Topic

Agencies

  • Right Out of the Banner

    For the Mother’s Day selling season, 1-800-Flowers and Godiva Chocolatier launched Internet ads that allow consumers to order a limited number of products

  • B-to-B Catalogers’ Market Leadership May Be Misleading

    For more than two years, direct marketing stock pickers have trumpeted the advantages of buying shares in business-to-business companies rather than stock

  • If Your Caddy Zigs, Does Your Jaguar Jag?

    A brutal question: When was the last time national advertising for automobiles caused you to take any positive action other than stifling a yawn? Or scratching

  • What It Means to Mailers

    The Postal Rate Commission has admirably fulfilled the vision set out in the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act-that of providing checks and balances to discipline

  • Tobacco Ad Ban Proposed

    The proposal for a ban on tobacco advertising across Europe gets little support from most marketers. Few would go so far as to suggest it is actually

  • Back to the Drawing Board

    Back to the 50’s, a mail order catalog owned by Crowne Ventures Corp., Las Vegas, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 8. But this summer

  • More Than Points

    There’s an old Washington, D.C. adage that an honest politician is one who, when bought, will stay bought. Were this true in the consumer arena, loyalty

  • EDUCATION: Mercy Offers DM Specialty

    Know someone who aspires to a DM career? If so, show them this: Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY, is offering a direct marketing specialty, culminating

  • America’s Business

    For as long as any of us can remember, direct mail has been under attack for what many see as violations of privacy. We’ve become notorious for what the

  • CONFERENCES: Alarms and Excursions

    Our plans when traveling to conferences are usually simple: Attend sessions, meet colleagues, send copy back to New York and sleep.At the Canadian Direct