Chief Marketer Staff

• Peel Out

  We were asked by Wrangler to promote its sponsorship of the Dale Earnhardt Number One race car. It seemed easy enough until we started to peel back the

• The Two Lives of Marvin, the Deli King

  Last month, I had to shoot a photograph in the rustic part of Connecticut for a promotion. It was a cool and beautiful Saturday.At lunch I drove around

• Agencies

  A Customer in the Palm Is Worth…

  JON MCAULIFFE bought his PalmPilot handheld computer a year and a half ago. In March, McAuliffe, a quantitative analyst for New York investment bank D.E.

• Agencies

  E-mail Takes a Byte Out of Postal

  NOT ALL THAT long ago, many list pros questioned whether e-mail files were a viable-let alone successful-enterprise. Now, as revenues rocket, that question

• Agencies

  No Postal Rate Hike Until January

  IN LATE JUNE, the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors approved an overall 2.9% increase in postage rates to take effect Jan. 10, 1999-the smallest

• Agencies

  Automobile Owners

  A NEW SURVEY of women who buy or lease cars indicates widespread disenchantment: Only 57% of the women polled by Good Housekeeping would choose the same

• Agencies

  Amex Accused of Bias Against Hasidic Jews

  A NEW YORK jeweler has sued American Express Travel Related Services, claiming Amex is excluding from its catalogs items from vendors owned by Hasidic

• Agencies

  If This Isn’t E-mail Heaven, It Must Be the Other Place

  I WOULDN’T DARE KNOCK e-mail as a communications tool. After all, one of my books is “Cybertalk That Sells” (whatever that’s supposed to mean).But my

• Agencies

  Shopper’s Nightmare

  IF THERE’S A single cliche that drives us up the wall, it’s the one in which small store owners are hailed as the paragon of one-to-one marketing. We’ve

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  Cash From Chaos

  MOST DATABASE records can be ranked alphabetically or numerically by information in their fields. Related data, such as ZIP codes, can be clustered for