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Unscrubbed E-mail Files Pose Risks To Marketers: Study

|  by Richard H. Levey

Chances are pretty good a consumer who hasn't opened a marketer's e-mail in three and a half years isn't a viable prospect. Yet in a study of more than 100 retailers, almost one-third were still mailing to these individuals at exactly the same rate they ...

Syms’ best customer was an educated customer

|  by Tim Parry

That was the off-price clothier's catch phrase back in the 70s (seems everyone who lived in the New York Tri-state area back then has repeated that phrase upon learning Syms filed for Chapter 11 on Wednesday. It's rare we talk about single-channel ...

Too Cute to Win Our Halloween Costume Contest

|  by Tim Parry

Okay, it's not that my son is too stinkin' cute to win the 1st Annual Multichannel Merchant Halloween Costume Contest, it's that it's probably not right to let an MCM staffer's too stinkin' cute son win! That's bad news for me, and good news for ...

White is the New (Coca-Cola) Red

Coca-Cola is a marketing marvel, arguably one of the best, ever evolving its creative messaging and continually changing it up just enough to keep consumers excited about what the brand will come up with next. This time, and for the first time, it has ...

Deciphering Mobile Analytics Isn’t Easy

|  by Tim Parry

It seems whenever I go to a sit-down lunch at a conference or trade show, there's a bunch of conversations going on at once, or people are too busy checking their emails on their mobile devices. But last week at the Mobile Marketing Fall summit in New ...