Topic

Experiential

  • Special Report: Event Marketing

    Traveling Salesmen Events let consumers touch brands By Matthew Kinsman Event marketing is expensive, time consuming, and in an age when ROI is king difficult

  • Sample Size

    IT’S EVERY PROMOTION professional’s mantra: When times get tough, is always the first thing that gets cut. These days, the

  • In-store Services: Retail Wrangling

    Spending on in-store services declined despite an increased focus on in-store marketing in 2001. Chalk it up to the economy. Last year’s slowdown led

  • P-O-P Displays: Account Specifics

    Don’t let the $1.5 billion drop in spending fool you into thinking there’s been a decreased emphasis on point-of-purchase advertising. If anything, the

  • Simon Cries Foul Again

    Simon Marketing, Los Angeles, in March sued three accounting firms for breach of contract and negligence. The suit blames the firms for the security breach

  • Road Work

    So you’re thinking about getting a 53-feet-long, doublewide, expandable trailer with a giant, hydraulics-enhanced replica of your product for that national

  • Sampling: A Softer Sell

    Budget cutbacks and a dwindling number of product launches held spending growth on sampling programs to just 3.0 percent at $1.2 billion in 2001, according

  • Eavesdropping on Shoppers

    Tim White listens to women. He once watched a woman walk into The Great Indoors, Sears’ two-year-old housewares chain, and pull out her cell phone. She

  • What Kmart’s Troubles Mean To Me

    I absolutely love Target. I respect the hell out of Wal-Mart. And boy, do I feel really sorry for Kmart. Should we write off Kmart as a power retailer?

  • Retailgating

    Like college roommates, Kraft Foods and Coca-Cola Co. always get together for the Super Bowl. This year, they invited 150 of their closest friends to