Chief Marketer Staff

• Sitings

  CLEANING UP THE STY www.pigglywiggly.comI don’t much care for the grocer’s online “smiling character,” Mr. Pig whose snout is plastered all over the site.

• Promo News

  Going PRO: OptionOne tops U.S. winners in ’98 World PRO Awards of Excellence.CHICAGO – Minneapolis agency OptionOne snagged the award for Best Promotion

• Points of Switch

  Warner-Lambert faced a challenge two years ago when it wanted to extend sampling of its anti-itch cream Benadryl to reach heavy users. The drugmaker could

• Who’s News

  Cross-Sell Advantage Earl Palmer Brown Cos. continued its shopping spree last month when it bought BEN Marketing, the 9-year-old Stamford, CT, promo agency

• Conference Schedule

  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 9:00am – 5:00pm – Registration10:00am – 12:30pm – Promotion U Workshop12:30pm -1:30pm – Lunch-on-your-own1:30pm – 5:00pm – Promotion

• Agencies

  100 Voodoo Dolls to Palo Alto?

  IT’S NOT EVERY direct marketer that would have the hubris to run a “Build a shrine to us on your Web site” contest. But then, not every direct marketer

• Box Top Bingo

  Two straight years of wilting sales have presented U.S. cereal makers with a grim picture. Two of the industry’s heaviest hitters, Kellogg’s and General

• GOING FASTER THAN EVER: Ironman picks up steam and sponsors for its 20th year.

  The first Ironman Triathlon was dreamed up during a Navy awards ceremony as a way to settle a bet about whether bikers or runners were in better shape.

• Agencies

  DM Goes Global With Charles Prescott

  In July the Direct Marketing Association named Charles A. Prescott, formerly of The Reader’s Digest Association, as its first vice president of international

• Agencies

  Europe Calling

  TO JUDGE BY the way share prices for the sector are dropping, the boom in telemarketing in the United States is over. Whether this is the result of overoptimistic