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  • The 10% Club

    The origins of list management and the manager’s commission

  • The Road to Wellville

    How patent medicine kings like H.H. Warner developed the art of direct mail

  • Book Excerpt: Power Shift

    Putting consumers in control gives them a sense of empowerment

  • DIRECT Listline

    NEW LISTS OfficeMax Government/Education OfficeMax is offering separate files of government and education buyers. Some 45,389 names are on the government file and 34,174 are on the schools and education list. Products sold include office supplies, …

  • Curmudgeon-at-Large: Get Out of My Sandbox

    Yeah, it’s inevitable. We buy a nice sandbox, fill it with nice sand, and are having a nice time playing in it. Then in come a bunch of yahoos who insist on playing in our sandbox. They get it full of mud, their raucous deportment destroys the placid …

  • Direct Hit: Anniversary Time

    It’s time for one of those small but meaningful anniversaries, at least for students of direct marketing trade media. It was on Nov. 7, 1994 that the first edition of Direct Newsline, our daily news service, appeared. Newsline was the brainchild of …

  • Announcing a Pronouncement

    And pronouncing an announcement

  • IBM Fine-Tunes Marketing Budget

    In 1993, when IBM Corp. was labeled a “dinosaur” by several leading business publications, it wasn’t exactly facing extinction. But it was in danger of becoming irrelevant, according to T. David McGovern, IBM Global Services’ manager of worldwide direct …

  • On the Bright Side

    A Direct special report on the state of the direct marketing industry