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Agencies

  • 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

  • People

    Total Response Inc., Indianapolis, hired Julia Pekarek as account manager.Wendy Z. Vagnoni was named creative director at DMW Worldwide/Philadelphia.

  • Bill Would Cut Virginia Spam

    VIRGINIA BECAME THE first state to pass legislation controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail (“spam”) late last month, when its House of Delegates unanimously

  • 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

  • Entering the Orderzone

    HARDWARE GIANT W.W. Grainger, Chicago, has teamed up with six partners in an attempt to become a one-stop cybershop for the less glamorous items it takes

  • SMARTEN UP!

    AMERICAN CONSUMERS CAN hold all a direct marketer could want to know about them in the palms of their hands. All it would take is the acceptance of smart

  • Celluloid Heroes

    AUTHOR Arnie Bernstein managed to tie together Chicago, the movie industry and direct marketing in his recently published “Hollywood on Lake Michigan.”Bernstein

  • 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

  • A Simple Goal: Please the Customer

    SEARS CANADA INC. has managed to solve a database problem that’s confounded many marketers: channel conflict. It accomplished this by putting retail and