listings

| MCM staff

NEW LISTS BLUE MOUNTAIN Selling housewares and personal-care products, the Blue Mountain catalog has 50,000 buyers on its housefile. Customers spend an

The Skinny on Site Safety

| Ken Leonard

Have you ever heard of Web application vulnerabilities, California’s 1386 law, or the security requirements of MasterCard’s Site Data Protection Program

Keeping A-OK with OSHA

| Margery Weinstein

Section 5 (a) (1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, which established the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), states

Fed Spending Shift

| Mark Del Franco

For marketers that sell to the federal government, Christmas in July is more than the title of a Preston Sturges movie or a catchy advertising slogan.

Shades of Success

| Paul Miller

The same people who buy lamps are likely to need rugs and curtains as well. At least that’s what the folks at Shades of Light believe. Having added rugs

Walking the Privacy Tightrope

| Paul Miller

List owners and the list firms that represent them are walking a tightrope these days. During the past two years, a string of privacy actions have forced

Use Tax: States Get Aggressive

| MCM staff

In their persistent efforts to require direct marketers to collect state use taxes, several state legislatures have developed a new aggressive strategy.