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  • What’s Hot and What’s Not

    The great majority of consumers continued to cling to coupons, advertising rebounded as a percentage of promotional activity, and account-specific programs

  • Agencies: Who’s News

    Global Branding Omnicom agency TLP has formed TLPlanet, branding a new global agency network for handling its world business. TLPlanet’s backbone are

  • Taking Tea with Barbie

    At 10 a.m. on Oct. 10, every Wal-Mart store in America, all 2,500 of them, will put up a poster on the front door inviting girls of all ages to attend

  • GET BACK TO THE BASICS

    “BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU wish for.” For business-to-business marketers, this old adage has never been more true.B-to-Bers have abundant sales and marketing

  • An Embarrassment of Riches

    CHECKS. CHECKS. CHECKS.I’m looking at $223,367 worth of checks sent to me over the past few weeks. The biggest one is for $80,000. The smallest (piker!)

  • DB Suits Clothiers

    CONNECTICUT-BASED upscale men’s clothing retailer Richard’s of Greenwich has seen sales increase 20% annually since 1995, when it adopted the database

  • NEW LISTS

    Direct Sales Inc. The 90,000 individuals listed responded by phone to a Direct Sales mail piece offering a chance to win various prizes. Everyone on the

  • TOYS IN THE BANDWIDTH: PHIL POLISHOOK, VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING

    When it comes to being an Internet-based category killer, many hear the call but few are chosen. One of the latter is eToys (www.etoys.com), which a year

  • Why 2K?

    Ask yourself: After it’s over, what are you going to have to remember it by besides the Y2K debacle?Corporate premium buyers are asking themselves that

  • A Is for Advocacy

    Okay, class, open your notebooks, this material will be included in the final exam.Contrary to popular wisdom, the marketing continuum does not begin