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Agencies

  • Compaq CEO Pfeiffer Steps Down

    ECKHARD PFEIFFER RESIGNED April 18 as CEO of Compaq Computer Corp., Houston. The resignation was reportedly the result of pressure from the board of directors

  • Loring Starts Agency

    LIST VETERAN BART Loring has opened a full-service direct response agency in New City, NY. Loring Direct Response will offer personalized list and alternative

  • Marquis de Sade, Author of Owner’s Manuals

    IT’S MY OWN fault for dumping my little Motorola StarTac phone (which tends to disappear in a shirt pocket) and getting one of those jazzy new Nokias

  • Building a Business Case for a Marketing System

    PERHAPS YOU’VE been there…You’ve investigated database marketing systems, developed opinions on databases vs. data warehouses and in-house solutions

  • Digital Buzzwords

    NO WONDER YOU’RE in a bad mood. It’s late, and you’re proofing a catalog page when you realize that the photo and the caption have nothing to do with

  • The Panning of Peterman Panned

    YOU’VE GOT TO give John Peterman this much credit: While his catalog may have gone out in a blaze of glory, the flames have yet to die, judging from the

  • DMA STUDY: B-to-B Insurance DM Booming

    BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS is the strongest growth area in the insurance and financial services sector, according to a recent Direct Marketing Association study.

  • DM Service Sector Shows Decline

    IN THE WORLD of direct marketing public company investing, there is strength in few, not in numbers.While the average price of DM service supplier stocks

  • THE NEW CREW

    To a casual visitor, the J. Crew office in the former Wanamaker building in New York probably doesn’t look any different than it did two summers ago.

  • Small Customers, High Margins

    AFTER FOUR YEARS of brokering equipment leases through the Internet, First Sierra Financial has decided it’s time to set up its own virtual bank.Later