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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute is a nonprofit membership organization in California dedicated to finding signs of life

Twelve Subway sandwich shop franchises in Buffalo, NY, broke a campaign in mid-August that offers consumers alerts and discount coupons via customers’ cell phones.

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has introduced a far-reaching privacy bill that could spell deep trouble for any business that uses so-called personally

HERE’S A STATISTIC THAT PROBABLY SHOULDN’T SURPRISE ANYONE. Of the list companies polled by Direct in its 2006 list use survey (see supplement following

IF YOU’VE BEEN IN DIRECT marketing for more than a few months, you already know the basics of setting up test cells that will deliver statistically projectable

IN COMEDY AND LIFE IN general timing is everything. Miss a beat, and a joke is ruined. Miss a bus, and you might never meet the love of your life. We

Was Arlo Guthrie right? Does 50 people a day walking into an organization, singing a protest song and walking out make a movement? I sure hope so, for

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DESPITE DECLINES IN recent years, cooperative direct mail can still be a useful medium for DMers that want to reach large groups of people at a lower

I’M GETTING MORE AND MORE STEAMED AT HIT-AND-RUN DIRECT marketers. Who or what are hit-and-runners? They’re the ones who know a couple of action words