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  • At Your Office Is Open for Business

    MAYBE THE BEST way the booming office supplies industry can get to the elusive small office/ home office market is through a virtual company. So thinks

  • GET BACK TO THE BASICS

    “BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU wish for.” For business-to-business marketers, this old adage has never been more true.B-to-Bers have abundant sales and marketing

  • Sitings

    DOGGIE-STYLE www.ballparkfranks.com They plump when you cook ’em, but come on pookie, on the two-dimensional Web, that’s not enough. The kind of sites

  • Making History

    Amazingly, 1998 was a major milestone for two driving forces: it was NAS-CAR’s 50th anniversary and Goodyear’s 100th anniversary. With all the hoopla

  • We’re Going to Disney World!

    What we see, of course, is the finished product, the catchy headline of the press release or the inviting ad that says: Sears Offers Adventure of the

  • A Is for Advocacy

    Okay, class, open your notebooks, this material will be included in the final exam.Contrary to popular wisdom, the marketing continuum does not begin

  • Why 2K?

    Ask yourself: After it’s over, what are you going to have to remember it by besides the Y2K debacle?Corporate premium buyers are asking themselves that

  • TOYS IN THE BANDWIDTH: PHIL POLISHOOK, VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING

    When it comes to being an Internet-based category killer, many hear the call but few are chosen. One of the latter is eToys (www.etoys.com), which a year

  • California Toughens Spam Laws

    TWO RECENT PIECES of legislation in California may crack down on unsolicited electronic mailings in that state.The first, AB 1676, has been signed into

  • The USPS Delivers

    CAN YOU TAKE IT?Direct mailers, already giddy from the timing and size of the rate hike, got another piece of good news from the U.S. Postal Service in