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The Golden Age
Here’s a stumper you may not be able to answer: Which DM trade publication published the following story? The baby was born on a Tuesday and officially
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How Effective?
Experiential marketing is premised on the notion that consumers are motivated by what they’re encountering. In a best-case scenario they might even be
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Tide Turns for A&P
Here’s a marketing insight you probably didn’t know: Cleaner supermarket shoppers tend to be better fed. Well, one could infer that by looking at A&P
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Cyber Stumping
In case you missed it, something very interesting happened in December at Barack Obama’s rally in Columbia, SC. A viral marketing event broke out. The
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Smells like Licensing Deal
Music publisher Primary Wave has revived the lost art form of the deluxe promotional CD package. The labels don’t do it any more, says Devin Lasker, partner
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It’s Your Reputation, Stupid!
If there’s one concept traditional direct marketers have had trouble grasping, it’s e-mail reputation and how it affects deliverability. The reason? It
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These Goose Eggs Are Brass, Not Gold
We’re in the middle of an epidemic. The force-communication goose that’s supposed to lay golden eggs e-mail is laying so many brass eggs that when we
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Young But Not Stupid
It Used to be easy in 1992. When Robert Wolfe wanted to attract customers to the first Moosejaw Mountaineering outdoor store in Keego Harbor, MI, he and
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Big Game in Big Easy
When the National Basketball Association decided to hold its All-Star Game in New Orleans this month, the league realized it had to be more than an extended