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Agencies

  • People

    Time Life Inc., Alexandria, VA, named Amy Golden vice president, new product development, for its book unit.Epsilon, Burlington, MA, tapped Michael Iaccarino

  • Will Fallout From Sweeps Lawsuits Affect Response to Consumer Mailings?

    THE RECENT CONTROVERSY over the American Family Publishers and Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes contests will cause problems next year for both magazine

  • USPS May Have Another $1 Billion Surplus

    Unless there’s a sudden and sharp decline in mail volume and revenue, the U.S. Postal Service appears to be heading toward its fourth $1 billion surplus

  • Directnewsline

    USPS Unveils Holiday Mail Plans THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE, with the aid of major mailers, has developed fall and holiday mailing plans that it hopes will

  • B-to-B DMers Suffer from Market Woes

    BUSINESS-TO-business DMers couldn’t escape the stock market’s downturns during the last three months.The 32 B-to-B direct marketers tracked by Gruppo,

  • Cable TV Viewers

    SINCE ITS June 1948 invention in Mahanoy City, PA, cable TV (then called community antenna television) has made it into 58.5% of all U.S. households,

  • Customers for Life: Applying Relationship Marketing

    THIS IS THE FINAL PART of an excerpt on relationship marketing from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing”

  • Splinter Groups

    SOME FOLKS can’t leave well enough alone. When Nancy Miller, marketing analyst for Parkersburg, WV-based Woodcraft Supply, first started using a neural-network-based

  • No Two Alike

    PRINT TECHNOLOGY has allowed direct marketers to edge closer to the ideal of one-to-one marketing. Leading the charge is on-demand printing, which enables

  • RECRUIT THE A-TEAM

    IT’S GENERALLY believed that after a certain amount of time spent working the phones, telephone representatives burn out. I maintain that reps are more