Chief Marketer Staff

• Deliverability Woes? Take the Blame Yourself

  About 20% of permission-based e-mails, on average, are treated by Internet service providers as spam, according to a new report. Sound familiar? Well,

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  Sweet Segments

  Hershey Entertainment and Resorts has increased its revenue by 17% and room bookings by 10% over the past year, thanks to segmenting direct mail to its

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  Open Those Pockets

  Most marketers today are lamenting how difficult it is to keep their brands afloat during these recessionary times. The conversation often turns to depressionary

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  Premium Grades

  As with many other marketing channels this year, flat seems to be the new up for companies surveyed in the 2009 Promo Premiums and Incentives survey.

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  Roll With It

  To launch a new product early next year, Cinnabon is considering double-dipping on a direct mail strategy from last year that got a 4.5% response rate

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  The New Reward: Prepaid Cards; It’s Showtime

  Seeking to avoid the ire heaved at corporate overindulgence, companies are rewarding high-performing employees (and customers) with prepaid incentive

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  Show Them The Money

  the mere scent wafting through the air of Omaha Steaks grilling one of its juicy tenderloins can send trade show attendees scurrying to locate the source.

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  The “Wow” Files

  Last month, Sci Fi, the science fiction channel, unveiled to viewers its name change to Syfy, a trade-marketable brand name that reflects a broader range

• Joe Goes Hollywood

  Way back in 1964, G.I. Joe first marched into toy aisles, commanding action figures portraying the various branches of the U.S. military. This summer,

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  Tweet-Tourage

  By erasing the lag time between message blast and message viewing, Twitter is shaping up as a very useful platform for running real-time promotional campaigns