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Ad Biz Drama “Trust Me” Tanks on TNT

|  by Beth Negus Viveiros

After one season, TNT has pulled the plug on "Trust Me," a drama set in a Chicago advertising agency. Does anyone care? I have to admit, I was pretty ambivalent about the show myself. I tuned into the premiere a few months back to (a) check out ...

Saturday Night Live Skewers DM

|  by Beth Negus Viveiros

So.....any direct marketers out there catch Saturday Night Live last week? What did you think of the no holds barred parody PSA from the "Alliance of Direct Mail Marketers?" You can view it here. Did you laugh? Or did you wince? Wonder what the ...

Baseball and The Bird

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

I attended opening day at Miller Park to watch The Milwaukee Brewers win in the bottom of the ninth. My wife has gone to opening day 27 years in a row. Getting there was a pain, but I had the chance to spend the day with my best friend, my wife. At ...

Bridgeport Bluefish Learning Lesson About Complacency

|  by Tim Parry

The Bridgeport Bluefish were once the darlings of Southern Connecticut. The independent team knocked a nearby affiliated team right off the map, and set all sorts of minor league baseball attendance records along the way. But they enter their 12th season ...

The Day The Ad Became The News…

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

The Los Angeles Times has just run an ad, on its front page and the concept seems to have many folks talking. The one-column Ad ran Thursday, 4/9/09 and it featured the NBC cop show "Southland." What's your take on the ad and its ...

Can’t Get Mad at Drs. Foster and Smith

|  by Tim Parry

Nope, that's just impossible. Even if I think they made a mistake that I shouldn't have had to deal with. Even before I realized I was the dummy who read a question wrong on the Drs. Foster and Smith Website. For a dumb reason I mistook "How will ...

I’m Blogging About an Article About Blogging

|  by Tim Parry

I know, it sounds like Seinfeld and his show about nothing... but not really. I'm telling you to read an article called How to Avoid the Five Biggest Corporate Blogging Mistakes by blogging authority Chris Baggott. We ran it in our i-merchant ...