Topic

Direct Mail

  • Rx for Direct Mail Headaches

    Direct mail is still considered one of the most economical means of communicating key messages to customers. However, those involved in direct mail production

  • 20 Plus

    Granted, you may not have been waiting for this milestone. But Direct is now 20 years old. It debuted in October 1988 and started appearing monthly shortly

  • Listline

    NEW LISTS Forbes Wireless Insider Worldata offers a list of 13,587 subscribers to Forbes’ weekly e-mail newsletter for investors interested in mobile

  • Pretty Pictures, Little Else

    Marketing guru Jonathan Salem Baskin has just published a book called Branding Only Works on Cattle. The publisher is promoting it this way: Most people

  • Have I Got a Candidate for You!

    In the best of all possible worlds, judges rule with gravitas from their benches. And in the best of all possible direct marketing worlds, their election

  • Letters to the Editor

    SOME FONTS CAN BE DEPRESSING After reading Richard H. Levey’s article Mad Money (August), I just have to say that my mail is replete with starbursts and

  • Danger: No-Mail Zone

    Despite stepped-up efforts by the direct marketing industry to head off state do-not-mail bills, the number of proposals continues to grow. These measures,

  • Past Tense

    Yeah, sure. Tell us all about how the world has changed in 20 years. Let’s seein 1988 we were talking about Gary Hart’s womanizing. Disgraced in ’87,

  • Menopauseland: The Place to Be

    Amerifit Brands has added more than 40,000 names to its database thanks to a $20 million DRTV, print and online effort to boost Web site traffic. Amerifit

  • A Steady Clip

    The Sunday paper is still many consumers’ go-to resource for their weekend dose of The Family Circus. But when it comes to getting coupons to feed their