Chief Marketer Staff

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  Translation Errors

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

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  DMA Names Catalog VP

  The Direct Marketing Association has named Roscoe Burton Starek III senior vice president, catalog industry. Starek is a former federal trade commissioner

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  You Beta, You Beta, You Bet

  A FEW TRENDS have come to light in our semiannual roundup of new database products. Most strikingly, the advent of increasingly powerful desktop computers

• PromoNews

  CINCINNATI – Hasbro, Inc. announced plans to produce a new line of collectable die-cast cars, radio-controlled cars, games, and puzzles. All the new products

• Tommy Screams

  Looking for a new way to capture the elusive teen market, Tommy Hilfiger just agreed to a multi-million deal to put Tommy Jeans and one of his models

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  DEMOGRAPHICS

  Dustin Hoffman gave us our first image of a man raising a child in “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But it was the image of Michael Keaton at home that gave the concept

• 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.

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  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

• Does Size Matter?

  While size doesn’t seem to have helped Columbia TriStar’s Godzilla, DreamWorks is hoping its movie about Small Soldiers becomes the big summer hit.The

• Agencies Who’s News

  Catering to Kids A team of seasoned pros in premium-based promotions have opened the doors of a new Dallas agency that will go after the fast-growing