Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  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.

• Agencies

  THE DEL POLITO LETTER

  Postal rate cases usually center on four basic tasks: defining the amount of new revenue needed to ensure break-even operation; tracing back and attributing

• Agencies

  Rapp Collins Tops in Billings

  Rapp Collins Worldwide, with $1.615 billion in billings in 1997, leads the list of top 10 agencies, according to the Direct Marketing Association’s annual

• Acxiom Corp. Beefs Up

  CONWAY, AK – Acxiom Corp has agreed to acquire May & Speh Inc., a direct market competitor, for stock valued at $17.44 a share or about $625 million,

• Agencies

  High-Tech Firm Starts a High-Tech Campaign

  PeopleSoft Inc., the Pleasanton, CA-based software developer, has begun a high-tech DM campaign targeting Fortune 2000 companies in several major industries.The

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  Everywhere Merchants Want to Be

  Visa USA will give its retail partners magic for Christmas this year, part of an aggressive slate of consumer promotions designed to drive purchases in

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  R-E-S-P-E-C-T-What Does That Mean to Us?

  Demarcation lines have faded. Direct marketers are respectable at last. Almost as respectable as general advertising executives. Certainly as respectable

• Agencies

  Singing In Tune

  CDnow, the Internet’s top music store, and MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, Inc., announced a groundbreaking, three-year integrated marketing agreement

• The Branded Generation

  Seven billion dollars. Seven billion dollars. That’s how much the promotion industry added to its total last year, according to the the 1998 Annual Report

• Breakthrough Promos Rest on Basic Questions

  The promotion industry grows more competitive and cluttered every day. When the first radio commercial aired in 1922, it was probably the only promotion