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H&R Block is giving customers something to remember the brand during tax season—tissue packs.

Science News has mailed out two different efforts touting identical offers. A more conservative effort comes from The Paulist National Catholic Evangelization Association, which urges consumers to donate to a prison ministry program. X-treme Geek’s 64-page spring catalog offers a variety of gadgets and novelty items that promote geek chic.

A gain in Q4 sales at Design Within Reach was not enough to bring 2006 into the black for the San Francisco-based furniture maker and multichannel seller.

With only a few days left, Roto-Rooter has brought in 290,000 entries in a sweepstakes that gives away a toilet.

ABC is launching a branding campaign targeting college campuses and New York City streets to promote late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live.

As per my annual tradition, I offer the following column. I am presenting it again because — just as the stories surrounding Passover and Easter are re-told every year — so too does this one deserve a re-telling.

Readers looking for Loose Cannon’s usual breezy gloss on direct marketing may wish to skip this column. This true story, of how one merchant who valued his customers acted when his business was threatened, does not have a happy ending.

It’s easy to see what Canadian consumers got from a recent Bank of Nova Scotia sweepstakes. More than 90 who registered at a special Web site won free

The word is out. The Postal Regulatory Commission has issued a schedule of recommended rates that could very well be the death knell for some of our industry’s

Last May the U.S. Postal Service filed a rate case that kicked off 10 months of hearings before the Postal Rate Commission and much speculation. Then,

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