Chief Marketer Staff

• 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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  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

• 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

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  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

• 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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  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

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  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

• 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

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  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,

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  Introducing the Web Call Center

  Then the call center at IDT Corp. gets swamped, the Hackensack, NJ telecom company turns to Communications Service Center, a Margate, FL service bureau