Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  Telemarketers Working for Nonprofits Must Keep No-Call Lists

  Proposed changes in the Federal Trade Commission’s telemarketing regulations, announced yesterday, will now require for-profit companies that do telemarketing

• Agencies

  USPS Signs Tentative Pact With Two Unions

  The U.S. Postal Service and two of its largest employee unions, the American Postal Workers Union and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, have reached tentative agreement on a two year contract.

• Three Plead Guilty in Subscription Fraud Case

  Defendants used stolen names, sent bogus mail pieces to list managers

• Online Revenue Grows at Last

  Showing the first signs of growth in a year in a half, Internet advertising revenue totaled $1.47 billion for the third quarter of 2002, according to

• Catalog Sales Drop, Overall Rise For JCPenney

  J. C. Penney Co. Inc., the cataloger/retailer based in Plano, TX Reported that catalog revenues dropped 7.2% to $436 million for the month ended Nov.

• Executives Depart MKTG to Start DM Business

  Two vice presidents at MKTG Services Inc. have left the firm to open a new direct marketing company.

• Lillian Vernon Posts $4 Million Loss for 3rd Quarter

  Lillian Vernon Corp. suffered a net loss of $4.1 million for the third quarter. Last year, the net profit was $2.6 million for the same period. The company

• Yankelovich: Consumers Seek Surety, Comfort and Value in 2003

  Marketers who don

• Marketers to Increase Budgets in 2003: Survey

  More than half of all online and offline marketers anticipate marketing budget increases during 2003, while only 6% say their budgets will shrink, according

• Coldwater Creek Reports Strong Fall Season

  Coldwater Creek Inc. reported large third-quarter increases in net sales and income, with sizable boosts coming from the retail and Internet segments.