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Agencies

  • Translation Errors

    TACTICS THAT WORK for consumer catalogs won’t necessarily translate successfully to their business-to-business brethren, according to Pamela J. Hutchins,

  • Card Sharks or Card Guppies-The Song’s the Same

    CARD DECKS ARE making a comeback. We went through a period in which almost nobody was mailing card decks. Now they’re reanimating themselves.But unlike

  • Catalog Sales on Rise: WEFA

    Catalog sales continue to grow at a faster rate than total sales to consumers and businesses in the United States, according to a recently updated study

  • High-Tech Firm Starts a High-Tech Campaign

    PeopleSoft Inc., the Pleasanton, CA-based software developer, has begun a high-tech DM campaign targeting Fortune 2000 companies in several major industries.The

  • Brokers Break Bread

    American List Counsel Inc.’s executive vice president Fran Green and president Donn Rappaport welcomed more than 100 brokers in May to the firm’s second

  • Casting the Net

    Ed Mufson’s company is the ’90s version of the fabled DM kitchen table start-up. A year ago, Mufson, who’s been in retail for 30 years, was thinking of

  • The Sher Solution

    Database marketers have a new resource available. It’s R. K. Sher & Associates, Highland Park, IL, founded by longtime industry leader Bob Sher. Sher

  • Conspiracy Revealed: Intrigue-ing DM Campaign

    He cover for the Oldsmobile Intrigue/”X-Files” movie direct mail piece was a plain brown envelope, which makes sense, given the television show’s bent

  • Introducing the Web Call Center

    Then the call center at IDT Corp. gets swamped, the Hackensack, NJ telecom company turns to Communications Service Center, a Margate, FL service bureau

  • Relationship Marketing and the New DM

    This December McGraw-Hill will publish the third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing.” Over the next few issues we’ll offer