Chief Marketer Staff

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  Brokers Break Bread

  American List Counsel Inc.’s executive vice president Fran Green and president Donn Rappaport welcomed more than 100 brokers in May to the firm’s second

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  Peterman Floats Online Ad Test

  The J. Peterman Co. dipped its toe into the online advertising waters this spring with a test campaign for the Heart of the Ocean necklace from its “Titanic”

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  Kemmler’s Law

  Moments before becoming the first man ever to go to the electric chair, William Kemmler complained about his press coverage. “I’m bad enough,” he said.

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  Prizewinning growth

  Marketers spent $24 billion on premiums in 1997, with growth in consumer and business-to-business premiums boosting the category 6 percent. The segment

• 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

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  The Mark(eting) of Zorro

  We must confess that Zorro was our first career choice. We could never understand why our parents were upset when we ran down the corridor to carve Zs

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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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  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

• 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