Topic

Agencies

  • Successful team selling

    Customers evaluate your company’s sales and service based on how well you provide accurate information and quick solutions. Seamless customer support

  • The Thrill of Sales, The Agony of Service

    How exciting it is for direct marketers to consummate real business over the phone and the Internet! How sad it is that customer service and support,

  • BIG-TIME KID STUFF

    Blame it on B’omarr Monk.The spidery-looking droid from “Star Wars”-who only appears in “Return of the Jedi” for a few seconds-inadvertently led toy titan

  • Fair Game

    The London DM Fair is going global.The event-scheduled for March 16-18-has been rechristened the International Direct Marketing Fair. Twelve thousand

  • Man of the World: DRAFT IS DIRECT MARKETER OF YEAR

    Howard Draft, chairman/CEO of DraftWorldwide, is CADM’s 1999 Charles S. Downs Chicago Direct Marketer of the Year. At age 45, he’s the youngest-ever recipient

  • Some Thoughts on 1999

    1999 not only marks the end of a decade, but the end of a 10-year period during which direct marketers were constantly urged to change their management

  • Checkout

    Shopping Is Thirsty Work The outlet mall moguls at Prime Retail are pinning their promotional plans on cans of Coca-Cola. The Baltimore-based property

  • Pay to Play

    Database Investment has continued unabated from last year, according to DIRECT’s annual reader survey. Once again, just over half of our respondents indicated

  • The Net’s Horsepower

    One reason shopping online proved so popular over this past holiday season was that the Web offered truly novel gifts, available nowhere at retail.Here’s

  • RAPP COLLINS: LABOR OF LOVE

    Who says you can’t have a hard nose for business and a heart of mush? Ask any of the designers, copywriters, marketers or other Rapp Collins staffers