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  • Who’s Got the Rights? It Might Not Be You

    JENNY WAS BUSY manipulating one of the latest photos her agency had purchased from a photographer. Working diligently at the computer, she sat back and

  • Sprint Calls on B-to-B Customers

    SURE, A DIME a minute sounds good. But try two free CD-ROMs packed with 15 million prospecting names, free long distance calling on Fridays and a business

  • Cut and Paste

    WHEN MY SISTER and I were little, our mother used to save all the holiday catalogs she received. On Christmas, she would take them out and give them to

  • Newlyweds

    RECENT POLITICAL developments are making marriage a legal hotbed for newlyweds and would-be newlyweds. Advocates of same-sex marriage such as the Human

  • Direc Newsline

    Deutsche Post Will Buy Global Mail DEUTSCHE POST A.G., Bonn, Germany, is entering the private market for international mail by acquiring Global Mail Ltd.,

  • Beastie-Vision

    AT 3 A.M, one expects to find Ron Popeil on the air extolling the virtues of hair in a can. Or an ’80s sitcom star praising a line of cosmetics. But the

  • Block That Call

    CHICAGO-BASED AMERITECH unveiled a service in Chicago and Detroit last month specifically designed to block telemarketers’ calls. The company is the first

  • Living Off the Dead

    OFFICIALLY, the Dead have been dead for more than three years-but it seems that Grateful Dead direct sales may live on and on.The durable rock band itself

  • Combine and Conquer

    MW WORLDWIDE, an agency making its debut at this month’s Direct Marketing Association fall conference, will seem mighty familiar to industry observers.The

  • Contact Strategy: Segmenting Your Targets

    CONTACT STRATEGY DEALS with using data about customer purchases, promotion patterns, interests and preferences to not only profitably regulate the sequence