Chief Marketer Staff

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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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  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

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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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  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

• More High-Tech, Still High-Touch

  Marketers spent $748 million on in-store services in 1997, including $172 million on loyalty card programs, funded mostly by retailers. Promotion is the

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  It’s a Wrap

  The annual PMA Star Power conference lived up to its title last month when both Ron Howard and Will Smith spoke to about 500 marketing executives on Warner

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  Have Book, Will Travel

  Eight-year-old retailer Audio Adventures began direct sales this spring, renting (and selling) mostly through a Web site, www.audioadventures.com.The

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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

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  P-O-P Gains, But Girds for Tobacco Withdrawal

  Marketers last year spent $13.1 billion on point-of-purchase displays, an increase of 5 percent above 1996.Some segments had growth rates that exceeded

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  Bride of Frankincense

  Forget that we just celebrated Independence Day. For some people, it’s never too early to start buying Christmas presents. With that in mind, Old World