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  Sweepstakes, Keepstakes, Or Sleepstakes?

  Much of promotion is waste. Take couponing. More than 90 percent of all coupons are delivered by FSIs, which achieve a reported 1.4% redemption rate.

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  A Public Service Making the Public Nervous

  I LIKE TO THINK of myself as a good citizen. I pay my taxes. I don’t litter. I’ve even been known to vote on occasion.But enough is enough.If the past

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  Retailer Realities

  Got a question for retail buyers that you’re too shy to ask? Promo Edge’s Retail Research Center polls buyers nationwide with your questions, and we print

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  Baby, Won’t You Drive My Car?

  EVERYONE KNOWS young people respond to peer pressure. General Motors has been applying that maxim to make college kids aware of their vehicles since 1991.The

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  Taking Stock

  THE RECENT ROCKINESS in the catalog business-the near-fatality of J. Peterman Co., the dumping of books by Genesis Direct, soft holiday and early-spring

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  Marketing Deals Approach

  MARKETING SERVICE FIRMS produced a record $4.8 billion in strategic deals in the last half of 1998, according to Winterberry Group Inc., a Manorville,

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  Everything Old Is New Again

  AMONG THE MORE interesting first place winners at the 21st Annual John Caples International Awards were Miller/Huber Relationship Marketing’s catalog

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  Teaching Old Names New Tricks

  FOR CATALOGERS, RFM (recency, frequency and monetary) analysis is still a powerful list prospecting and continuation mailing tool. But catalogers are

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  THEY GOTTA WEAR SHADES

  TO PERSUADE INFORMATION technology executives to tune into a virtual seminar on its latest Unix-based computer network software system, Sun Microsystems

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  One Big Happy Web

  THE INTERNET brings far-flung people together, and in our postindustrial, postmodern, peripatetic information age (some nice big words, huh?) that can