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The Net’s Horsepower
One reason shopping online proved so popular over this past holiday season was that the Web offered truly novel gifts, available nowhere at retail.Here’s
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Pay to Play
Database Investment has continued unabated from last year, according to DIRECT’s annual reader survey. Once again, just over half of our respondents indicated
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Account-Specific Spotlight: Buffalo
Buffalo is big on food. The upstate New York market ranks fourth in the nation in all-commodity dollar volume. It ranks No. 1 among supermarkets offering
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RAPP COLLINS: LABOR OF LOVE
Who says you can’t have a hard nose for business and a heart of mush? Ask any of the designers, copywriters, marketers or other Rapp Collins staffers
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Keeping in Touch
Three-Martini lunches are kind of like the 1960s-if you remember them, you weren’t there. By the time all parties sobered up, a contract had been signed,
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The Europeans Are Coming!
The U.S. Postal Service has stopped poking its finger into the eye of domestic competitors by abandoning the use of comparative advertisements.While these
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LESTER WUNDERMAN: SECOND ACT
Since leaving Wunderman Cato Johnson a year ago at age 77, Lester Wunderman has-as he has done many times before-reinvented himself.Wunderman no longer
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Taking the Suds Out of Sweepstakes
Without warning, authorities in various states have taken a sudden, renewed interest in the marketing of alcoholic beverages. These initiatives have compelled
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Virtual Fantom
Lynn Fantom, K2 Design Inc.’s CEO, wouldn’t be surprised if e-commerce profits doubled next Christmas. “The penetration of the market is still low enough
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High-Speed Steel Sales
Major Steel Mills and value-added resellers are about to have an independent online trading forum available to them with e-steel (www.e-steel.com), a