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Agencies

  • Hello, You Failed. Would You Like to Buy a Blender?

    This spring, hundreds of thousands of students found out their grades for the semester over the phone. Before they heard the good (or bad) news they listened

  • DM Mergers Increase By Almost 100%

    DM mergers, acquisitions and buyouts in the first quarter of 1998 grew 99% over the first quarter of 1997, according to a study released in June by DM

  • DMA Names Catalog VP

    The Direct Marketing Association has named Roscoe Burton Starek III senior vice president, catalog industry. Starek is a former federal trade commissioner

  • You Beta, You Beta, You Bet

    A FEW TRENDS have come to light in our semiannual roundup of new database products. Most strikingly, the advent of increasingly powerful desktop computers

  • Envoy Drives Correspondence Course

    We feel toward serial mailings the way most people feel toward serial killers. However, unlike serial killers, serial mailings are sometimes amusing.

  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T-What Does That Mean to Us?

    Demarcation lines have faded. Direct marketers are respectable at last. Almost as respectable as general advertising executives. Certainly as respectable

  • GET promo to give away $164,000 house.

    DALLAS – Giving phone discounts is one thing, but giving away new house to prove your phone rates are worth having?That’s what GTE Corp. is doing in a

  • Singing In Tune

    CDnow, the Internet’s top music store, and MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, Inc., announced a groundbreaking, three-year integrated marketing agreement

  • USPS Kills Auto Day Mail Program

    Under fire from the Newspaper Association of America and even some local mailers, the U.S. Postal Service shelved plans last month to launch its Auto

  • Sweetening the Pot

    Publishing files, once the most basic of lists, are now being offered to mailers with a variety of bells and whistles, including modeling, regression