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  • >From Soap to Nuts

    ACTRESS SUSAN BATTEN is best known for her role as Luna Moody Holden on the soap opera “One Life to Live.” But she’s recently taken on a new role-catalog

  • Isn’t It Time to Swat That Stupid Millennium Bug?

    Which is a more powerful influence on human behavior, marketing or science?Based on the hoopla surrounding the forthcoming millennium, marketing is the

  • B-to-B Catalogs’ Online Customer Service Disappoints

    Business-to-business catalogers have failed to integrate their fulfillment and customer service operations with their online marketing efforts.That’s

  • Overlays on Overdrive

    EVEN IN A narrow niche such as diabetic customers, information can provide a competitive edge. Acknowledging this, Franklin Lakes, NJ-based medical supply

  • The Issue of Imagery

    IN “On Moral Fiction,” author John Gardner claimed that there were two ways to establish your creativity: You could do something better-give it a twist

  • Not at Your Service

    THIS IS THE fifth year we’ve done an informal accounting of service standards in the consumer catalog industry. In the past, we generally reviewed about

  • An Appropriate Gesture

    TO LIST PROFESSIONAL Rosalie Bulach, the newly designed first class stamp issued to raise money for breast cancer research held hope for two causes-the

  • Secrets Revealed

    MAIL ORDER entrepreneur Joseph Sugarman has authored three titles designed as a seminar on marketing.The first volume focuses on how to write powerful

  • The New Select

    ARE YOU WONDERING why that top-performing list you rented in 1997 just didn’t cut the mustard this year?One answer: Take a closer peek at where those

  • Wallace, Wright Together at Last

    PERSONALITIES AS DIVERSE as spam king Sanford Wallace and architect Frank Lloyd Wright highlight this month’s roundup of DM coverage in the mainstream