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  • The Check Is the Mail

    THROUGH A solicitation effort printed onto a double postcard refund check statement, Publishers Clearing House not only realized a cost savings, but opened

  • Wizard Charges Into Affinity Cards

    THE AFFINITY CREDIT CARD is to Wizard Entertainment what the utility belt is to Batman.The Congers, NY-based publisher of magazines for fans of comics,

  • Merge Splurge

    ACXIOM CORP. now owns Direct Media and May & Speh. The U.K.’s Great Universal Stores owns Experian, which owns Metromail. Harte-Hanks, which ditched its

  • Cut and Paste

    WHEN MY SISTER and I were little, our mother used to save all the holiday catalogs she received. On Christmas, she would take them out and give them to

  • Web Wonders

    CAN IT REALLY be true that the first primitive offers on the World Wide Web originated only four years ago? We’ve come a long way, baby, and by millennium

  • A DM Theme Park

    There are industrial parks for everything else. Why not direct marketing?That’s part of the logic behind DM41, a business park scheduled to open this

  • Will They Open the Envelope?

    THE USE OF specific name, even if that name is misspelled, is the most influential factor in enticing consumers to open an envelope, according to a study

  • LISTLINE

    Delia’s Buys Fulcrum Lists Delia’s Inc., New York, has acquired the trademarks and mailing lists from Fulcrum Direct Inc., a privately held catalog company

  • Eye in the Sky

    RBIS’ SightFlight, a nonprofit flying eye hospital, increased its donor file by 15 times after testing aviation lists.The organization’s core file of

  • A Perfect Pitch

    Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa weren’t the only ones to make baseball history this summer. Even a 10-year-old can hit a home run with a direct mail campaign