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  • Not Your Mother’s COUPON

    There are three kinds of customers: new ones, loyal ones, and prospective ones. Coupons – especially the ones housed in colorful free-standing inserts

  • 500 Billion Miles To Go

    WE MAY BE LIVING in a global village, but you still need to change planes to get there. Airlines are making that an easier task, while bringing a new

  • Sweeps Operators Beware: The Law is Watching

    Past editions of this column have discussed the possibility of greater government scrutiny for the promotion marketing industry. While I could not pinpoint

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  • Feeding the Inner Child

    It seems that every agency pats itself on the back for promoting an environment in which creativity can flourish, as though simply saying it will seduce

  • Sweepstakes, Keepstakes, Or Sleepstakes?

    Much of promotion is waste. Take couponing. More than 90 percent of all coupons are delivered by FSIs, which achieve a reported 1.4% redemption rate.

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  • United’s Taste Test

    United Airlines has proven that the way to a passenger’s wallet is through his stomach.The Chicago-based airline found that it could earn another $2.4

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  • Baby, Won’t You Drive My Car?

    EVERYONE KNOWS young people respond to peer pressure. General Motors has been applying that maxim to make college kids aware of their vehicles since 1991.The

  • Fulfilling Work

    IN PHYSICAL circles, the out-of-control assembly line is a staple. Lucille Ball’s conveyer-belt misadventures represent its high point, and shows ranging

  • Teaching Old Names New Tricks

    FOR CATALOGERS, RFM (recency, frequency and monetary) analysis is still a powerful list prospecting and continuation mailing tool. But catalogers are

  • One Big Happy Web

    THE INTERNET brings far-flung people together, and in our postindustrial, postmodern, peripatetic information age (some nice big words, huh?) that can