Chief Marketer Staff

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  Elvis Fans

  Despite his enduring popularity, obtaining lists of Elvis Presley’s fans is no easy task. Elvis Presley Enterprises keeps a tight grip on memorabilia

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  Campaign Targets Indulgent Dog Owners

  Heinz Pet Products, St. Louis, will send out samples of Pup-Peroni later this month. While Heinz has been making the dog treats for 10 years, the campaign

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  Building Custom Models for Potential Mailers

  If you own a large active or inactive customer file and you’re not building custom list rental models for potential list users then you’re probably missing

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  Market Research Spotlights Web Commerce

  Internet watcher Forrester Research Inc., Cambridge, MA, launched a service April 28 called On-line Retail Strategies to focus on Internet selling.The

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  On the Move

  Paragren Technologies, Reston, VA, has named Anthony Agresta director of product management; James Stafford director of sales consulting; Suzanne Porter-Kuchay

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  Magazine Circulation-Avant-Garde or Antediluvian

  The economics of magazine circulation haven’t changed much in the last 70 years or so. Subscribers pay in advance for a set number of issues, the publisher

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  CATALOG CAPITAL

  Experts agree: It’s difficult to generalize about how publicly traded consumer catalogs are doing on Wall Street. For one thing, direct marketing companies

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  Picture Perfect

  Kodak is relaunching an infomercial for the DC210 digital camera this month, after a successful test for Christmas 1997.The half-hour program will be

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  DIRECTNEWSLINE

  DM Deals Hit $38 Billion in ’97 The combined value of strategic direct marketing transactions-including mergers, acquisitions and buyouts-reached $38

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  Foster & Gallagher Springs Up on the Web

  Foster & Gallagher, Peoria, IL, the megabig horticultural direct marketer, has been taking a slow approach to the Web, but made a major plunge in late