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  • 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

  • Amex Accused of Bias Against Hasidic Jews

    A NEW YORK jeweler has sued American Express Travel Related Services, claiming Amex is excluding from its catalogs items from vendors owned by Hasidic

  • Picking a Winner

    Winning may not be everything, but trying to win sure is an undeniable force. Everybody loves a winner, because everybody loves to win. That’s what keeps

  • No Postal Rate Hike Until January

    IN LATE JUNE, the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors approved an overall 2.9% increase in postage rates to take effect Jan. 10, 1999-the smallest

  • Association News

    Licensing ’98 a Global Hit New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center was home to the Licensing ’98 International show in June. Attendance reached

  • Much Ado About Privacy

    Is it me or have we all started to go off the deep end a bit on the privacy issue?Of late, it seems nary a day goes by that someone from within or outside

  • 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

  • Cold Calls, Hot Topics

    DIRECT RESPONSE does better in business media than in consumer media. For business, it’s Horatio Alger; for consumers, film noir.Small business publication