Chief Marketer Staff

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  Lou Reed Bio on Home Video

  Just months after it aired on PBS, the only documentary of rocker Lou Reed will hit home video on July 28. Fox Lorber is releasing the 75-minute video

• Problem Children

  Marketers who navigate by the seat of their pants trying to home in on under-20 age segments risk a bad case of posterior rug burn. Yet many brand managers,

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  Everywhere Merchants Want to Be

  Visa USA will give its retail partners magic for Christmas this year, part of an aggressive slate of consumer promotions designed to drive purchases in

• Promoters Do It with Less

  Never before, it appears, have so many done so much with so much less. That’s the theme that runs through promo’s Annual Report of the Promotion Industry

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  Consumer DM Soars

  Strong results on Main Street are translating into market-beating returns on Wall Street for consumer direct marketing companies.Over the 12 months ended

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  Polk Appeals

  L. Polk & Co., Detroit, has appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court a decision that allows that state to withhold the sale of motor vehicle lists. On April

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  Chicago Internet Guru Jay Gondelman Dies

  Jay Gondelman, the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing’s interactive guru and partner in Visionautics Inc., died in June of cancer at 50. According

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  Prizewinning growth

  Marketers spent $24 billion on premiums in 1997, with growth in consumer and business-to-business premiums boosting the category 6 percent. The segment

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  Corporate Gift Program Uncorked

  Virtual Vineyards (www. virtualvin. com), the consumer Web site that sells wine, food and gifts, has gone into the corporate gift and incentives business.With

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  Tools of the Trade

  Marketers use several terms-ROI, profitability, lifetime value and RFM-as if they are synonymous. They aren’t. Each has its own special use in database