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Chain Calls Gift Card Offer a Scam
Dunkin’ Donuts claims that an e-mail from a Florida firm promising a free $25 gift card in return for a completed survey is a scam. It also appears the
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Open for Business? Not Quite
I’m not greedy. I can live quite comfortably on a mere $5 million a year. So I would be very happy to have just 1% of the ad dollars that are largely wasted on ads like this one from American Express.
It makes one think that such corporations must have summer interns they don’t know what to do with. So they give them a job that requires no experience, training or common sense
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World Wildlife Fund’s Hard S(h)ell
ANIMAL LOVERS EXPECTING to find a panda under their Mother’s Day tree this year surely were disappointed: The World Wildlife Fund de-emphasized its traditional
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Pont Named 2006 List Leader
Stefanie Pont, founder and managing partner of Pont Media Direct, is the DMA’s List Leader of the Year. During her two-plus decades in the industry, Pont
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Ring and Rank
How does your telecom carrier measure up in online customer service? Not bad, judging from new research by The Customer Respect Group. Of the 55 telecommunications
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CORRECTIONS
International Masters Publishers’ list manager was misidentified in the June 15 feature It’s in the Cards. ALC oversees the company’s file. In The Hidden
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No, It’s Not Marketing. It’s Just Advertising
Are you as numbed as I am by the ridiculous, sometimes impenetrable and too-often obnoxious ads that pepper local television stations and newspapers?
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Ford, Kellogg Put Fusion Premiums in Cereal Boxes
Ford Motor Co. has taken Fusion beyond the dealership lot and into a cereal box.
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NBA Courts Europe with Basket Jam
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is taking its hoop action and marketing partners Champion, Nike, FootLocker, EA Sport, Spalding and Sprite to eight cities in four European countries in its first-ever NBA Basket Jam, a basketball festival that features interactive basketball games and entertainment activities.