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Agencies

  • Entering the Orderzone

    HARDWARE GIANT W.W. Grainger, Chicago, has teamed up with six partners in an attempt to become a one-stop cybershop for the less glamorous items it takes

  • SMARTEN UP!

    AMERICAN CONSUMERS CAN hold all a direct marketer could want to know about them in the palms of their hands. All it would take is the acceptance of smart

  • Celluloid Heroes

    AUTHOR Arnie Bernstein managed to tie together Chicago, the movie industry and direct marketing in his recently published “Hollywood on Lake Michigan.”Bernstein

  • The Art of Renewals

    THERE IS A legend among circulation directors about a renewal pitch done by Mad magazine back in its heyday.Although Mad did not try to acquire subscribers,

  • Stocking the Mailbox

    TWO RECENT creative packages used foodstuffs to try and cut through the mailbox clutter.Boston’s Direct Response Group developed a campaign to generate

  • Fashion-Turn to the Web

    LIZ CLAIRBORNE INC. (www.lizclaiborne. com) isn’t a direct marketer, of course, but the company is doing something so interesting on the Web that we wanted

  • The Game of Targeting

    CAN TARGETING in the interactive display ad arena make a difference? Boston’s NineCo is betting it does, and agencies that have placed clients on the

  • Funny Business

    TOP US IF you’ve heard this one. What do Basil Fawlty and a young Obi Wan Kenobi have in common? Not much-unless you count an authoritative manner and

  • B-to-B Computer Products Lead Gain

    SHOWING impressive fourth quarter earnings that exceeded many analysts’ predictions, business-to-business computer products catalogers and marketers provided

  • Nike Has Michael Jordan, the Pope Has the Frito Bandito

    NIKE IS THE archetype of the fin-de-sihcle marketer: Big, gutsy, proud, fearless and moderately unscrupulous.Some degree of mourning has to drop Nike’s