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  • DMA Adopts Advance Consent Guidelines

    The Direct Marketing Association, reacting to episodes in which consumers are charged for products and services they never agreed to buy, has adopted

  • letters to the editor

    NO COMPLAINTS, PLEASE After reading the recent article on the Alan Drey closure (List Report, DIRECT, Nov. 1), we find it interesting to note that Mr.

  • DMA Offers Interim Wireless Service

    The Direct Marketing Association has launched a wireless suppression service to help its members avoid making unsolicited calls to cell phones. But the

  • Direct Hit: Water for Life

    If you are among the many people invited to a broker breakfast with Mo Moss this month, we urge you to skip it. It’s not that convicted felons have nothing

  • Pushing the Envelope: Sorry No Trust Funds Here

    As I write this, I suspect I’m in the same state as many of you: swamped while getting ready for the Direct Marketing Association’s annual hootenanny

  • How to Solve the CRM Puzzle

    Customer relationship management has been around long enough that companies have begun codifying best-practice strategies. A recent study from Carlson

  • JPMorgan Buys Arizona Mail Order

    JPMorgan Partners LLC bought the remaining Fingerhut Cos. assets from Federated Department Stores Inc. last month in a nine-figure deal. The new entity,

  • Creative Approach

    The problem software developer Adobe Systems Inc. faced in rolling out its InDesign product was one marketers dealt with long before anyone ever knew

  • DIRECT Listline

    Professional Airline Pilots This file of 100,000 pilots at their home address is now managed by VentureDirect Worldwide. The list has been culled from

  • DMA to Back Anti-Spam Law

    In a stark departure from tradition, Direct Marketing Association president and CEO H. Robert Wientzen says the DMA would support anti-spam legislation.