Chief Marketer Staff

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  Remembering Pete Hoke

  NOT THAT HE needed any tributes from us, but direct marketers lost one of the best friends they ever had with the death of Pete Hoke in July.Pete cared

• Deal Makers

  Susan McMurray hired as vp, international sales, for MGM Consumer Products. She had been vp, licensing, at Strottman International.David Vogler returned

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  Awards, Pro and Con

  IN OUR OPINION awards programs should present the best work that’s been done, not provoke the question, “Is that the best an awards program can do?”Case

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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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  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

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  Establishing a Relationship Marketing Program

  THIS IS PART TWO of an excerpt on relationship marketing from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing” (McGraw-Hill).Much

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  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

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  Fox Hits the Fast Lane

  LOS ANGELES Fox will try to extend the tremendous brand loyalty of NASCAR down to its youngest audience when it creates a children’s show based on the

• European Gold Pro Award Winners Chosen

  Promotions from Belgium, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands won 15 gold and 15 silver PRO Awards this year out of a record-breaking

• It’s About Time

  If you feel like you’re caught in a time warp lately, welcome to the club. In every industry, markets are merging, separating, growing in unpredictable