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  • They’ve Got Their Number

    Eyeing an opportunity to extend its brand, Los Angeles-based Petersen Companies, publisher of Teen magazine, partnered with Motorola pagers and Virgin

  • Marketers Find Dining Divine

    Here’s a change from sub-segmented, micromarketed target audiences: People who like to eat. One could easily cull a dozen names from the DIRECT editorial

  • Web Advertising Costs Drop

    With a few exceptions, Web advertising became cheaper in 1998 than in 1997, according to a survey by Boca Raton, FL-based WebConnect, a sister company

  • Rescued from the Shredder

    A few morsels from the 1998 scrap heap of column ideas seemed just too delicious not to share before we jump-start the shredder and begin anew.Zorro-ed

  • Comparative Advertising Doesn’t Always Work Overseas

    With the Internet rapidly breaking down borders and thereby creating a variety of legal implications, it is imperative to review comparative advertising

  • What Stores Want

    Forget national sweepstakes, the Internet, and tear pads. Retailers would rather have your demos, shipper displays, and a few extra bucks for direct mail.That’s

  • Stationer Distinguishes Itself by Offering Services

    It’s one thing to offer techno-savvy small offices the means to buy note pads, paper clips and the like over the Web. But one cyber-stationer is going

  • Time to Stop the Dance

    Those familiar with the paths a legislative proposal takes on its way to congressional enactment often refer to the process as the dance of legislation.

  • Listline

    One Claim Dropped in D&B Lawsuit Though he is allowing the case to proceed, a federal judge has thrown out a claim in a lawsuit accusing Dun & Bradstreet

  • Universal, Kmart To Go Steady Next Fall

    Universal Studios Consumer Products Group signed a deal with one retailer – Kmart Stores – to launch two product lines. Some licensed apparel for both