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  • Getting Up to Dickens With Consumer Data

    For direct marketer Ebenezer Scrooge, watching television before retiring to bed had become a bad habit. On April 30, he drifted off after watching 60

  • Young at Heart

    You gotta think like a kid. That’s an oversimplification, of course, but it pretty much sums up the way Irvine, CA-based Strottman International operates.

  • UPGRADING THE MENU

    ASK THE PROMO PRO Have a question about event insurance or that Connecticut tax recently imposed on advertising services? Just ask one of our experts

  • Wish You Were Here

    As the economy made its barely perceptible turn to recovery, brand marketers continued to shift spending from media advertising to promotional marketing

  • The New Federalism

    Talk about change. Conservative businesspeople who thought of the federal government as the root of all evil are singing a different tune. Even the most

  • When good promotions go bad

    Kellogg Co. announced in April that a computer error in its American Airlines’ American Dream sweepstakes led to erroneously informing several thousand

  • DIRECT listline

    NEW LISTS Banking IT A 25,104-name list of presidents, vice presidents, boardroom and senior-level bankers, CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, top IT managers, officers

  • Spam Attack

    FEDERAL ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION is becoming as plentiful as the millions of unsolicited bulk e-mails jamming inboxes every day. Since April, three bills

  • Mother of Invention?

    Laurie Cairns is having trouble enforcing her patent for online fulfillment of in-pack codes. Cairns and her attorney have approached 15 to 20 consumer