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