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Sweetening the Pot
Publishing files, once the most basic of lists, are now being offered to mailers with a variety of bells and whistles, including modeling, regression
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THE DEL POLITO LETTER
Postal rate cases usually center on four basic tasks: defining the amount of new revenue needed to ensure break-even operation; tracing back and attributing
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U.S. Bank Mailing Succeeds Despite Low Response
Once upon a time there was a direct marketing campaign that didn’t get any response.What-no flurry of telephone calls? No BRCs returned? Nothing.Not that
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Hochberg Made SBA Deputy Administrator
Cataloger Fred P. Hochberg, former president/CEO of Lillian Vernon Corp., was sworn in last month as deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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Columbia House Starts a Positive-Option Club
Columbia House has introduced “Play,” its first music club to operate on a positive-option basis rather than the negative option most often used by such
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Kemmler’s Law
Moments before becoming the first man ever to go to the electric chair, William Kemmler complained about his press coverage. “I’m bad enough,” he said.
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DEMOGRAPHICS
Dustin Hoffman gave us our first image of a man raising a child in “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But it was the image of Michael Keaton at home that gave the concept
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Words of Wisdom, 1998 Style
There’s a reason we keep buying those little books with clever sayings. You can get a ton of wisdom in just a few sentences. But there is no reason to
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The Mark(eting) of Zorro
We must confess that Zorro was our first career choice. We could never understand why our parents were upset when we ran down the corridor to carve Zs