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Agencies

  • Belief Relief

    CUSTOM HAS IT that a column appearing in the year-end issue will either look ahead to the wonderful times to come or glance back at the dreadful times

  • Keeping the Growth Curve Growing

    IF YOU TAKE A LOOK at a lot of the leading catalogs in our industry, you’ll see that their growth curves aren’t what they should be. In some cases, growth

  • Tech Trading

    YOU’D THINK most companies would want to keep their research and development work top secret. But in today’s relentless quest for more profit centers,

  • Profitability of Web Marketing

    More than 22% of companies with a Web site do not generate any sales or leads from them. Among those that do, just over a third (34%) obtain less than

  • E-Haw!

    Direct marketers say Web sales are more profitable IT TOOK A WHILE, but direct marketers are finally starting to make money on their online sales.Nearly

  • Turning Up the Heat

    U.K. agency seeks greater competition in Britain’s postal services marketA FUNNY THING HAPPENED on the way to the market. Just when everyone in the United

  • MEDIA WATCH

    People? Who Needs People? The Sexiest Man Alive issue of People magazine took direct marketing’s name in vain. The recent “special double issue” dedicated

  • Harte-Hanks Buys IRG

    DIRECT MARKETING COMPANY Harte-Hanks Inc., San Antonio, has acquired Detroit-based Information Resource Group (IRG), a provider of business-to-business

  • customer contact management Picture Perfect

    Preferred Lease’s new mailing reaches its clients 18 times a year – and the targets actually look forward to receiving every one.That’s because the reminders

  • ONLINE MARKETING

    Abacus Cuts Staff, Will Reorganize Abacus Direct, a division of Internet advertiser DoubleClick Inc., has laid off some 20 employees as part of a strategic