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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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The Detective, the Mailroom, and the Bet Before the Clients Arrived
Media · Enterprise

The Detective, the Mailroom, and the Bet Before the Clients Arrived

A retired detective bought a tiny direct-mail shop with no computer, then used a recession to make the expensive move nobody recommends: hiring the agency before the agency had clients.

marketing-agency · integrated-marketingRead →
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DME Delivers
Media · Enterprise · Ecommerce

DME Delivers

For forty years, most of the marketing world has been racing away from paper. A family-run shop in Daytona Beach built a business by running toward it - and teaching universities how to make a donor feel like more than a line in a database.

direct-mail · direct-marketingRead →
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Staples
Ecommerce · Enterprise · Consumer

Staples

Staples spent four decades selling the things that make work possible. Its more interesting act is turning a familiar office-supply store into the place where America finishes the fiddly jobs the internet cannot.

office-supplies · workplace-solutionsRead →