Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  Card Sharks or Card Guppies-The Song’s the Same

  CARD DECKS ARE making a comeback. We went through a period in which almost nobody was mailing card decks. Now they’re reanimating themselves.But unlike

• Creativity, Wit, Results – A Recipe for Success

  What makes a winning promotion? What goes into a campaign that builds sales and market share beyond all reasonable expectations, contributes to brand

• People Agency Moves

  Frank Henson named vp of the Solutions Marketing division of J. Brown/LMC Group, Stamford, CT.Christine Cervenka named director of research and human

• Big Foot

  Back in the spring of 1997, we began brainstorming and searching for the big idea that would win us the Duracell business for its fourth quarter promotion

• Agencies

  Columbia House Starts a Positive-Option Club

  Columbia House has introduced “Play,” its first music club to operate on a positive-option basis rather than the negative option most often used by such

• Agencies

  May & Speh Acquires Sigma Marketing Group

  May & Speh Inc., Downers Grove, IL, has acquired the assets of Sigma Marketing Group Inc., a full-service database marketing company headquartered in

• Agencies

  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

• Agencies

  Abacus Report: Catalogs Were on a Roll in ’97

  Eleven out of 13 catalog categories experienced holiday season growth in 1997, with five segments having at least a 13% increase in dollar spending, according

• Agencies

  GET promo to give away $164,000 house.

  DALLAS – Giving phone discounts is one thing, but giving away new house to prove your phone rates are worth having?That’s what GTE Corp. is doing in a

• High Life

  FREDERICK, MD – Frederick Brewing Co. is readying an under-the-cap promotion for Hempen Ale and Hempen Gold, the first U.S. beers brewed with hemp seeds.