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  Don’t Be Lulled

  At first glance, the numbers might lead one into complacency. But look a little further and some disturbing elements emerge. Revenue projections – while

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  TELEMARKETING: Tough Town for Talking

  They sneer. They jeer. They say things like: “Why don’t you get a real job?” Hanging up can be the kindest thing New Yorkers do to telemarketers and pollsters.One

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  AFP Goes Bankrupt

  American Family Enterprises was already not a winner when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Oct. 29. The Jersey City, NJ, direct-mail sweepstakes

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  New Focus for McCann-Erickson Unit

  McCann-Erickson, a New York advertising agency with some $13 billion in billings, has revamped its media buying operation, which is now called Universal

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  Viking Gets It

  viking Office Products, which has annual revenues of more than $1.8 billion, has built a large customer base of small companies by using a tried-and-true

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  AFP Names Brian Wolfe CEO

  American Family Enterprises, parent company of beleaguered magazine stampsheet marketer American Family Publishers (AFP), has named Brian Wolfe president

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  CONSUMER SURVEY: No. 1 Nuisance: Junk Mail

  Never ones to win a popularity contest, direct mailers probably won’t be terribly surprised to hear that American consumers are “fed up” with junk mail.

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  R.R. Donnelley to Buy Penton

  Printer R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, will purchase Penton Press, a business-to-business printing subsidiary of Penton Media, Cleveland. Financial

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  ENTERTAINMENT: Heads Up – and Off

  Paramount Pictures is aiming for computer screens as well as the silver screen with its recent release “Sleepy Hollow.”This fall, the studio debuted an

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  Live From Germany: The New DM Boom

  DIMA conference is now so big it has to moveGerman direct marketing is on a roll. Up to 40 billion deutsche marks ($22.2 billion U.S., by our figures)