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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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