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  • Blog Commandments

    In this excerpt from

  • 24/7: Promo Marketers’ Salary Survey

    There are cases when the job possesses the man even after quitting timeit may affect his attitude toward all of life. Studs Terkel, (1972) The great Chicago

  • Ready, Aim, Shop

    U.S. soldiers in Europe will be getting a surprise this summer. They will be handed a free slice of Land O’Lakes deli cheese when they enter their local

  • East Side, West Side, Online

    Earlier this year, NY Skyride was looking for a way to convey its high-tech pizzazz to Web visitors. It had to be snazzy and engaging: Competition for the Big Apple tourist dollar is tight, and NY Skyride, a 12-minute Imax tour of the city’s landmarks housed on the second floor of the Empire State Building, faced a unique challenge.

  • American Blogstand

    A pilot program in which news was turned into song became the second most popular video feature on Boston.com last month.

  • Start at the End

    It’s not easy being a marketer these days.

    For one thing, you have to measure the impact of your campaigns. And that’s a challenge when you’re using multiple media.

  • Too Much Togetherness?

    If you lived through the dot-com bubble, you could be excused for thinking you’d slipped through a wormhole in time and landed back in 1999. In rapid-fire succession, a slew of the biggest online ad players announced plans to get a lot bigger by acquiring platforms, technologies or expertise they hadn’t had before.

  • Serving Sprite

    What do kids in China and the U.S. have in common? Cell phones. That’s what Sprite is banking on as it launches The Sprite Yard, a social network accessible

  • Tuff Luck

    Those in direct marketing know Frenzy by another name, Tom McCulloh, senior account manager with healthcare database firm SK&A Information Services. But aficionados of late ’70s/early ’80s punk know him as the lead singer of the band Tuff Darts.

  • Here, There and Everywhere

    It was roughly 40 years ago that sgt. pepper told the band to play and the Beatles ushered in the modern rock era with their most psychedelic album. Not