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Agencies

  • Directnewsline

    McCann-Erickson: Direct Mail Keeps Pace Direct mail expenditures were expected to increase by 7.5% during 1998, keeping pace with national advertising

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Salt Lake City

    Looking for solutions selling ideas? Check out Salt Lake City. The hometown of American Stores is the No. 1 city for aisle markets, in 97 percent of supermarkets.

  • What You Use Might Hurt You

    Direct marketers are so busy gathering information on consumers that they often don’t take the time to consider the wisdom of using personal data. A new

  • Consumer DM Stocks Make a Comeback

    Rebounding from a volatile summer, consumer direct marketing stocks regained some ground in late fall after months of market uncertainty.The 54 consumer

  • What Stores Want

    Forget national sweepstakes, the Internet, and tear pads. Retailers would rather have your demos, shipper displays, and a few extra bucks for direct mail.That’s

  • Gender Vendors

    The French say “vive la difference” when it comes to the sexes. Direct marketers, however, are more divided on the topic of gender.Men’s Health, for example,

  • People

    Medi-Promotions Inc., Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, named Gerald McMurtry president. Carl Roselle, Jeff King, Kenneth Kind, Robert Hopfan and Karen Kohlan were

  • Survey Shows Wasted Telecom Opportunities

    In the wake of deregulation in Europe, the huge opportunities for telecommunications suppliers are being underexploited as a result of poor direct marketing

  • Creating Cookie Monsters

    It’s true there are some things you can’t start teaching kids too soon-reading, for example. But marketing? I dunno. But the Girl Scouts of America seem

  • UMB’s ATM DBM

    Here’s the fantasy: The security camera stationed at the automated teller machine you’re using notes that you have a large ketchup stain on your jacket.