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  • Breakthrough Promos Rest on Basic Questions

    The promotion industry grows more competitive and cluttered every day. When the first radio commercial aired in 1922, it was probably the only promotion

  • Targeting Drives Growth

    Marketers’ purchase of nearly $12 billion in ad specialties last year represented record growth of 25 percent from 1996.While most of the growth in 1996

  • Casting the Net

    Ed Mufson’s company is the ’90s version of the fabled DM kitchen table start-up. A year ago, Mufson, who’s been in retail for 30 years, was thinking of

  • People

    DCI Marketing, Milwaukee, promoted David Steeno to senior account service coordinator for its Detroit office, and hired Mike Haizel as physical distribution

  • Conspiracy Revealed: Intrigue-ing DM Campaign

    He cover for the Oldsmobile Intrigue/”X-Files” movie direct mail piece was a plain brown envelope, which makes sense, given the television show’s bent

  • DM Mergers Increase By Almost 100%

    DM mergers, acquisitions and buyouts in the first quarter of 1998 grew 99% over the first quarter of 1997, according to a study released in June by DM

  • Relationship Marketing and the New DM

    This December McGraw-Hill will publish the third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing.” Over the next few issues we’ll offer

  • Consumer DM Soars

    Strong results on Main Street are translating into market-beating returns on Wall Street for consumer direct marketing companies.Over the 12 months ended

  • You Beta, You Beta, You Bet

    A FEW TRENDS have come to light in our semiannual roundup of new database products. Most strikingly, the advent of increasingly powerful desktop computers

  • 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