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  • LISTLINE

    Focus Direct Buys Creative List Solutions San Antonio, TX-based Focus Direct Inc. has acquired Creative List Solutions, Provo, UT.The transaction delivers

  • Mailers Kept Their Promise-But Did the USPS?

    DESPITE A YEAR of record mail volume, postal revenue has fallen way below the U.S. Postal Service’s projections of a $200 million profit for fiscal 1999.

  • Time Starved? Join the Club

    TIME AND MONEY are probably the most sought-after intangibles in any working woman’s life. Women’s Consumer Network, Washington, DC, is building a membership

  • Quill Enters the British Market

    THE QUILL office supply catalog has been introduced in the United Kingdom by parent firm Staples Inc.-the first step of a general expansion in Europe.Since

  • Increasing Profits by Not Mailing

    FOR MANY, waiting through the early stages of determining lifetime customer value feels like eating Brussels sprouts. It’s not something you do for fun,

  • Beyond the Bag

    AFTER HANDING OUT 100,000 co-op giveaway bags to departing Super Bowl fans in January, Bob Perlstein, president of LCC Inc. in Atlanta, was so enthusiastic

  • DM Service Sector Shows Decline

    IN THE WORLD of direct marketing public company investing, there is strength in few, not in numbers.While the average price of DM service supplier stocks

  • Marquis de Sade, Author of Owner’s Manuals

    IT’S MY OWN fault for dumping my little Motorola StarTac phone (which tends to disappear in a shirt pocket) and getting one of those jazzy new Nokias

  • The Importance of Being Integrated

    CUSTOMER relationship management is one of the most talked-about topics today. But what constitutes CRM? How did it evolve and what promise does it hold

  • Digital Tributes

    SOMETIMES those 15 minutes of fame come after death.ObitDetails LLC, Chicago, gives families a chance to memorialize deceased loved ones-for all the world