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Lifetime, Claire’s Bring Real-Life Issue Home Via Movie Debut
Lifetime Television got a little boost from Claire’s Stores, Inc. to promote its new movie and an online discussion aimed at helping parents and teenagers deal with the negative effects of bullying. The network’s original movie, Odd Girl Out is based on …
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Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail
ESPN Shop Stirs Up March Madness ESPN Shop arrived in mailboxes in time for the 2005 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, a.k.a. March Madness. The catalog’s cover, which looks a lot like a magazine, features images of Roy Williams and Bill Self, two of …
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Tuning In at the Shelf
U.S. brands spent $18.45 billion on in-store marketing in 2004, up nearly 5% from the year before, based on PROMO estimates. In-store marketing including
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Chelsea & Scott Boosts Sales, Saves Money With E-Catalogs
Who says recycling is a chore? Online marketers of all sizes are embracing catalog recycling by putting their books up on the Web site as well as in the
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News briefs/directmag.com
3/16 THE NEIMAN MARCUS GROUP INC. said it was exploring a sale of the company and that it had hired Goldman Sachs & Co. as its financial adviser. Neiman’s
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RosettaStone Ad Gets a B in DM Language
This ad for Rosetta Stone language courses is a puzzle. It surely was not devised simply as a brand-building ad, since no one walks into a language instruction
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FedEx Delivers to Customer Touch Points
FedEx is looking to both operational and relationship touch points to drive customer loyalty. Operational touch points like phone conversations, online
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Opposites Attract
At times, creative and production professionals probably feel like they’re from separate universes, divided by a common language of specs, deadlines and
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All in the Game
Despite increased sophistication in the delivery, execution and fulfillment of promotional games, contests and sweeps in 2004, marketers ranked this tactic
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Schumer Pushes for Expanded FTC Role
February 15 ChoicePoint announces that it sold 145,000 consumer data records to scam artists. February 25 Bank of America says tapes containing credit