Chief Marketer Staff

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  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

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  Office Depot Goes to School

  Office Depot is using direct mail, coupons and sweepstakes to target the 6.5 million national parent-teacher association (PTA) members who buy school

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  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

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  Customer-Targeted Marketing Communications

  THIS IS PART three of an excerpt from a chapter on relationship marketing, from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct

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  ONE AT A TIME

  WHETHER YOU LABEL today’s marketing models as relationship, database, loyalty, retention or one-to-one is not of great consequence. They all express the

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  B-to-B Sales Slowly Rising

  LIKE THE TORTOISE that won the race, business-to-business sales are moving ahead slowly but surely, according to results of a survey presented at this

• How About an Award for Great Legs?

  The annual industry ritual of self-salutation is fast approaching. There’ll be awards in the categories of best this, best that, and best them. However,

• Agency Moves

  Matthew Armstrong named senior vp, director of business development at the Marketing Corporation of America, Westport, CT. Also at the agency, Joseph

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  That’s Entertainment

  High-Speed Duel In an innovative idea, DC Comics and NASCAR will join next month to stage a duel within one of the circuit’s biggest races. The Showdown

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  I Went to College for This???

  UNTIL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, I had planned to write a nice docile column about branding successes.Maybe I’ll be docile next issue.A few months ago, I received