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  • E-mail Takes a Byte Out of Postal

    NOT ALL THAT long ago, many list pros questioned whether e-mail files were a viable-let alone successful-enterprise. Now, as revenues rocket, that question

  • Reel Deals

    Austin Powers 2 (New Line Cinema) Release Date: Summer 1999 Anticipated Rating: PG-13 Starring: Mike Meyers Top line: Meyers writes the script for the

  • If This Isn’t E-mail Heaven, It Must Be the Other Place

    I WOULDN’T DARE KNOCK e-mail as a communications tool. After all, one of my books is “Cybertalk That Sells” (whatever that’s supposed to mean).But my

  • Shopper’s Nightmare

    IF THERE’S A single cliche that drives us up the wall, it’s the one in which small store owners are hailed as the paragon of one-to-one marketing. We’ve

  • Cash From Chaos

    MOST DATABASE records can be ranked alphabetically or numerically by information in their fields. Related data, such as ZIP codes, can be clustered for

  • The Good Guys Get Some

    The Coupon Information Corp. recently awarded its Gold Medallion to IRS Special Agent Paul Deery and Assistant United States Attorney Paul Sarmousakis,

  • The Xoom Boom

    XOOM INC., San Francisco (www.xoom.com), runs a Web community with a difference: Unlike most such communities, like GeoCities and Tripod, a large part

  • People

    Mokrynski & Associates Inc., Hackensack, NJ, promoted Lori Sloves to account executive in the list brokerage division.DraftWorldwide, Chicago, named Kristi

  • DOWNSIZING

    Acxiom/DMI Lays Off 30 ACXIOM/DIRECT MEDIA, Greenwich, CT, laid off 30 employees-some 5% of its work force-last month. The terminations came as part of

  • Cold Calls, Hot Topics

    DIRECT RESPONSE does better in business media than in consumer media. For business, it’s Horatio Alger; for consumers, film noir.Small business publication