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Premium Incentives: Promotional Peaks
Promotional Products Association International, Irving, TX, bestows its annual Golden Pyramid Awards on campaigns whose use of premiums best relate to
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E-mail Intelligence
Jay Schwedelson, corporate vice president of list company Worldata/WebConnect in Boca Raton, FL, is grounded in both the postal and e-mail list businesses.
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Mailers Build Do-It-Yourself Lists
RENTED LISTS might work for most mailers, but they don’t for select firms that serve non-traditional markets. Take Science Kit & Boreal Laboratories (SK),
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They’re Catching On
SLOWLY BUT SURELY, postal lists containing e-mail selects and appends have begun appearing on the market. Some mailers are testing these combined files.
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Eavesdropping on Shoppers
Tim White listens to women. He once watched a woman walk into The Great Indoors, Sears’ two-year-old housewares chain, and pull out her cell phone. She
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Premium Incentives: Behind the Scenes
There’s a reason why plastic gift cards aren’t recyclable: They carry entire computer systems along with them. OK, not really. But now that the migration
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Wet Seal to Relaunch Catalog
Apparel dealer The Wet Seal Inc. will relaunch its direct marketing business in July with a 1.2-million-copy catalog mailing. The book will include some
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It’s Sweet, It’s Cute But What Is It Really Saying?
President Calvin Coolidge once famously observed, When too many people are out of work, unemployment results. This month’s candidate for a makeover offers
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Premium Incentives: The Secretarial Prize Pool
Workers of the world, unite. Incentives aren”t just for salespeople anymore. Once used exclusively to inspire the favored-son sales staff, employee motivation
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DESIGNING for Discounts
IF YOU’VE EVER DEVELOPED a direct mail package, you probably have experienced this scenario: You create a beautiful, eye-catching mail piece and are careful