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Will the Rays Zap the Ratings?

When the Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Chicago Cubs out of the National League Divisional Series, those stoic Cubs fans weren

Brand Nazis

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Was Adolf Hitler a brand? As one of our more recent home-grown brands would say, you betcha. And he was marketed like one. So runs the argument in Steven Heller

Scribbles episode 1: “Top Five Promotions Ever”

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The Trouble With QR Code Readers

|  by Tim Parry

Maybe I was ahead of the game. Maybe I was reaching for something that was so far out there. Maybe I was desperate to make our October story on mobile commerce something more than your overplayed "m-commerce is here" article. But when Ralph Lauren ...

Welcome (Back) to Our Blog

|  by Melissa Dowling

MCM is back in the blogosphere! You may or may not remember that we started a blog a few years ago, but it didn't take. What happened? It just sort of petered out due to a lack of time and discipline. Basically, it wasn't a very good blog, and we ...