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Agencies

  • The Art of Renewals

    THERE IS A legend among circulation directors about a renewal pitch done by Mad magazine back in its heyday.Although Mad did not try to acquire subscribers,

  • Stocking the Mailbox

    TWO RECENT creative packages used foodstuffs to try and cut through the mailbox clutter.Boston’s Direct Response Group developed a campaign to generate

  • Fashion-Turn to the Web

    LIZ CLAIRBORNE INC. (www.lizclaiborne. com) isn’t a direct marketer, of course, but the company is doing something so interesting on the Web that we wanted

  • The Game of Targeting

    CAN TARGETING in the interactive display ad arena make a difference? Boston’s NineCo is betting it does, and agencies that have placed clients on the

  • Nike Has Michael Jordan, the Pope Has the Frito Bandito

    NIKE IS THE archetype of the fin-de-sihcle marketer: Big, gutsy, proud, fearless and moderately unscrupulous.Some degree of mourning has to drop Nike’s

  • Funny Business

    TOP US IF you’ve heard this one. What do Basil Fawlty and a young Obi Wan Kenobi have in common? Not much-unless you count an authoritative manner and

  • B-to-B Computer Products Lead Gain

    SHOWING impressive fourth quarter earnings that exceeded many analysts’ predictions, business-to-business computer products catalogers and marketers provided

  • Bull Direct Marketer

    SINCE THAT sports thing didn’t work out for local hoopster Michael Jordan, it’s good he has something else to fall back on: direct marketing.In addition

  • Making the Most of a Painful Mistake

    IN JANUARY, Christophe Pettus, president of San Francisco adult product DMer Blowfish, broached the idea of scaling back the company’s paper catalog to

  • She Believes in DM

    SINGER/ACTRESS/POP icon Cher has gone online with a Web site that features a virtual version of her catalog Sanctuary.The site (www. cher.com) is designed