Topic

Direct Mail

  • What Happens When You Talk to Your Prospect?

    When a business owner decides to write to their customers, he or she draws from what they know best. And the writing style they use may be the one learned when they were probably least interested in writing about anything: in high school.

  • Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail

    Macy’s Teams Up with Project Runway From L’Oreal makeup and Tresemm

  • Salesmanship, Repetition and Direct Mail

    Sales start with business publication advertising

  • A Direct Mail Hero

    Ralph Ginzburg, who died last month at age 76, was a publisher, a direct marketer, an author and a photographer. But he will be most remembered for the

  • Rate Shock

    MANY DIRECT MARKETERS ARE still in shock after seeing the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed rates for standard mail parcels weighing less than a pound. If

  • Preserving paper collectibles is in the bag for Randolph, MA business

    Casual comic book enthusiasts read their periodicals and then toss them on the coffee table. Would a serious collector do that? Would Superman leave a chunk of kryptonite lying around the Fortress of Solitude? They turn to businesses like Bill Cole Enterprises, which sells Mylar sleeves, backing boards and other preservation supplies for paper collectibles like money, magazines, and yes, funny books.

  • Great-West Woos Dentists

    TALK ABOUT DRILLING DOWN: Great-West Life Assurance Co. increased its coverage of dentists by 7% by offering enhanced benefits and changing its list segmentation.

  • Revised Curriculum

    The folks at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management must be auditing direct marketing classes at their parent school. For starters, they’ve

  • Plumber Turns to Postcards

    WHAT DOES A LOCAL PLUMBING concern do when business starts to slow down and the Yellow Pages doesn’t bring in work the way it used to? This was the problem

  • Full Disclosure

    The U.S. Postal Service has a problem: It needs to improve customer relations. But that’s a tall order given the uncertainty of postal reform legislation passage, the new rate case and the promise of large annual increases because of the escrow account issue.