Topic

Direct Mail

  • What Happens When You Talk to Your Prospect?

    When a business owner decides to write to their customers, he or she draws from what they know best. And the writing style they use may be the one learned when they were probably least interested in writing about anything: in high school.

  • Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail

    Macy’s Teams Up with Project Runway From L’Oreal makeup and Tresemm

  • Salesmanship, Repetition and Direct Mail

    Sales start with business publication advertising

  • A Direct Mail Hero

    Ralph Ginzburg, who died last month at age 76, was a publisher, a direct marketer, an author and a photographer. But he will be most remembered for the

  • Rate Shock

    MANY DIRECT MARKETERS ARE still in shock after seeing the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed rates for standard mail parcels weighing less than a pound. If

  • Preserving paper collectibles is in the bag for Randolph, MA business

    Casual comic book enthusiasts read their periodicals and then toss them on the coffee table. Would a serious collector do that? Would Superman leave a chunk of kryptonite lying around the Fortress of Solitude? They turn to businesses like Bill Cole Enterprises, which sells Mylar sleeves, backing boards and other preservation supplies for paper collectibles like money, magazines, and yes, funny books.

  • Full Disclosure

    The U.S. Postal Service has a problem: It needs to improve customer relations. But that’s a tall order given the uncertainty of postal reform legislation passage, the new rate case and the promise of large annual increases because of the escrow account issue.

  • Educate Yourself

    THE POSTAL INDUSTRY IS UNDER attack, and it’s time people in our business took it seriously. Too many who make their living from the mail are turning

  • The Doctor Is In

    Another humdrum night? Maybe it’s time to go out and hear some live jazz in a garden conservatory setting. But where? How about the hospital? It wouldn’t

  • Great-West Woos Dentists

    TALK ABOUT DRILLING DOWN: Great-West Life Assurance Co. increased its coverage of dentists by 7% by offering enhanced benefits and changing its list segmentation.