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American Express Targets Small Biz Market A recent American Express campaign encouraging small businesses to join its discount program consists of a plastic box resembling a CD mailer. For no cost, businesses can join Open: The Small Business Network …

Elvis Costello once sang, “Radio is our sound salvation.” Now it turns out his ironic tone may have hit just the right note: The question today is, Who will save radio?

How many times have you seen a competitor’s company or product featured in a newspaper or magazine article and said, “Why can’t my company get coverage like that?” The answer is often simple: The company used some form of public relations.

There’s nothing sweeter than the sound of good music. That’s what Cadbury Adams USA LLC, the manufacturer and distributor of Swedish Fish, Sour Patch and Chiclets, is banking on under a new sweepstakes that offers a chance to win tickets to a private …

Were I to have access to more time, energy, and/or a statistician, I could point out the instances in my articles dedicated to the incentive promotion space. Without those, I can only speculate, but I feel confident in suggesting that they are numerous. I

Arguably the biggest purchase impacting our space last year occurred in June when AOL announced its intent to purchase Advertising.com for north of $400 million. Two months prior, in March, another substantial acquisition took place. This one saw Ask Jeev

Media keeps migrating to smaller and smaller screens as marketers step up their Internet and mobile-phone promotions.

Sixty-one percent of marketers have earmarked up to 10% of their 2005 marketing budgets for interactive programs (including Internet and text messaging), per PROMO’s January survey of marketing execs. Most marketers (55%) spent less than 5% of their 2004 marketing budgets on interactive efforts.

During Meeting Professionals International’s ROI Summit last July, Tracey Smith, manager, events programming, at Thomson RIA, a Dallas-based software company, had to duck out of a session to take part in a conference call with her vice presidents of sales, marketing, customer operations, and product development. They wanted to talk about an upcoming user conference that she was planning, and about how to measure the return on investment for their attendees.

Ask Jeeves, the search engine ranked as the fifth most widely used by consumers, has agreed to be acquired by IAC/InterActive, the investment firm led by media mogul Barry Diller with a smorgasbord of online product and service sites.

There is something fun about watching two titans clash. Think of Godzilla battling King Kong. It’s fun especially, and probably only, assuming the battle doesn’t lead to one’s own demise. Instead of Godzilla and King Kong, the two titans