Chief Marketer Staff

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  Much Ado About Privacy

  Is it me or have we all started to go off the deep end a bit on the privacy issue?Of late, it seems nary a day goes by that someone from within or outside

• Neatness Still Counts

  The biggest reason shoppers give for picking a store to buy prepared food isn’t the food’s taste. Consumers say the No. 1 determinant for why they shop

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  Even Oscar the Grouch Responded

  THANKS TO a more kid-friendly newsletter-complete with value-added offers for moms-visits to Sesame Place by season-pass holders were up 15% this spring.The

• 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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  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

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  Remembering Pete Hoke

  NOT THAT HE needed any tributes from us, but direct marketers lost one of the best friends they ever had with the death of Pete Hoke in July.Pete cared

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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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  Get Framed

  TALK ABOUT a Web site with frames!Artuframe (www.artuframe.com), as in “art you frame,” allows you to do just that: pick out a piece of art, frame it,

• 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