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  • Money Where Its Mouth Is

    POPAI has joined with the Advertising Research Foundation on a national study aimed at making P-O-P a measured advertising medium like print and broadcast.The

  • PRICELINE.COM

    Here’s an interesting twist: Priceline.com founderJay Walker is this year’s DMDNY Direct Marketer of the Year-despite the fact that he chose not to use

  • Y&R to Buy KnowledgeBase

    ADBERTISING CONGLOMERATE Young & Rubicam Inc., New York, agreed in April to acquire database marketing agency KnowledgeBase Marketing Inc. for $175 million

  • Still in the Race

    MANY INDUSTRY VETERANS say mail is holding its own when it comes to reaching consumers. But gone are the days of extensive testing, mass scattershot campaigns

  • Postal Progress

    IN THE YEARS following World War I, being gay was enough to disqualify people from being postal workers.Case in point: In 1924 or 1925, Henry Gerber,

  • Knowing Your Market

    A couple of years ago, Scottsdale, AZ-based Premium Cigars International Ltd. latched onto a pretty nifty idea: With cigars already fast becoming a yuppie

  • Dun Deals

    THE TERM “hard offer” brings to mind Lee Marvin Westerns, in which a grizzled trail hand would lay a $20 gold piece on top of a barrel and demand the

  • THE NET PROWLER THE NET PROWLER THE NET PROWLER

    FUN WITH PHOTOS Perceptual Robotics Inc., Evanston, IL, which created the iCam Internet camera, has a new wrinkle it calls Look and Buy. The system is

  • No Dark Horse

    THE FIRST THING Novus List Management’s president Joanne Capria wants people to know is that her company is no dark horse.”A lot of people say the company

  • A Fair Chance for New Media

    FOR EACH OF the past four years I’ve had the pleasure of attending London’s International Direct Marketing Fair, there’s been a cultural milestone or