Chief Marketer Staff

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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

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  Cold Calls, Hot Topics

  DIRECT RESPONSE does better in business media than in consumer media. For business, it’s Horatio Alger; for consumers, film noir.Small business publication

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  Viking Office Products Sets Sail for Japan

  VIKING OFFICE PRODUCTS K.K., Tokyo, will begin catalog sales of office products to small and medium-sized businesses in Japan early next year. The company

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Houston, TX

  Yes, it’s true: Everything is bigger in Texas. Houston supermarkets are 17 percent bigger in square footage than the national average. Houston is the

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  Cue the Postman…

  FILM FANATICS may be looking forward to picking popcorn and gumdrops out of their hiking boots next month, but the directors of the 25th Telluride Film

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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

• 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

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  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

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  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