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  • U.S. Bank Mailing Succeeds Despite Low Response

    Once upon a time there was a direct marketing campaign that didn’t get any response.What-no flurry of telephone calls? No BRCs returned? Nothing.Not that

  • It’s a Wrap

    The annual PMA Star Power conference lived up to its title last month when both Ron Howard and Will Smith spoke to about 500 marketing executives on Warner

  • First Data Cuts Work Force by 11%

    First Data Solutions, Omaha, NE, reduced its work force by 98 employees-approximately 11%-on May 15, a company spokesperson said. The cuts were made across

  • Wild Lobbies

    ATLANTA – Holiday Inn is giving kids and families the world this summer – all 360 degrees of it.Building on its kids-eat-free promos, the lodging giant

  • Conspiracy Revealed: Intrigue-ing DM Campaign

    He cover for the Oldsmobile Intrigue/”X-Files” movie direct mail piece was a plain brown envelope, which makes sense, given the television show’s bent

  • Casting the Net

    Ed Mufson’s company is the ’90s version of the fabled DM kitchen table start-up. A year ago, Mufson, who’s been in retail for 30 years, was thinking of

  • People

    DCI Marketing, Milwaukee, promoted David Steeno to senior account service coordinator for its Detroit office, and hired Mike Haizel as physical distribution

  • Playing Games in Florida

    Several recent Florida decisions interpreting the Florida game promotion statute could prove useful in planning future promotions. The statute (Section

  • NEW LISTS

    Ziff-Davis-ZD Net ZD Net is a Web-based source for computing and Internet information. The file supplies the names of 600,000 subscribers to this service.Cost:

  • Promoters Do It with Less

    Never before, it appears, have so many done so much with so much less. That’s the theme that runs through promo’s Annual Report of the Promotion Industry