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  • Targeting Drives Growth

    Marketers’ purchase of nearly $12 billion in ad specialties last year represented record growth of 25 percent from 1996.While most of the growth in 1996

  • 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

  • Brokers Break Bread

    American List Counsel Inc.’s executive vice president Fran Green and president Donn Rappaport welcomed more than 100 brokers in May to the firm’s second

  • Britannia Cools Its Heels?

    Brits always claim to produce the best advertising in the world. Something about our quirky sense of humor and literate consumer base leads to the often-repeated

  • 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

  • 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

  • Blue’s Clues Land on Campbell Soup and in Subway

    Those blue paw prints of Nickelodeon’s newest hit character, Blue, are turning up with two additional partners this summer and fall.Blue, the animated

  • 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:

  • Promo Agencies Ride the Wave

    Whether it was due to clients’ insatiable desire for measurable results, a new urge to drive brand image with premiums and contests, or simply a thriving