Chief Marketer Staff
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rudolf Gains More Friends
NEW YORK Four Christmas themed videos will team with M&M/Mars this holiday season for an offer that includes instant wins, a sweepstakes, and $1 off any