Chief Marketer Staff

• Xerox to Open Call Center in Texas

  Xerox Corp., Rochester, NY, said it will open a “Tele-Web Center” in Irving, TX, in mid-June. The facility will add about 200 jobs in the Dallas area,

• Skytel, eBay Said to Launch Wireless Auction Service

  Wireless telephone marketer SkyTel, Jackson, MS, is teaming up with online auctioneer eBay Inc. to establish a wireless person-to-person online auction

• Chemdex Signs on University of California, San Francisco

  Chemdex Corp., Palo Alto, CA, which sells scientific supplies over the Internet, has signed a contract with the University of California, San Francisco

• MSGI Completes Acquisition of CMG Direct

  Direct marketing services firm Marketing Services Group Inc., based in New York, has completed the acquisition of CMG Direct Corp. No terms were disclosed.In

• Rodale to Use Acxiom’s Solvitur

  Rodale Press, the Emmaus, PA-based magazine publisher, has reached an agreement to receive a “customer-centric” marketing solution and integrated campaign

• Short Cuts

  DM agency Georges & Murray Direct, Raleigh, NC, has hired Barbara Ketchum as production supervisor and Christon Fagan as account coordinator. Ketchum

• DIRECT Listline

  Alternative Medicine Advisor A 70,000-name list of 1998-1999 subscribers to this newsletter.Cost: $105/MSelections: Quarterly hotline, gender, state/SCF/ZIPContact:

• SkyMall Names Partners for New Travel Site

  SkyMall Inc., Phoenix, Friday named its initial partners for skymalltravel.com, a new travel Web site targeted to frequent flyers that will provide one-stop

• JoAnne Dunn Moves to The Credit Index

  The Credit Index, Mount Arlington, NJ, has hired list expert JoAnne M. Dunn as senior vice president of sales and marketing. Dunn had been with Mal Dunn

• Medicine Overtakes Computers in Web Advertising

  Although computers and software continued to be the top spenders in Internet advertising with $461.8 million last year, their share of total Web advertising