Chief Marketer Staff

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  Home Again

  SWIMMING POOLS and golf courses. Dance lessons and card games. Cookouts and crafts classes.It may sound like a summer camp or a luxury resort, but it’s

• Calling All Rare Talents

  To all of you multi-disciplined creatives who still can’t decide what you want to be when you grow up or can’t describe your occupation in that little

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  Singing a National Anthem

  AFTER AN ENCOURAGING test launch in California and the Pacific Northwest, cataloger Moon Song went national last month with a 100,000-piece mailing.Owner

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  Tracking May Avoid Customer Defection

  IT’S POSSIBLE FOR a company to show increases in both revenue and its customer base and still have a poor retention program.That’s the opinion of Carla

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  Not at Your Service

  THIS IS THE fifth year we’ve done an informal accounting of service standards in the consumer catalog industry. In the past, we generally reviewed about

• Who’s News

  Cross-Sell Advantage Earl Palmer Brown Cos. continued its shopping spree last month when it bought BEN Marketing, the 9-year-old Stamford, CT, promo agency

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  Wild Card Kingdom

  HERE’S ANOTHER example-although somewhat tenuous-of how e-mail marketing is working better than banner ads.In May National Geographic Interactive, Washington,

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  Overlays on Overdrive

  EVEN IN A narrow niche such as diabetic customers, information can provide a competitive edge. Acknowledging this, Franklin Lakes, NJ-based medical supply

• Is There a Promotion Exec in the House?

  Promo’s 1998 Annual Report of the Promotion Industry shows impressive growth – up seven billion dollars, or 10 percent, from last year. This windfall

• Evaluation in Evolution

  In our fast-forward age, where a sense of personal superiority often rests on having a quicker modem speed than one’s neighbor, it is hard to remember