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Will Fallout From Sweeps Lawsuits Affect Response to Consumer Mailings?
THE RECENT CONTROVERSY over the American Family Publishers and Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes contests will cause problems next year for both magazine
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USPS May Have Another $1 Billion Surplus
Unless there’s a sudden and sharp decline in mail volume and revenue, the U.S. Postal Service appears to be heading toward its fourth $1 billion surplus
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Fur Industry
WHILE THE FUR industry is changing to appeal to younger customers, another more subtle-and potentially farther reaching-trend is occurring: greater corporate
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Office Depot Goes to School
Office Depot is using direct mail, coupons and sweepstakes to target the 6.5 million national parent-teacher association (PTA) members who buy school
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Isn’t It Time to Swat That Stupid Millennium Bug?
Which is a more powerful influence on human behavior, marketing or science?Based on the hoopla surrounding the forthcoming millennium, marketing is the
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PR Opt-Out
SOME PR PERSON just sent us a questionnaire asking, How do you wish to be contacted by us?Thanks for asking, but we don’t want to be contacted at all.That’s
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>From Soap to Nuts
ACTRESS SUSAN BATTEN is best known for her role as Luna Moody Holden on the soap opera “One Life to Live.” But she’s recently taken on a new role-catalog
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Overlays on Overdrive
EVEN IN A narrow niche such as diabetic customers, information can provide a competitive edge. Acknowledging this, Franklin Lakes, NJ-based medical supply
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Not at Your Service
THIS IS THE fifth year we’ve done an informal accounting of service standards in the consumer catalog industry. In the past, we generally reviewed about