Chief Marketer Staff

• When Frequent Fighting is Good

  Capcom, a leader in the fighting genre of video games, announced a frequent buyers program called Fighter’s Edge, in which consumers can earn and collect

• 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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  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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  Reel Deals

  Austin Powers 2 (New Line Cinema) Release Date: Summer 1999 Anticipated Rating: PG-13 Starring: Mike Meyers Top line: Meyers writes the script for the

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  Shop and Win

  Card patrols bestowed greenbacks on some lucky Kmart shoppers who purchased Expressions From Hallmark cards.From May 30 to June 6, 26 two-person card

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  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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  Quarterdeck President Hessler Resigns

  CURT HESSLER HAS resigned as president, CEO and director of Quarterdeck Corp., a computer helpware direct marketer/retailer in Marina del Rey, CA. The

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  Bean Sprouts Redesign

  IN RESPONSE TO “sluggish sales and stiffer competition,” apparel cataloger and retailer L.L. Bean is refining its catalog marketing operations and is

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  Instant Gratification

  WOULDN’T IT BE nice if charities that help disaster victims could get donations right after TV viewers had their hearts tugged by footage of the devastation

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  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