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Agencies

  • Starting Up? Affiliate!

    One way for a Web start-up to distinguish itself in the cluttered e-commerce arena is to attract established direct marketers that own lists of proven

  • Florence Seeks to Buy Back DMI

    Dave Florence, chairman and founder of Direct Media Inc., has signed a letter of intent for management to buy back the company from Acxiom Corp.Florence

  • Investing in Data

    financial service providers such as banks and insurance companies court small businesses with the focus and attention of a first love. But even giants

  • Sample Patter

    Cox Target Media, St. Petersburg, FL, formed a new consumer sampling division to develop targeted solo and co-op mailings and handle Internet and direct-mail

  • Straight From the Source

    Compiled B-to-B data is better than ever. There are new sources of information – and new ways of looking at itasked to name the most glamorous business

  • Wal H Mart: Drives the Decade

    Perhaps the most telling image for consumer products marketers of the ’90s was captured the decade before, when a grass-skirted Sam Walton danced the

  • It’s Always Martha, Martha, Martha!

    I’ve written in this space before about my fear…er, admiration of Martha Stewart. She’s a beacon of impossibility…I mean, hope for the millennial

  • RTMS Links Up With Customer Insight Co.

    RTMS Inc., Milwaukee, will merge with Customer Insight Co. (CIC), the database software firm owned by Orange, CA information service firm Experian. Upon

  • GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE…

    MORE THAN 5,000 personal computers and related products were put up for bid in November on what is claimed to be the first wholesale Internet auctioning

  • POLITICS: Donnelley Mulls Run

    Shawn Donnelley, chairman of the Direct Marketing Association’s political action committee Direct Voice, is mulling a run for the U.S. House of Representatives