Topic

Agencies

  • LISTLINE

    Delia’s Buys Fulcrum Lists Delia’s Inc., New York, has acquired the trademarks and mailing lists from Fulcrum Direct Inc., a privately held catalog company

  • Eye in the Sky

    RBIS’ SightFlight, a nonprofit flying eye hospital, increased its donor file by 15 times after testing aviation lists.The organization’s core file of

  • Sprint Calls on B-to-B Customers

    SURE, A DIME a minute sounds good. But try two free CD-ROMs packed with 15 million prospecting names, free long distance calling on Fridays and a business

  • A THIRST FOR FRESH BLOOD

    COPYWRITERS were never a dime a dozen. But it used to be that for every Bill Jayme who had retired, there was a Rosalie Sachs Levine in her prime, and

  • Track It or Forget It

    LIFE IS FULL of ironies. Here’s one of my favorites: Marketing pros who would never attempt a direct mail campaign without a careful cost/payback analysis

  • Block That Call

    CHICAGO-BASED AMERITECH unveiled a service in Chicago and Detroit last month specifically designed to block telemarketers’ calls. The company is the first

  • Insight Promotes Its Web Site on TV

    Insight Enterprises Inc. has just finished testing a series of national and regional television spots directing prospective purchasers to its Web site

  • Brazil and Argentina Mull Privacy Bills

    THE GOVERNMENTS OF both Brazil and Argentina are considering privacy legislation that could lead them further away from the U.S. privacy model, and closer

  • Same As It Ever Was

    WE’RE 10! We’re 10! Oh happy day! Yeah! Does that mean we get to ride our bikes after dark now?OK, so DIRECT is celebrating its first decade of publication.

  • Who’s Got the Rights? It Might Not Be You

    JENNY WAS BUSY manipulating one of the latest photos her agency had purchased from a photographer. Working diligently at the computer, she sat back and