Chief Marketer Staff

• People Agency Moves

  Frank Henson named vp of the Solutions Marketing division of J. Brown/LMC Group, Stamford, CT.Christine Cervenka named director of research and human

• 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

• The Undefeated

  Apparently, it’s the decline without the fall, depending, of course, on who in the coupon business you’re talking to. Although total coupon expenditures

• Desperately Seeking Creativity

  Russell Pander paused . . . and for a reason. He had just been asked whether he thought the promotion business lacked creativity. Pander is creative guru

• Association News

  A Rose for IMRA Group elects new president. NAPERVILLE, IL – Rosemary Mills Luedke, president of Rose Incentives, was elected president of the Incentive

• Agencies

  Hello, You Failed. Would You Like to Buy a Blender?

  This spring, hundreds of thousands of students found out their grades for the semester over the phone. Before they heard the good (or bad) news they listened

• Agencies

  Words of Wisdom, 1998 Style

  There’s a reason we keep buying those little books with clever sayings. You can get a ton of wisdom in just a few sentences. But there is no reason to

• Agencies

  Sweetening the Pot

  Publishing files, once the most basic of lists, are now being offered to mailers with a variety of bells and whistles, including modeling, regression

• High Life

  FREDERICK, MD – Frederick Brewing Co. is readying an under-the-cap promotion for Hempen Ale and Hempen Gold, the first U.S. beers brewed with hemp seeds.

• Agencies

  Columbia House Starts a Positive-Option Club

  Columbia House has introduced “Play,” its first music club to operate on a positive-option basis rather than the negative option most often used by such