Chief Marketer Staff
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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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Son of Gorditas
Picture this perfect promotion. You are working with a major fast food chain to move drinks and a new product, you get to use the most hyped movie of
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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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Cash From Chaos
MOST DATABASE records can be ranked alphabetically or numerically by information in their fields. Related data, such as ZIP codes, can be clustered for
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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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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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I Can’t Even Be Bothered to Write a Headline
I’M NOT IN the mood. I awoke this morning to the sound of former Partridge Family member Danny Bonaduce (now a DJ on New York’s Big-105) announcing over
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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