Chief Marketer Staff

• Desperately Seeking Creativity

  Russell Pander paused . . . and for a reason. He had just been asked whether he thought the promotion business lacked creativity. Pander is creative guru

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  The Sher Solution

  Database marketers have a new resource available. It’s R. K. Sher & Associates, Highland Park, IL, founded by longtime industry leader Bob Sher. Sher

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  Hello, You Failed. Would You Like to Buy a Blender?

  This spring, hundreds of thousands of students found out their grades for the semester over the phone. Before they heard the good (or bad) news they listened

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  It’s a Wrap

  The annual PMA Star Power conference lived up to its title last month when both Ron Howard and Will Smith spoke to about 500 marketing executives on Warner

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  Sweetening the Pot

  Publishing files, once the most basic of lists, are now being offered to mailers with a variety of bells and whistles, including modeling, regression

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Hartford/New Haven, CT

  Hartford and New Haven supermarkets are big on service and specialty departments. Seventy percent of stores in the area have prepared-food departments,

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  P-O-P Gains, But Girds for Tobacco Withdrawal

  Marketers last year spent $13.1 billion on point-of-purchase displays, an increase of 5 percent above 1996.Some segments had growth rates that exceeded

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  Metal Mettle

  Remember when it used to really mean something if you had a gold credit card? And you were really important if you were approved for platinum ?Those days

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  Computer Resellers

  Whether they like it or not, computer resellers are being pushed to deliver products and services through new distribution programs. Channel assembly,

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  Rapp Collins Tops in Billings

  Rapp Collins Worldwide, with $1.615 billion in billings in 1997, leads the list of top 10 agencies, according to the Direct Marketing Association’s annual