Can Third-Party Rewards Create First-Class Relationships?

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Do third-party rewards dilute the branding message and relationship program participants have with marketers? Direct Newsline spoke with Jill Goldworn, president and co-founder of rewards and incentives provider TheFirstClub about the challenges and opportunities available to marketers seeking to broaden their reward program offerings.

Q&A: Making Money While Email and Social Media Make Nice

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Now that the talk is less about social media replacing email and more about how the channels complement each other, marketers are striving to ensure that they obtain maximum synergy from using them together. John Foley, Jr., CEO of marketing solutions provider InterlinkONE, discusses the differences between email and social media that make it important…