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  • E-mail Opt-outs: An Uneasy Balance

    Most direct marketers seriously mishandle opt-outs from their e-mail files, two recent studies show.

  • Get to KnowDMAA

    WHAT Direct Marketing Association of Atlanta MEMBERSHIP Some 100 marketers and DM industry vendors WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN The group recently became an independent

  • They’re Not Going Anywhere

    Amusement parks typically bring to mind images of endlessly long ride lines with kids on the verge of meltdown on the hottest day of the year. At Six

  • What’s the Message?

    A big part of the pleasure of reading the latest New Yorker magazine each week has always been its great cartoons. And more often than not there’s at

  • Listline

    NEW LISTS OK! Magazine Eight segments from OK! magazine’s circulation file are available from Northern & Shell North America Ltd. One is a list of 234,771

  • Free Ink

    You Had To Be There. Call in Europe, a new international phone company, threw a press party last December at a New York nightclub. It drew 70 reporters

  • Blue Jean Buzz

    Godes cited Lee Jeans as one company that generated terrific word of mouth for its brand. A few years ago the company connected with players on online

  • VROOOM!

    Top brass from mars inc. may well have been reaching for the champagne during the final minutes of the Daytona 500: The candy-colored Toyota the company

  • Not So Fast

    Oh, the joy. The U.S. Postal Service has announced a May 12 rate increase. But it’s modest as postage hikes go. At deadline, the DMA’s Jerry Cerasale

  • And They’ll Tell Two Friends

    As the old expression goes, it doesn’t matter what they say as long as they spell your name right. But in word-of-mouth marketing that isn’t necessarily