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Good Stuff
If you’re a New Englander, you know them and you’ve shopped in their stores at least once. (If you say you haven’t you’re probably lying.) And if you’re
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WORD expansion
WE’VE ENTERED AN ERA in which sending 5 million e-mails isn’t a major novelty. Thus, a new significance appears, to haunt us creative types: Word massaging,
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Cola Stars
Surprise: Coca-Cola Co. will bring back Harry Potter for a holiday 2002 campaign. But that’s not all: A separate continuity campaign brings in long-time
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Saving Spiegel
The Spiegel Group, once a shining example for catalog firms everywhere, is now struggling to survive. Its financial position is so precarious that were
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Sampling: A Softer Sell
Budget cutbacks and a dwindling number of product launches held spending growth on sampling programs to just 3.0 percent at $1.2 billion in 2001, according
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E-mail Now More Profitable, Survey Shows
E-MAIL use is becoming more profitable. The average amount of revenue generated from an online buyer grew from $168 in 2001 to $208 in 2002, while the
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Rational Software Ad Not Rational Enough
I REALIZE that this is not the first time I have done a makeover of an ad for business software. But it presents one of the toughest challenges in direct
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DEAR MARKETER:
THIS YEAR, DMD will have the most exciting event in its 37-year history. We are honored to have America’s Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as our luncheon speaker
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Online and Offline Are One: Study
THE LINES BETWEEN online and offline direct marketing are blurring, according to a new survey by the Direct Marketing Association. Of 700 companies contacted