Topic

Agencies

  • The Recognition Factor

    Branding used to have a fixed definition of fixed identity: the set of images or associations surrounding a particular product or service and comprising

  • Dead Letter Files

    DMers continue to solicit the dead and the response they get is devastating to the industry’s image.”The mail sent to deceased persons is a fraction of

  • “Data Weenies Beat List Weenies”

    The last decade was a sweet one for database marketers. Lots of data was being collected and customers and prospects responded the way they were supposed

  • Titles to Leaf Through

    Feeling misunderstood? Read a book.”Get Your Message Across: The Professional Communication Skills Everyone Needs” (Allen & Unwin, Chicago) promises to

  • Broker Uses Conference to Publicize Suit

    In what amounts to throwing down a gauntlet, a list broker distributed copies of a lawsuit he filed against Dun & Bradstreet to the press attending the

  • Plumbers

    Economic globalization and corporate acquisition trends are spilling into the plumbing system. Not since the English Public Health Code of 1848 became

  • San Francisco Rumble

    Two apparent anti-“junk mail” activists were thwarted in their attempt to crash the Direct Marketing Association’s executive committee meeting at the

  • Gone to Hill and Back

    It’s a rare person who enjoys strapping a pair of waxed barrel staves to his feet and schussing down the side of a mountain; only 4% or 5% of the U.S.

  • DMA Enters the Merger Race

    The Direct Marketing Association has finally caught up with its members’ merger mania by making an acquisition itself.The trade group announced last month

  • Late Mailings Lead to Lawsuit

    California company filed a lawsuit against Advo Inc., Windsor, CT, claiming that lost revenue due to alleged mailings by Advo’s lettershop sent the company