Chief Marketer Staff, Author at Chief Marketer

Well-Done Promotion

If you plan on popping into one of Omaha Steaks’ grand opening galas for its new retail outlets, carry a big shopping bag.With a $25 purchase you can

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RELATIONSHIP MARKETING: Hershel’s New Role

Hershel B. Sarbin, former president and CEO of Cowles Business Media, has a new job. He has joined Marketing 1to1/ Peppers and Rogers Group, a relationship

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Pac Bell Backs Off Telemarketing Plan

Pacific Bell is backing down from a plan to telemarket its services to customers with unpublished phone numbers.The phone company filed a request with

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Smart Bombing

The 31 American Tire & Service Co. stores under Scott Hook’s oversight had participated in mass advertising programs before, but in late 1997 Hook wanted

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Troubles Not Over for AFP

American Family Publishers Inc. must have thought it was out of the woods. In March, it settled lawsuits by 31 states and the District of Columbia by

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DISNEY DIRECT MARKETING

Michael Eisner, the high-powered CEO of The Walt Disney Co., has a simple formula for his managers: You have to achieve regular annual growth of 20% to

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Back to the Drawing Board

Back to the 50’s, a mail order catalog owned by Crowne Ventures Corp., Las Vegas, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 8. But this summer

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Just be yourself: HICKORY FARMS

When Hickory Farms decided to launch its Web site three years ago, some thought the catalog should feature more exotic fare than the hearty staples that

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CRIME: Fatal Mail Order?

Marvin Patrick Sullivan, a former mental patient, is accused of killing Millbrae, CA police officer David Chetcuti with a rifle that may have been built

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Back to the Drawing Board

Back to the 50’s, a mail order catalog owned by Crowne Ventures Corp., Las Vegas, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 8. But this summer