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  • Wild Lobbies

    ATLANTA – Holiday Inn is giving kids and families the world this summer – all 360 degrees of it.Building on its kids-eat-free promos, the lodging giant

  • 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.

  • Conspiracy Revealed: Intrigue-ing DM Campaign

    He cover for the Oldsmobile Intrigue/”X-Files” movie direct mail piece was a plain brown envelope, which makes sense, given the television show’s bent

  • Chicago Internet Guru Jay Gondelman Dies

    Jay Gondelman, the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing’s interactive guru and partner in Visionautics Inc., died in June of cancer at 50. According

  • 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

  • Blue’s Clues Land on Campbell Soup and in Subway

    Those blue paw prints of Nickelodeon’s newest hit character, Blue, are turning up with two additional partners this summer and fall.Blue, the animated

  • Relationship Marketing and the New DM

    This December McGraw-Hill will publish the third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing.” Over the next few issues we’ll offer

  • Net Tax Relief Bill Gains in House

    LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO stop state and local governments from imposing new taxes on Internet transactions for at least three years and creating a special

  • Call It What It Is

    He propose that articles about spam in the press and other media ought to be called spam as well. They’re about as prevalent and intrusive. Case in point: