Article: Direct mailers push the envelope

The friends were hanging out and following a familiar script.

How's business? What's new? When's this thing going to turn around?

The cast was a couple of advertising guys, the owner of a professional modeling agency, a commercial photographer, a printer, a sales consultant, a graphic designer and the owner of a direct mail company. All were chewing over the dilemma that they wanted to spread the word about their services but had to be cash-flow hawks eyeballing every nickel. Someone finally suggested they pool their resources. But how?

Ken Taub, an advertising consultant and copywriter, suggested going with tradition but with a twist.

"A direct marketing campaign, but as a group," Taub said.

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