Chief Marketer Staff

• Detox for Discounters

  What is the worst word in the marketer’s lexicon? To me, it’s “discounting,” a word that is defined as “cutting the price,” but really means “incenting

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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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  Hollywood Holds the Line

  Marketers spent an estimated $5.14 billion on promotional licenses in 1997, a 3 percent increase driven mostly by film tie-ins. At the same time, consumer

• What’s Wrong Turns Out Right

  ABC execs thought they had a winner when they dreamed up a contest to have fans pick out the mistakes in one episode of The Drew Carey Show. But they

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  100G prize marks Gund centennial.

  EDISON, NJ – Any Teddy Bear can make you happy, but it takes a special one to make you rich.In celebration of 100 years of business, plush toymaker Gund

• Drawing Heavily on China

  NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA – The Disney feature film Mulan, provides the theme for a new Web site sweepstakes that offers hundreds of prizes, including a $500

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  PRIVACY PENDULUM

  In May, during a commencement speech, Vice President Al Gore called for an “Electronic Bill of Rights” to allow Americans to protect their privacy.In

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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

• Deregulated Mail

  LOMBARD, IL – Metromail Corp. has partnered with PNR Associates, Inc., to deliver household-level marketing data to service providers in newly deregulated

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  U.S. Bank Mailing Succeeds Despite Low Response

  Once upon a time there was a direct marketing campaign that didn’t get any response.What-no flurry of telephone calls? No BRCs returned? Nothing.Not that