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  • Burger King & the NFL

    An NFL partnership last football season was just what Burger King (BK) cooked up to promote a limited time only burger and fries offering. The fast food

  • Good to the Last Flop

    EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS, IN THE PAGES OF THIS MAGAZINE, I wonder publicly about a syndrome we should call slogan decay. No, I’m not sliding back into my

  • Licensed to Thrill

    Comic books and TV shows, blockbuster movies and video games: all provide a well of characters beloved by children and adults a fact not lost on retailers.

  • Less Is More

    TOO MANY LOYALTY marketers think they have to be all things to all customers; they design programs that are either too expensive or offer inadequate rewards.

  • Illusionary Wonder

    A&E had consumers rubbing their eyes in amazement when it staged a live event around its new real-life series Criss Angel: Mindfreak. And rightly so.

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    DON’T GET THEM STARTED I am appalled at the self-righteous, attacking, personal tone that Ken Magill took toward Keri Smith and Jeff Pitcher in his column

  • SEO Helps Build DMer’s Business

    Mark Zoske has turned a passion for salt into a $3.5 million-a-year online business, largely by using search engine optimization. His firm, SaltWorks,

  • Buffing brand appeal

    Requests for brown sugar and honey massages, eucalyptus soaks and grain and spice facials are in high demand, with spas throwing open their doors in record

  • Get back

    One of the advantages of living in the New York area is access to terrific museums. On a recent Saturday, I trooped my two boys down to The Museum of

  • Newegg Speaks Geek

    THOSE OF US WHO SEND up a flare for the help desk when our computers develop hiccups may never have heard of Newegg.com. But it’s a fast-rising retail