Topic

Agencies

  • letters to the editor

    More on the Maven In response to recent Letters to the Editor feedback: As a 35-year-old direct response writer with my fair share of successful controls,

  • Bigger Digs

    New Orleans was able to accommodate the needs for housing, conference and exhibition space during the Direct Marketing Association’s 83rd annual fall

  • AARP

    AARP knew it had to increase response to its mailings, and suspected the answer might lie in its database. The Washington-based organization, which provides

  • WILLIAMS-SONOMA

    Williams-Sonoma has come a long way from being a neighborhood shop dedicated to French cookware and cooking techniques. The company first opened its doors

  • BARNES & NOBLE.COM

    It’s a little hard to view Barnes & Noble.com as an underdog if you’re an independent bookstore. But pitted against Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com is

  • Fingerhut’s Bad Debt File Up for Sale

    Federated Department Stores Inc. plans to auction off 17 million of Fingerhut’s unpaid customer accounts totaling $2.4 billion in bad debt. The selloff

  • REGULATORY

    Nonprofit mailers are expected to save more than $1 billion in postage next year under a rate relief bill signed into law last month by President Clinton.

  • Beyond Opt-in vs. Opt-out

    The issue of opt-in vs. opt-out is at the center of the privacy debate. But the options are misunderstood by consumers, they are disruptive to business

  • LOSER’S CIRCLE

    I wish DIRECT had called to suggest I write a report on the worst direct response campaigns of the year. Most of those that came to my door or online

  • ONLINE

    BMG Direct, New York, a division of BMG Entertainment, recently suspended its new online music club OnePriceCDs and took the Web site offline in response