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  • Marketing to Today’s Teens: The Same but Different

    Accounting for 25% of the population in the United States, Generation Y not only provides a huge current market, but it also provides the possibility of gaining lifelong brand loyalty.

  • The Best Marketing Investment You Can Make

    I’m going to let you in on a little secret, one that’s helped me and many of our clients succeed where others have merely tread water. It’s not technology, it’s not advertising, and it’s not partnerships.

  • Absolutely Pitiful E-Commerce Shopping Cart Abandonment Stats…and Four Ways to Improve Yours

    I was completely unprepared to hear the horrible truth. We’ve interviewed dozens of top e-commerce marketers over the years for MarketingSherpa case studies, and when we asked them, ‘What’s your cart abandonment rate?”

  • The Tech Trek

    When promo shop Colangelo wanted to brainstorm some new in-store marketing ideas, it invited 100 clients and a handful of high-tech vendors in for a drink.

  • Gen Y Phones It In

    A LITTLE TOLERANCE FOR THE younger generation, please: That brat walking just ahead of you staring obsessively at her cell phone may be accessing your

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    INSIGHTFUL REPORTING Larry Riggs’ article about the Kellogg School of Management’s direct marketing program (Revised Curriculum, July) was informative

  • One Hot Dog

    You’re driving down the interstate when suddenly you’re passing a 27-foot long truckshaped like a giant hot dog. Do you: A: Floor it, putting maximum

  • The Right Combination

    FRUSTRATED ABOUT HOW TO ATTRIBUTE CREDIT FOR SALES AND brand-building success? You’re not alone. It’s a hot topic given the amount of money spent on digital

  • LISTLINE

    NEW LISTS Ampli-Ear This is a list of 155,956 Ampli-Ear hearing aid buyers. Three-quarters were age 60 or older and their average order was $25. Direct

  • A Big Mac and $1 Million, Please

    Some people view dining at McDonald’s as a way to quickly satisfy hunger. For others, at least for a few weeks out of the year, it’s a moneymaking opportunity.