Chief Marketer Staff

• CoolSavings Granted Patent

  CoolSavings, a leader in Internet couponing, has just received a U.S. patent for its online couponing service designed to protect customer anonymity.”The

• Fee FSI Fo Fum

  Little Jack felled but one beanstalk. It was a justifiable act under the circumstances – he was seeking refuge from an aroused cannibalistic giant.We

• Agencies: Who’s News

  Premium Big Snaps Up Top Boutique Aligning one of the hottest promotion agencies with one of the fastest-growing firms in specialty and premium product

• Agencies

  Florida Telemarketing Service Responds to Fire Alarm

  A TELEMARKETING SERVICE came in handy last month when Florida officials needed to tell residents to evacuate an area because of another one of the fires

• Agencies

  The USPS Should Take the Lead

  THESE HAVE GOT to be frustrating times over at the U.S. Postal Service.First, they demand that you operate more like a business. When you try, they clobber

• Agencies

  DMA Names Prescott International VP

  THE DIRECT MARKETING ASSOCIATION has named Charles A. Prescott vice president of international business development and government affairs. Prescott is

• Agencies

  DATABASE MARKETING

  ABI Brass Hints at New Moves AMERICAN BUSINESS INFORMATION, Omaha, NE, has completed a bond offering that allows it to retire $80 million in debt from

• 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

• 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