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  • Introducing the Web Call Center

    Then the call center at IDT Corp. gets swamped, the Hackensack, NJ telecom company turns to Communications Service Center, a Margate, FL service bureau

  • P-O-P Gains, But Girds for Tobacco Withdrawal

    Marketers last year spent $13.1 billion on point-of-purchase displays, an increase of 5 percent above 1996.Some segments had growth rates that exceeded

  • Metal Mettle

    Remember when it used to really mean something if you had a gold credit card? And you were really important if you were approved for platinum ?Those days

  • Envoy Drives Correspondence Course

    We feel toward serial mailings the way most people feel toward serial killers. However, unlike serial killers, serial mailings are sometimes amusing.

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Hartford/New Haven, CT

    Hartford and New Haven supermarkets are big on service and specialty departments. Seventy percent of stores in the area have prepared-food departments,

  • Rapp Collins Tops in Billings

    Rapp Collins Worldwide, with $1.615 billion in billings in 1997, leads the list of top 10 agencies, according to the Direct Marketing Association’s annual

  • Dream Team

    SAN FRANCISCO – Sega of America last month announced agency assignments for the $100 million launch of its Dreamcast video game console, slated for introduction

  • Casting the Net

    Ed Mufson’s company is the ’90s version of the fabled DM kitchen table start-up. A year ago, Mufson, who’s been in retail for 30 years, was thinking of

  • People

    DCI Marketing, Milwaukee, promoted David Steeno to senior account service coordinator for its Detroit office, and hired Mike Haizel as physical distribution

  • Singing In Tune

    CDnow, the Internet’s top music store, and MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, Inc., announced a groundbreaking, three-year integrated marketing agreement