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This Is A Test
Perhaps the most significant trend within the dot-com community is online companies diverting promotional dollars into traditional media outlets, such
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The Sweetest Rings
The phonecard promotion is fundamentally simple: Buy them, pass them out, and smile at the slippage rate.Consumers love phonecards because they offer
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Healthy Doses
The pulse of healthcare promotion has quickened. Consumer ad spending in the prescription drug category has skyrocketed since ’97, and healthcare organizations
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Grills and Gridirons
Drive-thru restaurant chains Checkers and Rally’s, Clearwater, FL, broke their largest-ever marketing campaign last month with a national effort utilizing
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Adherent Disciple
Stickiness. That, not reach or brand awareness, is what marketers need to get from their promotions. So sayeth the new publisher of Reader’s Digest.Forget
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Psycho Analysis: PUTTING KIDS ON THE COUCH IS A QUESTIONABLE PRACTICE
Should shrinks be teaching marketers how to appeal to kids?The American Psychological Association is mulling the question, after being prompted by consumer
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20th Century Guy
One day back in the late ’70s, at my first job for a small publishing company in New York City, I returned to the office from lunch and my boss asked
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Investing in Data
financial service providers such as banks and insurance companies court small businesses with the focus and attention of a first love. But even giants
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TELEMARKETING: Tough Town for Talking
They sneer. They jeer. They say things like: “Why don’t you get a real job?” Hanging up can be the kindest thing New Yorkers do to telemarketers and pollsters.One