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  • Up to No Good

    Two words that are damaging our credibility, causing complaints and acting as weak crutches for questionable sales pitches: Up to. The Up to problem has

  • Marketing Services

    Baker Desiged Communications, Santa Monica, CA, appointed Matthew Kruchko director of branding and marketing. Freda Seals joined Franklin, TN-based Holliday

  • Scene and Heard

    If done well, events can be a marketer’s dream. At a well-planned and executed event, consumers get to touch the brand, play with it, test drive it, and

  • Shows Must Go On

    ABC Television Network last month formed an unusual partnership with WPP Group’s media-buying arm MindShare North America to collaborate on programming.

  • Return OnWhat?

    The excitement and buzz surrounding event marketing has forgiven many of its shortcomings specifically where it misses one of promotions’ greatest strengths:

  • Seven Strategies for Expanding Your Business

    Ever since the recession dug in its heels nearly three years, survival, rather than growth, has been the goal for many catalogers. But finally, things

  • PROMO exclusive: By the Numbers

    At one time, marketers might have thought of events in terms of a stand-alone mobile unit parked at Wal-Mart to introduce new hair care products, or a guerrilla team working the streets of New York or Chicago to pass out coupons for a cellular phone.

  • Spiegel Lists Eddie Bauer Stores to be Shuttered

    The Spiegel Group announced the location of 29 Eddie Bauer stores it intends to close this year, as part of efforts to improve store productivity related