Chief Marketer Staff
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B-to-B Catalogers’ Market Leadership May Be Misleading
For more than two years, direct marketing stock pickers have trumpeted the advantages of buying shares in business-to-business companies rather than stock
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Building Custom Models for Potential Mailers
If you own a large active or inactive customer file and you’re not building custom list rental models for potential list users then you’re probably missing
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Aw, Rats-Socks and Underwear!
I’ve written in this space before about all the nifty, neat, sometimes useful but often downright odd stuff one brings back from conferences.Look around
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If Your Caddy Zigs, Does Your Jaguar Jag?
A brutal question: When was the last time national advertising for automobiles caused you to take any positive action other than stifling a yawn? Or scratching
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Parlez-Vous Francais?
Two new catalogs raise the question of authenticity and pretentiousness in marketing-and not a moment too soon. What with the Catalog Conference in Boston
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Get Off Your Duff – Take Responsibility
Despite all that’s been said about the need to learn how to market in an increasingly electronic age, there’s no disputing that hard-copy messaging will
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CONFERENCES: Alarms and Excursions
Our plans when traveling to conferences are usually simple: Attend sessions, meet colleagues, send copy back to New York and sleep.At the Canadian Direct
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Foster & Gallagher Springs Up on the Web
Foster & Gallagher, Peoria, IL, the megabig horticultural direct marketer, has been taking a slow approach to the Web, but made a major plunge in late
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OUTDOOR ADVERTISING: Friends Don’t Let Friends Drink and Redeem Coupons
Sweetwater Tavern in Centreville, VA will never again underestimate the power of direct response advertising.To promote the restaurant, The Dan Rosenthal