow account issue.

  • Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail

    The Home Marketplace Welcomes Summer As summer gets into full swing and Americans take their celebrations outdoors to enjoy the warm weather, the latest catalog from The Home Marketplace arms shoppers with handy products for backyard gatherings. …