Throughout the current election process, they have spoken. Loud. And clear. They have participated in the primaries of both major parties in droves. Now that the candidates are set, they will be the ones who determine which one becomes the next President of the United...

The USPS has a vision for the future of direct mail. In the face of mounting competition, the Postal Service is imagining ways to better defend its position as the leading provider of contact and delivery mail services. Amid signs that some of direct marketing’s most...

One of the many subsets of the Internet of Things is wearables. It would seem that the early momentum in the wearable space favors the wrist. First among them continues to be fitness trackers, followed by smartwatches. (Other forms of wearables are certainly promising...

Perhaps the most vexing problem with using TV to reach direct response targets has been…targeting. Advertisers have always been challenged to know who is seeing what. As the old client lament goes, “I’m wasting half my money, I just don’t know which half.” Enter...

The exigent price increase granted to the United States Postal Service as a way to recover lost revenue in the wake of the Great Recession expired on April 10, 2016. While debate continued until the eleventh hour, the direct mail industry has just received what should...

Business mailing list growth is on everyone’s…list. One of the best ways to grow a list of business contacts is through the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes that identifies every business by industry category. The SIC Code system was created back...