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  • Media Mix

    IT’S LITTLE WONDER that our media-rich world drowns out the impact of a single ad or direct response piece. Integrated marketing, which uses a number

  • DIRECT Wins Neal Certificate

    DIRECT WON a certificate of merit for best single issue of a magazine in the 45th Annual Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Awards competition. The certificate

  • Fulfilling Work

    IN PHYSICAL circles, the out-of-control assembly line is a staple. Lucille Ball’s conveyer-belt misadventures represent its high point, and shows ranging

  • In Web We Trust

    MOST COMPANIES recognize the Internet is here to stay, and that they’ve got to figure out this new thing called e-commerce. While many firms get it, the

  • TEST BEFORE YOU LEAP

    IF YOU’VE GOT a great corporate reputation, serious market share and a killer product, do you really need a new direct marketing approach to gain a foothold

  • Up for Bid

    DESPITE CATALOGS with product offerings that sell for four and five figures, most publications catering to a wealthier demographic tend not to report

  • Roosevelt’s Cape

    AT A DINNER PARTY thrown by Don Chilcutt years ago, I found myself sitting next to cataloger John Peterman. Chilcutt, who managed Peterman’s list, hoped

  • KEEP ON TRUCKIN’

    TRUCKS, ESPECIALLY THE largest ones-dump trucks, cement mixers, liquid tankers, fire engines-are the stuff of little boys’ fantasies. You can almost hear

  • Americans Like Direct Mail

    AMERICANS READ OR scan more than 88% of all advertising mail delivered to their homes, and up to 18.1% of all households respond, according to a recently

  • Words of Wisdom for the Millennium

    HERE IT IS, the last Direct From Muldoon of the century to contain dazzling words of wisdom from our DM compatriots-smart little sayings to cut out and