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  • Pilot Light

    For many utilities, it doesn’t matter whether they consider themselves the dog, the hat or the race car: The monopoly game will soon be over.As they accept

  • Envoy Drives Correspondence Course

    We feel toward serial mailings the way most people feel toward serial killers. However, unlike serial killers, serial mailings are sometimes amusing.

  • 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

  • Have Book, Will Travel

    Eight-year-old retailer Audio Adventures began direct sales this spring, renting (and selling) mostly through a Web site, www.audioadventures.com.The

  • Introducing the Web Call Center

    Then the call center at IDT Corp. gets swamped, the Hackensack, NJ telecom company turns to Communications Service Center, a Margate, FL service bureau

  • 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:

  • DM Mergers Increase By Almost 100%

    DM mergers, acquisitions and buyouts in the first quarter of 1998 grew 99% over the first quarter of 1997, according to a study released in June by DM

  • Impulse: The Sequel

    Last month we wrote about 1-800-Flowers, Godiva Chocolatier and Eddie Bauer using technology from Narrative Communications Corp. to bring impulse buying

  • Playing Games in Florida

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

  • Chicago Internet Guru Jay Gondelman Dies

    Jay Gondelman, the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing’s interactive guru and partner in Visionautics Inc., died in June of cancer at 50. According