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  • The Two Lives of Marvin, the Deli King

    Last month, I had to shoot a photograph in the rustic part of Connecticut for a promotion. It was a cool and beautiful Saturday.At lunch I drove around

  • Instant Gratification

    WOULDN’T IT BE nice if charities that help disaster victims could get donations right after TV viewers had their hearts tugged by footage of the devastation

  • If This Isn’t E-mail Heaven, It Must Be the Other Place

    I WOULDN’T DARE KNOCK e-mail as a communications tool. After all, one of my books is “Cybertalk That Sells” (whatever that’s supposed to mean).But my

  • Shopper’s Nightmare

    IF THERE’S A single cliche that drives us up the wall, it’s the one in which small store owners are hailed as the paragon of one-to-one marketing. We’ve

  • The Good Guys Get Some

    The Coupon Information Corp. recently awarded its Gold Medallion to IRS Special Agent Paul Deery and Assistant United States Attorney Paul Sarmousakis,

  • The Xoom Boom

    XOOM INC., San Francisco (www.xoom.com), runs a Web community with a difference: Unlike most such communities, like GeoCities and Tripod, a large part

  • Quarterdeck President Hessler Resigns

    CURT HESSLER HAS resigned as president, CEO and director of Quarterdeck Corp., a computer helpware direct marketer/retailer in Marina del Rey, CA. The

  • Bean Sprouts Redesign

    IN RESPONSE TO “sluggish sales and stiffer competition,” apparel cataloger and retailer L.L. Bean is refining its catalog marketing operations and is

  • People

    Mokrynski & Associates Inc., Hackensack, NJ, promoted Lori Sloves to account executive in the list brokerage division.DraftWorldwide, Chicago, named Kristi

  • DOWNSIZING

    Acxiom/DMI Lays Off 30 ACXIOM/DIRECT MEDIA, Greenwich, CT, laid off 30 employees-some 5% of its work force-last month. The terminations came as part of