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Agencies

  • The Phillips Upgrade

    Phillips Publishing Inc. has expanded its database marketing capacity at its 50-station inbound call center in Potomac, MD, as part of a three-year automation

  • The Art of Renewals

    THERE IS A legend among circulation directors about a renewal pitch done by Mad magazine back in its heyday.Although Mad did not try to acquire subscribers,

  • Stocking the Mailbox

    TWO RECENT creative packages used foodstuffs to try and cut through the mailbox clutter.Boston’s Direct Response Group developed a campaign to generate

  • Nike Has Michael Jordan, the Pope Has the Frito Bandito

    NIKE IS THE archetype of the fin-de-sihcle marketer: Big, gutsy, proud, fearless and moderately unscrupulous.Some degree of mourning has to drop Nike’s

  • Funny Business

    TOP US IF you’ve heard this one. What do Basil Fawlty and a young Obi Wan Kenobi have in common? Not much-unless you count an authoritative manner and

  • B-to-B Computer Products Lead Gain

    SHOWING impressive fourth quarter earnings that exceeded many analysts’ predictions, business-to-business computer products catalogers and marketers provided

  • Bull Direct Marketer

    SINCE THAT sports thing didn’t work out for local hoopster Michael Jordan, it’s good he has something else to fall back on: direct marketing.In addition

  • Playboy’s Online Libido

    PLAYBOY’S LAWSUITS against Netscape Communications Corp. and Excite apparently are more than mere trademark disputes. At stake may be leadership of the

  • Making the Most of a Painful Mistake

    IN JANUARY, Christophe Pettus, president of San Francisco adult product DMer Blowfish, broached the idea of scaling back the company’s paper catalog to