Chief Marketer Staff

• Home and Garden, Furniture and Appliances Lead Online Sales Growth

  Online sales of home and garden supplies between Nov. 1 and Dec. 20 rose 78% over last year

• Banks Give FAO Some Breathing Room

  FAO Inc. said Tuesday it has reached a standstill agreement with its lenders not to take any action relating to its credit facility through Jan. 10. The

• Gupta Explains Salary Cuts at InfoUSA

  InfoUSA is requiring employees to take pay cuts, but will return the lost salary retroactively if the firm

• Nutri/System Names Hagan Chairman/CEO

  Nutri/System Inc. has named Mike Hagan chairman/CEO and George Jankovic president/COO. The online weight-loss system provider has also sold about 58%

• CareerBuilder Kicks Off Year-Long Ad Campaign

  CareerBuilder is launching a year-long national marketing campaign to bring more employers and qualified candidates together at its Web site (www.careerbuilder.com).

• Baby Boomers Use Internet to Shop, Study Finds

  Over 40% of all baby boomers shop online, although most spend only five hours a week on the Internet, according to a new survey from Mature Marketing

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• DIRECT Listline

  Aptimus Web-Generated Postal Database Mal Dunn Associates has been named manager of the Aptimus Web-Generated Postal Database. This file of 22 million

• Meta Keyword Tags: Fun With Fossils

  The meta keyword tags may be the dinosaur of search engine optimization but it is still important when optimizing for MSN search. The meta keywords tags

• United, UAL Loyalty Choose Grey Direct as DM Agency

  United Airlines and UAL Loyalty Services have chosen Grey Direct as their direct marketing agency of record. The value of the contract was not disclosed.