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  • The Two Lives of Marvin, the Deli King

    Last month, I had to shoot a photograph in the rustic part of Connecticut for a promotion. It was a cool and beautiful Saturday.At lunch I drove around

  • The Sector in the Interactive Mask

    HEADY STOCK GAINS by three companies involved in interactive communications are masking an otherwise lackluster year for publicly traded DM service suppliers.The

  • It’s About Time

    If you feel like you’re caught in a time warp lately, welcome to the club. In every industry, markets are merging, separating, growing in unpredictable

  • Virtual Relief

    THE U.S. HOUSE of Representatives passed by a voice vote the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which would not only place a three-year moratorium on new Internet

  • Instant Gratification

    WOULDN’T IT BE nice if charities that help disaster victims could get donations right after TV viewers had their hearts tugged by footage of the devastation

  • I Can’t Even Be Bothered to Write a Headline

    I’M NOT IN the mood. I awoke this morning to the sound of former Partridge Family member Danny Bonaduce (now a DJ on New York’s Big-105) announcing over

  • 100 years of Promotion

    If some 21st century Durkheim wanted insight on how Americans lived in this century, he could do worse than visit the Pillsbury archives, Bake-Off division.

  • Agencies: Who’s News

    Premium Big Snaps Up Top Boutique Aligning one of the hottest promotion agencies with one of the fastest-growing firms in specialty and premium product

  • True True North

    True North Communications, New York, has grouped its promotion agencies including Market Growth Resources, Wilton, CT, and McCracken Brooks Communications,

  • CROSSFIRE

    THE LIST BUSINESS is facing many of the problems it encountered last year, with a couple of new twists-intensified merger activity, increased client demands