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  • Cashing In Your Chips

    MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS are dominating many sectors of the U.S. economy, and the direct marketing industry, in particular. Everywhere you turn, somebody

  • Living Off the Dead

    OFFICIALLY, the Dead have been dead for more than three years-but it seems that Grateful Dead direct sales may live on and on.The durable rock band itself

  • Contact Strategy: Segmenting Your Targets

    CONTACT STRATEGY DEALS with using data about customer purchases, promotion patterns, interests and preferences to not only profitably regulate the sequence

  • The Check Is the Mail

    THROUGH A solicitation effort printed onto a double postcard refund check statement, Publishers Clearing House not only realized a cost savings, but opened

  • Who’s Got the Rights? It Might Not Be You

    JENNY WAS BUSY manipulating one of the latest photos her agency had purchased from a photographer. Working diligently at the computer, she sat back and

  • Sprint Calls on B-to-B Customers

    SURE, A DIME a minute sounds good. But try two free CD-ROMs packed with 15 million prospecting names, free long distance calling on Fridays and a business

  • Cut and Paste

    WHEN MY SISTER and I were little, our mother used to save all the holiday catalogs she received. On Christmas, she would take them out and give them to

  • Newlyweds

    RECENT POLITICAL developments are making marriage a legal hotbed for newlyweds and would-be newlyweds. Advocates of same-sex marriage such as the Human

  • Give the USPS an Incentive to Succeed

    THESE ARE CHANGING-and sometimes troubling-times. The grand scheme of postal things that we’ve come to know since the 1970 legislative reorganization

  • New Investor Product Group Is High on DM

    FINANCIAL COMMUNICATIONS CO., a newly formed group of financial magazines and services, is taking its first steps into DM.In September the firm established