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  • Aw, Rats-Socks and Underwear!

    I’ve written in this space before about all the nifty, neat, sometimes useful but often downright odd stuff one brings back from conferences.Look around

  • Foster & Gallagher Springs Up on the Web

    Foster & Gallagher, Peoria, IL, the megabig horticultural direct marketer, has been taking a slow approach to the Web, but made a major plunge in late

  • Get Off Your Duff – Take Responsibility

    Despite all that’s been said about the need to learn how to market in an increasingly electronic age, there’s no disputing that hard-copy messaging will

  • OUTDOOR ADVERTISING: Friends Don’t Let Friends Drink and Redeem Coupons

    Sweetwater Tavern in Centreville, VA will never again underestimate the power of direct response advertising.To promote the restaurant, The Dan Rosenthal

  • RadioShack Tunes in a Growth Frequency

    When RadioShack began a program to increase its revenue by 10% and its profit by 20%, prospecting for new customers as a strategy was never considered.

  • Smart Bombing

    The 31 American Tire & Service Co. stores under Scott Hook’s oversight had participated in mass advertising programs before, but in late 1997 Hook wanted

  • Coldwater Creek

    Is there such a place as Coldwater Creek? The image conjures up some far-off place in the mountains, with cool streams and tall pines, a spot we would

  • SIMPLY Irresistible

    1. Send ‘Em One White Sock Too often, “we want you back” appeals are boring.But they don’t have to be. Take a look at what the marketing managers at Ansett

  • GOOD DEAL

    Direct mailers are still pinching themselves to see if the events of the week of May 11 actually happened.On Monday, the Postal Rate Commission recommended

  • Hall of Fame

    Quick-name those people and/or companies you feel had the most influence on the catalog industry over the last few decades. Even harder, name those who