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  • 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

  • Business Manners for Everyone

    THE NEED FOR business manners is even greater than I anticipated, and reader comments strongly indicated that more should be written on this critical

  • People: Marketing Services

    Chris Crosby named chief operating officer and Marla Aberegg executive vp at Fitch, Inc., Worthington, OH. Also at the company the following were promoted

  • Agency Moves

    Lori Leiva named vp account director at Frankel & Co., Chicago. Also at the agency, Jon Ford named account director at Frankel Direct, and Jay Gaylen

  • Creativity, Wit, Results – A Recipe for Success

    What makes a winning promotion? What goes into a campaign that builds sales and market share beyond all reasonable expectations, contributes to brand

  • Big Foot

    Back in the spring of 1997, we began brainstorming and searching for the big idea that would win us the Duracell business for its fourth quarter promotion

  • Tools of the Trade

    Marketers use several terms-ROI, profitability, lifetime value and RFM-as if they are synonymous. They aren’t. Each has its own special use in database

  • Translation Errors

    TACTICS THAT WORK for consumer catalogs won’t necessarily translate successfully to their business-to-business brethren, according to Pamela J. Hutchins,