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  • CORRECTION:

    In the June issue, a profile of The Regan Group failed to reflect ranking data calculated near press time. Regan Group came in at No. 49 in the PROMO

  • The Doctor Is In

    Another humdrum night? Maybe it’s time to go out and hear some live jazz in a garden conservatory setting. But where? How about the hospital? It wouldn’t

  • Data Love

    Vendors, take note: Direct marketers will spend an average of nearly $250,000 for database upgrades this year. And they’re confident these expenditures

  • AOL to Customers and Mailers: And You Are?

    IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING April the most recent period for which figures are available AOL lost subscribers at a clip of 258,000 a month. That’s twomonth.

  • The New E-zine Metric

    WHEN E-ZINES first came out, chief marketing officers looked at the reports and were excited about using open rates and click-throughs to measure their

  • Balancing Act

    A 13-year-old Connecticut boy suffered second- and third-degree burns in 2001 after he set himself on fire by imitating a stunt on MTV’s show Jackass.

  • Somebody Gets It

    AS AN OBSERVER OF THE direct marketing world, I often have experiences where I slap my head and say, Yea! They get it! There also are times when I shake

  • TIMELINE

    June 16, 2006 HORMEL FOODS CORP., the maker of Spam, agreed to a lawsuit settlement that would allow NetBop Technologies, a small Welsh technology firm,

  • So Where’s the Copy?

    I admit, I have to search widely for interactive ads that cry out for a makeover. Still, there always seems to be a plentiful supply of examples of advertising folly. And while the percentage of such ads may be small, the dollar waste is huge.

    The latest example is one that I found in a recent issue of The Wall Street Journal, an ad for the worldwide chain of Mandarin Oriental Hotels. It’s presumably one of a series.

  • Priming the Pump

    Who wouldn’t like some free gasoline as gas prices remain at record levels? Well, a Sunoco promotion tied to NASCAR is offering consumers just that. Sunoco