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Agencies

  • Micrografx Blows Chance to Reel in Prospectx

    An industrial-strength software company conceals a major product introduction with clevernessSometimes you can’t be sure what an ad’s real purpose is.Is

  • Watching the Watchers

    For more than 60 years Consumer Reports has provided independent and impartial opinions on a variety of products and services in its mission “to test

  • Sweeps Still Under Scrutiny

    The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) will keep up the pressure on unscrupulous direct-mailers once federal legislation begins this year.”We’ve

  • British Persuasion

    Here’s a success story from the if-you-build-it-they-will-come file: Simple postcards drummed up attendance for three-day tours of rock shows in London.Boston-based

  • End Game

    Viatical settlements are a $100 billion industry that no one wants to talk about.”It’s a little thing about death and money,” says entrepreneur Sean Strub,

  • Circular Logic

    In some circles, Dan Snyder may be better known for buying the Washington Redskins than he is for masterminding Snyder Communications Inc. The Bethesda,

  • “Y2K” Doesn’t Mean “You’re too Cute”

    Anyone who thought the coming millennium would bring a new and clearer dimension to conventional advertising had better take some melatonin and disappear

  • Kiss and Digi-Tell: DIRECT polls readers on their e-commerce practices

    “more” sums up the attitude of respondents to DIRECT’s annual survey of e-commerce marketing practices. More spending. More media used. More functions.The

  • Frankly, My Dear, Do They Give a Damn?

    Watching the give and take among proponents and opponents of postal legislative reform has been fascinating. Proponents – and I’m one – have struggled

  • Foreign DM Trade Missions Set

    In its efforts to make foreign countries hospitable to American direct marketers, International Direct Marketing Consultants Inc. of Dallas has announced