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Agencies

  • What’s Your Hang-Up?

    Spurred on by increasing consumer complaints about hang-up calls, the Direct Marketing Association is expected to release guidelines early next year covering

  • Samples-by-Mail a Hit in Europe

    Household brands may be overlooking the potentially huge impact of sampling activity across Europe, just as door-to-door marketing begins to mature. And

  • Credit Where Credit Is Due

    My New Year’s resolution for 1999 is a simple one: to simplify my life.Toward that end, I decided to cancel the stack of long unused credit cards I had

  • PerformanceData Appeals FTC Ruling

    PerformanceData, the credit information provider formerly known as Trans Union, has appealed the Federal Trade Commission’s August decision that the firm’s

  • Florida Expands Suit Against AFP

    Florida has broadened its lawsuit against American Family Publishers to include allegations that the subscription and prize-promotion firm targeted elderly

  • No Time for Dithering

    Between now and the commencement of the next Congress, the U.S. Postal Service will have its work cut out for itself regarding postal legislative reform.While

  • Circling the Wagons

    Maybe it’s the postage hike, maybe it’s the stock market. Maybe it’s simple list fatigue. But DMers contacted by DIRECT magazine for our annual forecast

  • All Together Now-Not!

    A survey of recent and potential attendees of National Center for Database Marketing conferences shows marked differences in ancillary services valued

  • Our Version of the Boston Tea Party

    My son Bob has devoted several of his weekly columns in the magazine InfoWorld to proposing a holiday that would benefit not just the United States but

  • Moe Money

    And now a little something for the wise guys on your shopping list.Comedy III Entertainment in Glendale, CA has redesigned the Three Stooges Web site,