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  • 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

  • The British Invasion

    Ordinarily, the launch of a new grocery chain would be good news for packaged goods marketers. But that’s not the case with Tesco. The U.K. retail giant,

  • 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

  • Data Dilemmas

    Business-to-business databases have never been celebrated for their cleanliness. For starters, B-to-B data is complex and fast-changing. Customers conduct

  • Eastern Philosophy

    Mounting a successful integrated marketing effort is difficult enough. Throw in the additional hurdle of targeting a segment with a unique language and culture, and you’ve multiplied that challenge. Direct recently talked about creating multichannel campaigns for the Asian-American market with Saul Gitlin, executive vice president for strategic services and new business at New York agency Kang & Lee.

  • 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

  • Is There a Doctor in the Store?

    Got a cough? Forget the doctor. Go to a grocery store. That’s right. Medical clinics are springing up in supermarkets, mass-merchandise outlets and drug

  • 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

  • Do-It-Yourself Sweeps

    Move over, Google. Here comes a shot of Caffeine. Caffeine is a do-it-yourself system that lets small-business owners run online sweepstakes and coupons

  • 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