Chief Marketer Staff

• Picking a Winner

  Winning may not be everything, but trying to win sure is an undeniable force. Everybody loves a winner, because everybody loves to win. That’s what keeps

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  Bean Sprouts Redesign

  IN RESPONSE TO “sluggish sales and stiffer competition,” apparel cataloger and retailer L.L. Bean is refining its catalog marketing operations and is

• Busytown Goes Mobile

  HOLLYWOOD Busytown’s cast of characters have hit the road to open a 20-city interactive tour that is set to land at malls throughout the East and Midwest.This

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  Instant Gratification

  WOULDN’T IT BE nice if charities that help disaster victims could get donations right after TV viewers had their hearts tugged by footage of the devastation

• Reclaiming Salem’s Lot

  Joe Camel may be on a respirator, but RJR’s Salem cigarettes, a brand that faded from view after the industry’s price rollback in 1994, is quietly going

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  The Sector in the Interactive Mask

  HEADY STOCK GAINS by three companies involved in interactive communications are masking an otherwise lackluster year for publicly traded DM service suppliers.The

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  Wake up and Smell the Co-Marketing

  Account-specific marketing is stopping traffic in Greenwich Village.It started with Fender Guitars’ Christmas radio campaign, the first consumer spots

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  Quarterdeck President Hessler Resigns

  CURT HESSLER HAS resigned as president, CEO and director of Quarterdeck Corp., a computer helpware direct marketer/retailer in Marina del Rey, CA. The

• Neatness Still Counts

  The biggest reason shoppers give for picking a store to buy prepared food isn’t the food’s taste. Consumers say the No. 1 determinant for why they shop

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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