Chief Marketer Staff

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  Cold Calls, Hot Topics

  DIRECT RESPONSE does better in business media than in consumer media. For business, it’s Horatio Alger; for consumers, film noir.Small business publication

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  Have You Hugged Your Printer Today?

  IN THIS AGE of camera-ready art, or direct-to-plate printing, it’s easy for a print house to accept a passive role in a card deck’s preparation. However,

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  Teen Idol

  HE’S YOUNG, GOOD-LOOKING and vicariously adored by approximately 4 million teenage girls. What more could Steve Kahn, the 33-year-old founder/CEO of Delia’s

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  Much Ado About Privacy

  Is it me or have we all started to go off the deep end a bit on the privacy issue?Of late, it seems nary a day goes by that someone from within or outside

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  People

  Mokrynski & Associates Inc., Hackensack, NJ, promoted Lori Sloves to account executive in the list brokerage division.DraftWorldwide, Chicago, named Kristi

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  DOWNSIZING

  Acxiom/DMI Lays Off 30 ACXIOM/DIRECT MEDIA, Greenwich, CT, laid off 30 employees-some 5% of its work force-last month. The terminations came as part of

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  Animorphs Changing into a MultiMedia Success

  NEW YORK Quick, think of a successful children’s book series that was turned into a hit TV show? If you answered Goosebumps, you’re right, but execs at

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  Even Oscar the Grouch Responded

  THANKS TO a more kid-friendly newsletter-complete with value-added offers for moms-visits to Sesame Place by season-pass holders were up 15% this spring.The

• On the Net

  Net Pay Hoping to attract a million customers by year’s end, New York City-based Citibank launched a nationwide campaign offering cash for joining its

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  Those Crazy, Not-So-Lazy Days of Summer

  CORPORATE shuffleboard has been the summer game of choice for OgilvyOne, Cramer-Krasselt and J. Walter Thompson.OgilvyOne Worldwide lost Wendy Riches