Chief Marketer Staff

• 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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  Have You Hugged Your Printer Today?

  IN THIS AGE of camera-ready art, or direct-to-plate printing, it’s easy for a print house to accept a passive role in a card deck’s preparation. However,

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  Awards, Pro and Con

  IN OUR OPINION awards programs should present the best work that’s been done, not provoke the question, “Is that the best an awards program can do?”Case

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  Don’t Quote Me-PLEASE

  IT’S ALWAYS NICE to be quoted in a prestigious newspaper like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe or the

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  Here’s the Beef

  TIRED OF all those stale ham sandwiches and fruit combos offered on airline flights? Hoping for something edible while you wing your way across America?

• Playing a Golden Oldie

  Michael Mitaro knows how to locate the soul of a beer. As director of marketing and sales at Labatt USA’s specialty import division in the early ’90s,

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  CROSSFIRE

  THE LIST BUSINESS is facing many of the problems it encountered last year, with a couple of new twists-intensified merger activity, increased client demands

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  A Customer in the Palm Is Worth…

  JON MCAULIFFE bought his PalmPilot handheld computer a year and a half ago. In March, McAuliffe, a quantitative analyst for New York investment bank D.E.

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  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

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  E-mail Takes a Byte Out of Postal

  NOT ALL THAT long ago, many list pros questioned whether e-mail files were a viable-let alone successful-enterprise. Now, as revenues rocket, that question