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  • Great Expectations

    This page doesn’t usually contain news, but it does this month. It’s that PROMO has a new editor in chief: Larry Jaffee. For those who don’t know him,

  • ETF Ad Weaves a Tangled Web

    Anybody here remember a certain pseudo-inspirational poster of yesteryear? It read: They said it couldn’t be done. So we didn’t even try. I thought of

  • Listline

    NEW LISTS Whyville.net Numedeon Inc. offers a file of 1.9 million children ages 8 to 15 who registered at the educational Web site Whyville.net. Some

  • East West Goes Postal

    East West Magazine will make its subscription-building direct mail debut at the end of this month, offering two free issues as an enticement for the annual

  • Anglo-American

    It doesn’t matter which side of the pond they’re on. The first stop for most consumers planning a trip is the Internet. That’s why VisitBritain, the United

  • No Booth? No Problem!

    Imagine you’re exhibiting at a trade conference and your booth doesn’t show. Bad news, right? Not necessarily. Jordan Ayan, CEO of e-mail service provider

  • Back to Basics

    In this multichannel age, direct mail is still the largest single power in direct marketing. The U.S. Postal Service handled 102.5 billion pieces of standard mail (direct mail advertising) in fiscal 2006, nearly half the year’s total mail volume.

  • Letters to the Editor

    JUST ONE THING I think Herschell Gordon Lewis overlooks one issue in his excellent lambasting of fundraising letters that don’t work the executive directors

  • Beananza!

    Do you know what happens when you combine one cotton candy jelly bean with one lemon jelly bean? You get pink lemonade. It may sound somewhat complicated,

  • Fight Club

    As the sun dips on April 5, tens of thousands of young men will settle in sports bars and living rooms to watch on pay-per-view an Ultimate Fighting Championship