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  • Do I Need This Tonight?

    IT WAS TOO EASY. Since there hasn’t been much else on TV this summer, my husband and I have found ourselves watching way too many reality shows. Three

  • Writing the Wrongs

    MARKETING COPYWRITERS, mind your modifiers! Take a lesson from the Ottawa furniture store that sent out a Mother’s Day flier advertising Soft Stools for

  • TIMELINE

    Aug. 18, 2005 A former computer engineer for America Online was sentenced to 15 months in prison for stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses

  • Chain Uses Data to Pamper Guests

    WHAT MORE CAN A HOTEL chain do for guests beyond providing them with fabled castles and secluded lodges in 44 locations? Ask Fairmont Hotels & Resorts.

  • Can Web Cure Drug Marketing Ills?

    PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES are taking flak on several fronts for the direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising they’ve been doing for the last several years.

  • Hiding in Our Rooms

    GAS IS EXPENSIVE, TRAFFIC IS TERRIBLE, THE MOVIE theaters show only junk, parks are overcrowded, and going almost anywhere seems to cost more than you

  • LISTLINE

    NEW LISTS Shade Tree Files Catalog customers who bought products and accessories for motorcycles, water sports and all-terrain vehicles are included on

  • PROMO Xtra

    Excerpts from our e-newsletter 8/17 Sears, Roebuck and Co. will consolidate its reported $640 million advertising account for Sears and its private-label

  • Q&A: Sampling Sense

    First-hand experience of a product can dramatically impact a consumer’s purchase intent of a brand. We asked folks at top agencies (drawn from the PROMO

  • A New Buying Cycle for Christmas

    Online retailers, fearing the Santa Claus may not make it through airport security lines this December, will be stepping up their holiday marketing. They’ll