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  • Good Vibes

    NASCAR racing is less well known in the western U.S. than in the rest of the country. So when Tosco Marketing wanted to help the racing league celebrate

  • 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

  • Special Deliveries, on Target

    Specialty printing posted no revenue growth last year, but industry sources say that demand for products including game pieces and high-quality direct

  • Coming in next month’s PROMO

    Fresh Look, New Start Fox Family Channel starts the biggest cable TV launch ever this month when it takes control of the former Family Channel. Fox is

  • Net Tax Relief Bill Gains in House

    LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO stop state and local governments from imposing new taxes on Internet transactions for at least three years and creating a special

  • Relationship Marketing and the New DM

    This December McGraw-Hill will publish the third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing.” Over the next few issues we’ll offer

  • Call It What It Is

    He propose that articles about spam in the press and other media ought to be called spam as well. They’re about as prevalent and intrusive. Case in point: