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Agencies

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fair Game

    The London DM Fair is going global.The event-scheduled for March 16-18-has been rechristened the International Direct Marketing Fair. Twelve thousand

  • 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

  • Pay to Play

    Database Investment has continued unabated from last year, according to DIRECT’s annual reader survey. Once again, just over half of our respondents indicated

  • The Net’s Horsepower

    One reason shopping online proved so popular over this past holiday season was that the Web offered truly novel gifts, available nowhere at retail.Here’s

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Buffalo

    Buffalo is big on food. The upstate New York market ranks fourth in the nation in all-commodity dollar volume. It ranks No. 1 among supermarkets offering