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Paper: the fifth color

Paper: the fifth color

Variable Data Inkjet is all the rage these days—and it should be. After all, it offers marketers the long-awaited opportunity to achieve higher response rates through four-color, highly personalized one-to-one communications. But for Variable Data Printing (VDP) to be...

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Put Your Flag Up This Memorial Day!

Put Your Flag Up This Memorial Day!

The other week I asked my 16 year old to mail a letter, and was stunned to realize that he did not know that you could put an outgoing first class stamped letter in the mailbox, put the flag up and have the USPS letter carrier, pick it up and deliver it. Simple,...

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Green Means Good Business

Green Means Good Business

The Direct Mail Industry is one of the few industries where the interests of the “green movement” and those of good business align. While this assertion might not seem intuitive at first, it is important to examine the industry away from one line jabs on the side of a...

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