Q&As

In earlier columns I’ve said that mail is under attack in the media and in several state legislatures by those who are striving mightily to reduce direct

Twelve Subway sandwich shop franchises in Buffalo, NY, broke a campaign in mid-August that offers consumers alerts and discount coupons via customers’ cell phones.

To a kid who likes to read, one of the most exciting days of the month at school is when the Scholastic Book Club fliers are distributed. We recently

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute is a nonprofit membership organization in California dedicated to finding signs of life

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has introduced a far-reaching privacy bill that could spell deep trouble for any business that uses so-called personally

I’M GETTING MORE AND MORE STEAMED AT HIT-AND-RUN DIRECT marketers. Who or what are hit-and-runners? They’re the ones who know a couple of action words

HERE’S A STATISTIC THAT PROBABLY SHOULDN’T SURPRISE ANYONE. Of the list companies polled by Direct in its 2006 list use survey (see supplement following

Office Depot has acquired AsiaEC, a large office supplies direct marketer in China.

Neiman Marcus, Inc. posted a net loss of $42 million for the fourth quarter compared to net income of $34.3 million for the same period last year.