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Agencies

  • OBSOLETE OPPORTUNITY

    AFTER FIVE YEARS of running a firm that recycled PCBs from places like the Hudson River, Brin McCagg thought it was time to try a less toxic form of recycling.

  • The Quick and the Dead

    WITHIN 48 HOURS after the notice of my father’s death appeared in The New York Times, my mother received direct mail solicitations offering estate appraisal

  • Site Lines

    FORGET BANNER ADS and even targeted e-mail. To the converted, affiliate marketing is the future of e-commerce.In an affiliate marketing program, a Web

  • BusinessHere.com Steps Up to the Auction Biz

    THE LATEST COMPANY TO offer or auction office products and furniture electronically to the small office market decided to try it first in its own backyard

  • Getting Into the Internet Bag

    JUMPING INTO THE e-commerce waters is still treacherous. But a brave group of executives has left their safe jobs at luggage company Samsonite to start

  • At the Crossroads

    WITH THE millennium only six months away, it might pay to bone up on best practices and get a glimpse into the future of database marketing. And there’s

  • DoubleClick Adds Abacus to the Count

    A MID-JUNE MERGER of DoubleClick Inc. and Abacus Direct Corp. has industry observers and privacy advocates alike wondering who will benefit and at what

  • Take This $100-Please!

    IF THE ENVELOPE says “Free,” any consumer is guaranteed to open it, right?Actually, only about 60% of those who received a Val-Pak envelope boasting “A

  • Always and Forever-for Now

    Royalty marketers have done a good job of locking in affluent consumers, 71% of whom participate in at least one loyalty program. But the field is wide

  • Tea and Sympathy

    ALTHOUGH LAND’S END has been hogging all the publicity about establishing fun and comprehensive e-commerce Web sites, it is hardly alone. Many smaller