Chief Marketer Staff

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  Start Your Engines

  SEARCH ENGINES are still the favorite way for consumers to find products on the Web. More than ever, it’s important to be savvy about how search engines

• Reclaiming Salem’s Lot

  Joe Camel may be on a respirator, but RJR’s Salem cigarettes, a brand that faded from view after the industry’s price rollback in 1994, is quietly going

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  In-house Ed at IBM

  PERHAPS NOTHING symbolized the IBM of the past more than its fabled salesmen in the gray flannel suits. But since 1994 the old-line computer company has

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  The Xoom Boom

  XOOM INC., San Francisco (www.xoom.com), runs a Web community with a difference: Unlike most such communities, like GeoCities and Tripod, a large part

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  Back to Shool

  SHARPEN THOSE PENCILS-DM education programs are gearing up for the fall semester.* New York University’s Center for Direct Marketing will offer 10 courses

• Picking a Winner

  Winning may not be everything, but trying to win sure is an undeniable force. Everybody loves a winner, because everybody loves to win. That’s what keeps

• 100 years of Promotion

  If some 21st century Durkheim wanted insight on how Americans lived in this century, he could do worse than visit the Pillsbury archives, Bake-Off division.

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  Enhanced to Purchase eCommerce Corp.

  ENHANCED SERVICES CO. INC., El Segundo, CA, will buy eCommerce Corp. for a combination of cash and stock. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Stamford,

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  Here’s the Beef

  TIRED OF all those stale ham sandwiches and fruit combos offered on airline flights? Hoping for something edible while you wing your way across America?

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  Cue the Postman…

  FILM FANATICS may be looking forward to picking popcorn and gumdrops out of their hiking boots next month, but the directors of the 25th Telluride Film