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Agencies

  • Wireless Phones Reach Their Party

    WIRELESS TELEPHONES are no longer merely for intense urbanites who can’t run out for a cup of coffee without staying in touch. Heaven forbid they could

  • Tower of Babel

    FIRMS PLANNING TO implement customer contact and retention systems for the first time should take heed: The deck is stacked. Just under one-third of these

  • Firm Offers Trade: PCs for Privacy

    A CALIFORNIA OUTFIT offering free PCs in return for consumers’ demographic information and their privacy was so swamped with requests on the first day

  • HELP WANTED: THE NET PROWLER

    Psst.Don’t let your boss see you reading this.Are you finding your fulfillment-company job unfulfilling? Is that list broker position leaving you listless?

  • Listline

    Kaplan Named Time-Life Alt Media List Manager The Kaplan Agency, Stamford, CT, has been chosen as exclusive list manager of Time-Life and Heartland Music’s

  • So-So Quarter for Mailers: Survey

    OLD-FASHIONED PAPER mailers reported mediocre results for 1998’s third quarter, according to a survey by Edith Roman Associates.A third said mailing results

  • Nature’s Way

    MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE people are getting short shrift from HMOs. Or maybe patients are tired of hearing doctors tell them their conditions are hopeless,

  • Going Bananas over Cable

    Dole Food Co. has traded in the pig for a pack of wild animals that will keep the brand running all year. The company this month kicks off a one-year

  • Compaq Casts a Wide Net

    TO SAY Compaq Computer Corp. is stepping up efforts to snare sales through the Web might be a bit of an understatement.Within several weeks of each other,

  • Texas Gets Tough on Telemarketing

    TWO IDENTICAL telemarketing bills have been proposed in the Texas House and Senate, addressing several aspects of telephone soliciting. Most importantly,