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  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

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Hartford/New Haven, CT

  Hartford and New Haven supermarkets are big on service and specialty departments. Seventy percent of stores in the area have prepared-food departments,

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  Hochberg Made SBA Deputy Administrator

  Cataloger Fred P. Hochberg, former president/CEO of Lillian Vernon Corp., was sworn in last month as deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

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  Columbia House Starts a Positive-Option Club

  Columbia House has introduced “Play,” its first music club to operate on a positive-option basis rather than the negative option most often used by such

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  On the Road Again

  BOULDER, CO – Schwinn, the self-proclaimed American Classic, has sponsorship partners clinging to it like swarms of bees on a branch. Kraft Food’s Tang

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  THE DEL POLITO LETTER

  Postal rate cases usually center on four basic tasks: defining the amount of new revenue needed to ensure break-even operation; tracing back and attributing

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  U.S. Bank Mailing Succeeds Despite Low Response

  Once upon a time there was a direct marketing campaign that didn’t get any response.What-no flurry of telephone calls? No BRCs returned? Nothing.Not that

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  Hollywood Holds the Line

  Marketers spent an estimated $5.14 billion on promotional licenses in 1997, a 3 percent increase driven mostly by film tie-ins. At the same time, consumer

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  Kemmler’s Law

  Moments before becoming the first man ever to go to the electric chair, William Kemmler complained about his press coverage. “I’m bad enough,” he said.

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  DEMOGRAPHICS

  Dustin Hoffman gave us our first image of a man raising a child in “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But it was the image of Michael Keaton at home that gave the concept