Author

Chief Marketer Staff

  • When Customer Loyalty Lay in Ruin

    Readers looking for Loose Cannon’s usual breezy gloss on direct marketing may wish to skip this column. A month ago, right around the Passover/Easter

  • NEDMA to Honor Stan Rapp at Annual Conference

    Industry legend Stan Rapp of McCann Relationship Marketing will receive the New England Direct Marketing Association’s lifetime achievement award at NEDMA’s

  • Pokmon Plays at Wendy’s

    Pokmon USA, Inc. and Wendy’s kick off a five-week national kids’ meal program on Monday. Kids can collect five different Pokmon toys, each with a set

  • Slipping Past the Filters

    Business-to-business marketers face a particularly thorny problem getting their marketing e-mail delivered. Many companies’ filtering technology halts

  • Allied Domecq Debuts Fusion Rum with $20 Million Campaign

    Allied Domecq Spirits & Wine North America has launched a new Fusion Rum and plans for a major promotion and advertising campaign this fall. With the

  • Interpublic Sells NFO Research for $435 Million

    In an effort to further reduce debt, Interpublic Group plans to sell its NFO research unit to Taylor Nelson Sofres, a provider of marketing research and

  • Baby Boom

    Parents-to-be who are expecting happy bouncing direct marketing offers will find more of them in their mailbox than in their e-mail inbox. The ever-expanding

  • Office Depot Sends Kiosk Mailing

    Office Depot has begun a 3.3 million-piece direct mail campaign to promote its new Ink Depot initiative. Ink Depot is an area in each of Office Depot’s

  • Q&A: Holding Court with King Arthur

    Direct recently talked with King Arthur Flour’s president Steve Voigt and spokesperson Shannon Zappala about the Norwich, VT-based catalog’s recipe for

  • Modeling: No Routine Matter

    Customer relationship management issues frequently cause tension among marketers and data analysts. Analysts are sometimes concerned that the results