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  • Enemies List

    As reported by Thom Weidlich on page 11, protesters tried to disrupt the DMA executive committee meeting in San Francisco last month. They dumped some

  • Malling Betty

    General Mills begins construction this month Betty Crocker Kitchen, a retail bakery outlet in the Mall of America. The store will open in mid-October,

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Phoenix

    Phoenix grocers are big on free samples, but light on frequent-shopper deals. Only 11 percent of stores here have frequent-shopper programs. Fully 94

  • No Lazy Last Days of Summer for Retail Catalogers

    WHILE AUGUST sales among a sample of retailers were lackluster, those with separate catalog divisions showed stronger results during the last full month

  • Beastie-Vision

    AT 3 A.M, one expects to find Ron Popeil on the air extolling the virtues of hair in a can. Or an ’80s sitcom star praising a line of cosmetics. But the

  • TV Now a Toll-Free Medium

    ALMOST ONE-FOURTH of all television commercials use a toll-free number as a response mechanism, according to a new study by Response Marketing Group,

  • Use Your Data to Upgrade B-to-B Frequency

    FOR TOO LONG, frequency programs have occupied a back seat in business-to-business marketing, despite the obvious advantages.B-to-B marketers, after all,

  • Cashing In Your Chips

    MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS are dominating many sectors of the U.S. economy, and the direct marketing industry, in particular. Everywhere you turn, somebody

  • Want Teens to Shop Online? Get Them to Chat

    YOU’D NEVER THINK that giving teenagers a place to talk about homework, their boyfriends and the likes of Marilyn Manson would enable an online clothing