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  • Cable TV Viewers

    SINCE ITS June 1948 invention in Mahanoy City, PA, cable TV (then called community antenna television) has made it into 58.5% of all U.S. households,

  • No Two Alike

    PRINT TECHNOLOGY has allowed direct marketers to edge closer to the ideal of one-to-one marketing. Leading the charge is on-demand printing, which enables

  • SHOW AND TELL

    THE CONCEPT OF giving consumers “access” to their personal data-allowing them to see, and if necessary correct, information marketers possess about them-seems

  • People

    Time Life Inc., Alexandria, VA, named Amy Golden vice president, new product development, for its book unit.Epsilon, Burlington, MA, tapped Michael Iaccarino

  • USPS May Have Another $1 Billion Surplus

    Unless there’s a sudden and sharp decline in mail volume and revenue, the U.S. Postal Service appears to be heading toward its fourth $1 billion surplus

  • Gluttony Could Spoil Postal Feast

    YOU HAVE TO pity the U.S. Postal Service these days. Every time it turns around, there seems to be someone who wants to grab his share of the marbles.

  • Customers for Life: Applying Relationship Marketing

    THIS IS THE FINAL PART of an excerpt on relationship marketing from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing”

  • Homework Assignment

    IT’S FINE AND good that the market for selling office supplies to small home offices and businesses is growing by leaps and bounds. But how can direct

  • B-to-B DMers Suffer from Market Woes

    BUSINESS-TO-business DMers couldn’t escape the stock market’s downturns during the last three months.The 32 B-to-B direct marketers tracked by Gruppo,

  • Building Muscle

    POSING FOR a portrait in his company’s lavish Woodland Hills, CA lobby, Michael Carr, president and CEO of muscle-mag publisher Weider Publications, briefly