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Agencies

  • Some Thoughts on 1999

    1999 not only marks the end of a decade, but the end of a 10-year period during which direct marketers were constantly urged to change their management

  • The Thrill of Sales, The Agony of Service

    How exciting it is for direct marketers to consummate real business over the phone and the Internet! How sad it is that customer service and support,

  • BIG-TIME KID STUFF

    Blame it on B’omarr Monk.The spidery-looking droid from “Star Wars”-who only appears in “Return of the Jedi” for a few seconds-inadvertently led toy titan

  • Fair Game

    The London DM Fair is going global.The event-scheduled for March 16-18-has been rechristened the International Direct Marketing Fair. Twelve thousand

  • The Net’s Horsepower

    One reason shopping online proved so popular over this past holiday season was that the Web offered truly novel gifts, available nowhere at retail.Here’s

  • HSN Plays Games

    The Home Shopping Network, St. Petersburg, FL, is launching Match It, a memory challenge game similar to Old Maid designed to entertain diehard viewers

  • Pay to Play

    Database Investment has continued unabated from last year, according to DIRECT’s annual reader survey. Once again, just over half of our respondents indicated

  • Holiday Hangover

    In the name of science-and because I didn’t want to spend much time in the malls-I did a lot of my holiday shopping by catalog this recent holiday season.During

  • Motown Meets Tinseltown

    Hollywood Universal Studios has signed a massive marketing deal with the Dodge division of DaimlerChrysler that is being touted as one of the largest

  • RAPP COLLINS: LABOR OF LOVE

    Who says you can’t have a hard nose for business and a heart of mush? Ask any of the designers, copywriters, marketers or other Rapp Collins staffers