Chief Marketer Staff
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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
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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
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If This Isn’t E-mail Heaven, It Must Be the Other Place
I WOULDN’T DARE KNOCK e-mail as a communications tool. After all, one of my books is “Cybertalk That Sells” (whatever that’s supposed to mean).But my
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Shopper’s Nightmare
IF THERE’S A single cliche that drives us up the wall, it’s the one in which small store owners are hailed as the paragon of one-to-one marketing. We’ve
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The Good Guys Get Some
The Coupon Information Corp. recently awarded its Gold Medallion to IRS Special Agent Paul Deery and Assistant United States Attorney Paul Sarmousakis,
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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
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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
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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
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DOWNSIZING
Acxiom/DMI Lays Off 30 ACXIOM/DIRECT MEDIA, Greenwich, CT, laid off 30 employees-some 5% of its work force-last month. The terminations came as part of