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Agencies

  • Cut, Style and Sell

    Vain was merely Seattle’s most happening hair salon a year ago. Now, founder and president Victoria Thomas Gentry has a sprouting consumer and business-to-business

  • Successful team selling

    Customers evaluate your company’s sales and service based on how well you provide accurate information and quick solutions. Seamless customer support

  • Checkout

    Shopping Is Thirsty Work The outlet mall moguls at Prime Retail are pinning their promotional plans on cans of Coca-Cola. The Baltimore-based property

  • FLORSHEIM INTERNATIONAL: ON THE RIGHT FOOT

    Pity the poor news editor, buried by a daily stream of press releases. Whether mailed, e-mailed or faxed, many messages get lost in the mound that piles

  • Not Ready for Prime Time

    DRTV spot produced by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) promoting vegetarianism was rejected by all of the Big Four television networks

  • Me Llamo Tinky Winky

    The itsy bitsy Entertainment Company of New York City and U.K.-based Ragdoll Productions have agreed to launch the wildly popular Teletubbies TV series

  • Man of the World: DRAFT IS DIRECT MARKETER OF YEAR

    Howard Draft, chairman/CEO of DraftWorldwide, is CADM’s 1999 Charles S. Downs Chicago Direct Marketer of the Year. At age 45, he’s the youngest-ever recipient

  • Some Thoughts on 1999

    1999 not only marks the end of a decade, but the end of a 10-year period during which direct marketers were constantly urged to change their management

  • The Thrill of Sales, The Agony of Service

    How exciting it is for direct marketers to consummate real business over the phone and the Internet! How sad it is that customer service and support,

  • BIG-TIME KID STUFF

    Blame it on B’omarr Monk.The spidery-looking droid from “Star Wars”-who only appears in “Return of the Jedi” for a few seconds-inadvertently led toy titan