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  • Troubles Not Over for AFP

    American Family Publishers Inc. must have thought it was out of the woods. In March, it settled lawsuits by 31 states and the District of Columbia by

  • Universal Solution

    In one year, online sales for AnotherUniverse.com have grown from 3% to 25% of the catalog’s total business.Steve Milo, president of the Baltimore-based

  • Right Out of the Banner

    For the Mother’s Day selling season, 1-800-Flowers and Godiva Chocolatier launched Internet ads that allow consumers to order a limited number of products

  • PROMOTIONS: Paint It Yellow and Call It Cheese

    We finally finished digging through all the paraphernalia we brought back from the London DM Fair and came up with this neat item from Outside the Box

  • GO AHEAD They’re Listening

    If a tree falls in a forest and there is no speech recognition software around, does the impact of the tree on the ground make a sound?The question is

  • Back to the Drawing Board

    Back to the 50’s, a mail order catalog owned by Crowne Ventures Corp., Las Vegas, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 8. But this summer

  • The New PMG

    One thing’s for sure: The new postmaster general has a sense of humor.”I originally thought this was an early rate implementation gala,” quipped William

  • National Semiconductor Launches Online Services

    Surprising though it may seem, it took until just last month for one of the world’s leading technology companies to jump on the electronic ordering and

  • The Click-Through War

    Who’s got the better click-through rate on Web banner advertising-Flycast or DoubleClick? And should anyone even care?In March, RelevantKnowledge, Chicago,

  • People

    Yankelovich Partners Inc., Norwalk, CT, named Dr. Thomas E. Vasquez president/CEO. John Struck, former president/CEO, will become chairman of Yankelovich