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  • Electronic Promotions Threaten DM Couponing

    WHILE DIRECT MAIL remained a favored method of receiving samples or coupons, ranking second only behind free-standing inserts in newspapers, its popularity

  • Splinter Groups

    SOME FOLKS can’t leave well enough alone. When Nancy Miller, marketing analyst for Parkersburg, WV-based Woodcraft Supply, first started using a neural-network-based

  • The Renaissance in B-to-B Lists

    JOB TITLE? Business class? Sales volume? Business-to-business mailers are no longer satisfied with those old-time list selects alone. Now they want to

  • RECRUIT THE A-TEAM

    IT’S GENERALLY believed that after a certain amount of time spent working the phones, telephone representatives burn out. I maintain that reps are more

  • Building Muscle

    POSING FOR a portrait in his company’s lavish Woodland Hills, CA lobby, Michael Carr, president and CEO of muscle-mag publisher Weider Publications, briefly

  • Field Trip: Chicago Natural History Museum Digs for New Members

    THE FIELD MUSEUM of Natural History in Chicago is as well known for research as it is for its exhibits. Beginning next month, the Field will explore uncharted

  • Measuring the Loyalty Effect

    ONE OF THE best books I’ve ever read on the subject of customer retention is “The Loyalty Effect” by Frederick F. Reichheld (Harvard Business School Press).Many

  • Snack Attack

    Sharon Fordham has been reacquainting herself with the cookie aisle.Back at the marketing helm of Nabisco Biscuit Co. after her 1994 to ’97 run as president

  • Is Advertising Dead?

    Let’s play a game of Is It Advertising or Promotion?Coca-Cola commits some $50 million of its marketing budget to cash prizes for consumers who find ATM

  • Sessions

    Global Branding and Activation Dean Barrett, Vice President, Global Marketing, McDonald’s Corporation.Coffee Break in the Exhibit HallThe Promotion World