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  • Telephone Turnaround

    After several years of lackluster sales, Optronics International Corp. is restructuring and developing professional telemarketing programs to prequalify

  • Signature Group Plans Mexico Test

    The Signature Group, Schaumburg, IL, is about to test its first loyalty reward program in Mexico, using a U.S. teleservices agency to handle inbound calls.The

  • Join the Club

    Hoping to offset sagging catalog sales, Damark International Inc. is investing more resources in membership clubs sold primarily by inbound telemarketing.In

  • Bible Has New Author

    A DM father is bequeathing the direct marketing bible to a DM son.The seventh edition of “Successful Direct Marketing Methods” will be co-edited by DM

  • List Source

    Official U.S. PlayStation Identifies 35,194 subscribers to this magazine for enthusiasts of the Sony PlayStation video game system. The file is updated

  • IRS Overruled

    A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT has reversed the Internal Revenue Service’s revocation of a charity’s tax-exempt status because of the arrangement it had with

  • People

    Total Response Inc., Indianapolis, hired Julia Pekarek as account manager.Wendy Z. Vagnoni was named creative director at DMW Worldwide/Philadelphia.

  • Bill Would Cut Virginia Spam

    VIRGINIA BECAME THE first state to pass legislation controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail (“spam”) late last month, when its House of Delegates unanimously

  • A Simple Goal: Please the Customer

    SEARS CANADA INC. has managed to solve a database problem that’s confounded many marketers: channel conflict. It accomplished this by putting retail and