Highly recommended Best Reading - Articles, Books, and Publications

Direct Marketing Industry Trade Publications
  • American Demographics  Advertising Age acquired American Demographics in November 2004 and relaunched it in February 2005 as a monthly report in Ad Age.
  • Business Mailers Review , 1813 Shepherd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011-5398
  • DIRECT Magazine covers every aspect of Direct marketing, including postal and regulatory issues, creative, lists, customer relationship management and database marketing.
  • Direct Marketing Magazine  - The monthly online magazine for Direct Marketers. Since 1938, providing in-depth feature articles, case studies, news coverage, and more."
  • DM News, published weekly, circulated free to qualified professionals. For free qualified subscription call 212-741-2095 or mail to DM News, PO Box 3055, Langhorne, PA. 19047. 
  • Mondo Times Find newspapers, magazines, radio & TV stations and news agencies around the world.
  • Multichannel Merchant Magazine exclusively serves catalog companies and on-line merchants, as well as retailers, manufacturers and wholesale/distributors, who sell goods via print catalogs and/or transactional websites.
  • Target Marketing Magazine , North American Publishing, 401 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19108 
  • Web Marketing Today publishes a free version each Wednesday to help subscribers stay abreast of Internet Marketing developments.

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Recommended list of Direct Marketing Books:       To Top

Listed below are some of the best.  Even older books still offer a wealth of valuable information. A good source for finding these is Amazon.com

  • Permission Marketing - By Seth Godin, Simon & Schuster
  • One-To-One Marketing - Peppers & Rogers, Doubleday Books
  • Direct Marketing - How to use the Internet, Direct Mail, and Other Media, George Duncan
  • The Greatest Direct Mail Sales Letters of All Time, by Richard Hodgson, Dartnell Publishing
  • The Complete Direct Mail List Handbook, by Ed Burnett, Prentice Hall, $49.95.
  • How To Start And Operate A Mail Order Business, by Julian Simon, McGraw Hill Publishing
  • Integrated Marketing Communications, Don Schultz, Stanley Tannenbaum, Robert Lauterborn
  • Business To Business Direct Marketing, by Tracy Emerick, Direct Marketing Publishing
  • Books available from Direct Marketing Association click on DMA Bookstore or call 1.800.344.8328.

Many of the books listed are available in your public or university library.  Llibraries also often have other worth while direct mail/mail order "how to" books.

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