Chief Marketer Staff

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  No Postal Rate Hike Until January

  IN LATE JUNE, the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors approved an overall 2.9% increase in postage rates to take effect Jan. 10, 1999-the smallest

• A Flinty Look at the Future

  Try to predict the future. Does yours look more like the Jetsons or the Flintstones? If you think Jetsons, think again. Sure, everything is automated

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  The Xoom Boom

  XOOM INC., San Francisco (www.xoom.com), runs a Web community with a difference: Unlike most such communities, like GeoCities and Tripod, a large part

• 100 years of Promotion

  If some 21st century Durkheim wanted insight on how Americans lived in this century, he could do worse than visit the Pillsbury archives, Bake-Off division.

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  Much Ado About Privacy

  Is it me or have we all started to go off the deep end a bit on the privacy issue?Of late, it seems nary a day goes by that someone from within or outside

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  Get Framed

  TALK ABOUT a Web site with frames!Artuframe (www.artuframe.com), as in “art you frame,” allows you to do just that: pick out a piece of art, frame it,

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  Even Oscar the Grouch Responded

  THANKS TO a more kid-friendly newsletter-complete with value-added offers for moms-visits to Sesame Place by season-pass holders were up 15% this spring.The

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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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  CDW Computer Plans Branding Campaign

  DW COMPUTER CENTERS INC., Vernon Hills, IL, plans to launch a multifaceted branding campaign. While CDW is supporting this strategic changeover with an

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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