Topic

Agencies

  • Even Conservatives Hate Telemarketing

    While I believe markets work, I just don’t understand how they work in telemarketing. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Tim Muris has his doubts as well.

  • An Unusual Annual

    If I had to use one word to describe my 2001 Direct Marketing Association annual conference experience, it would be Typically, going to the DMA conference

  • Setting a Place Online

    If Lenox Collections is powered by solid marketing plans, strong sales and continuous growth, then the Internet unit adds a small but potent amount of

  • Dealing With Change

    AMERICAN CONSUMERS have turned into one sad, unsure group needing diverse comforts and taking just as diverse paths. Most of us are united in sympathy

  • .Biz Ad Isn’t Designed to Draw Biz

    Am I exceeding my franchise this issue? Is the .biz ad chosen for making over this month really a direct response ad? And if it isn’t, how come I’m picking

  • Member Jerks

    MEMBER PROGRAM: A marketing scheme in which a consumer is incessantly hounded by phone and urged to sign up for a useless service. 2. A plan in which

  • See You in San Diego

    THE RECENT National Postal Forum in Denver most definitely was not your usual postal forum. The most remarkable differences were the reduced attendance,

  • Tougher Still

    IN THESE TOUGH TIMES, list brokers everywhere are hustling for new business. In our field, that means coming up with new clients, and quite a few brokers

  • An early Snapshot

    Marketers, along with the rest of America, were reeling from the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, and this may have colored their responses to DIRECT’s