Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  Catalog Sales on Rise: WEFA

  Catalog sales continue to grow at a faster rate than total sales to consumers and businesses in the United States, according to a recently updated study

• Agencies

  Mrs. Butterworth’s hot air balloon starts tour.

  COLUMBUS, OH – Giving new meaning to the term “rise and shine,” Aurora Foods launched the “Breakfast Over America” balloon tour. It features a 30-foot

• Enjoying the Moveable Feast

  LOS ANGELES – Colby Effler & Partners, Beverly Center’s agency of record, has launched a year-long direct mail campaign highlighting the exclusive bonuses

• 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

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  On the Road Again

  BOULDER, CO – Schwinn, the self-proclaimed American Classic, has sponsorship partners clinging to it like swarms of bees on a branch. Kraft Food’s Tang

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  The Sher Solution

  Database marketers have a new resource available. It’s R. K. Sher & Associates, Highland Park, IL, founded by longtime industry leader Bob Sher. Sher

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  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

• 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

• Agencies

  USPS Kills Auto Day Mail Program

  Under fire from the Newspaper Association of America and even some local mailers, the U.S. Postal Service shelved plans last month to launch its Auto

• Agencies

  Account-Specific Spotlight: Hartford/New Haven, CT

  Hartford and New Haven supermarkets are big on service and specialty departments. Seventy percent of stores in the area have prepared-food departments,