Chief Marketer Staff

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  Animorphs Changing into a MultiMedia Success

  NEW YORK Quick, think of a successful children’s book series that was turned into a hit TV show? If you answered Goosebumps, you’re right, but execs at

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  CROSSFIRE

  THE LIST BUSINESS is facing many of the problems it encountered last year, with a couple of new twists-intensified merger activity, increased client demands

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  Remembering Pete Hoke

  NOT THAT HE needed any tributes from us, but direct marketers lost one of the best friends they ever had with the death of Pete Hoke in July.Pete cared

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  Awards, Pro and Con

  IN OUR OPINION awards programs should present the best work that’s been done, not provoke the question, “Is that the best an awards program can do?”Case

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Houston, TX

  Yes, it’s true: Everything is bigger in Texas. Houston supermarkets are 17 percent bigger in square footage than the national average. Houston is the

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  Don’t Quote Me-PLEASE

  IT’S ALWAYS NICE to be quoted in a prestigious newspaper like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe or the

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  E-mail Takes a Byte Out of Postal

  NOT ALL THAT long ago, many list pros questioned whether e-mail files were a viable-let alone successful-enterprise. Now, as revenues rocket, that question

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  Establishing a Relationship Marketing Program

  THIS IS PART TWO of an excerpt on relationship marketing from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing” (McGraw-Hill).Much

• Peel Out

  We were asked by Wrangler to promote its sponsorship of the Dale Earnhardt Number One race car. It seemed easy enough until we started to peel back the

• The Two Lives of Marvin, the Deli King

  Last month, I had to shoot a photograph in the rustic part of Connecticut for a promotion. It was a cool and beautiful Saturday.At lunch I drove around