Desperate to win a contest? ABC is inviting fans of its hit comedy Desperate Housewives to enter an online quiz and sweeps, offering a grand-prize trip to attend the show's DVD launch party in Los Angeles. Desperate fans seeking to win a prize can ...
Marketing to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community isn't as difficult as quantifying the market. That was one conclusion you could draw from the Reaching Out conference held in February by students at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Yale School of Management.
Direct marketers put a huge amount of time and money into examining, testing, analyzing, and fine-tuning their marketing on a campaign-by-campaign basis. The results of a single campaign are judged by response rates, average spend amounts, and often, the ROI generated by that campaign.
While merchants and their customers believe that superior customer service is extremely important, the two differ on the most important customer service elements, according to a new national survey conducted by the NRF Foundation, an arm of the National Retail Federation, and the American Express Co.
According to CATALOG AGE’s Benchmark Report on Operations, which will appear in the April issue, a mean 35.5% of catalogers’ orders come via the Web. So it stands to reason that Internet buyers account for a growing share of catalogers’ print circulation
Having an emotional bond gives a marketer a license to go places with a consumer they wouldn't be welcome otherwise. As an example of this, Bob Wallach, senior vice president of marketing, refrigerated division, ConAgra Foods, cited the Walt Disney Company. Disney used the warm feelings the public had for its characters to make the…
Meeting the consumer's current needs isn't enough to guarantee success. According to Forrester Research, a marketer must also anticipate future needs. In a recently released report, Forrester analyst Christine Spivey Overby dubs this proactive approach "consumer-focused innovation" and outlines its three basic principles
Dreyer's/Edy's salutes friendly neighborhoods with a summer contest awarding all the fixings for a block party. Neighbors nominate their own block online The Two Scoop Neighborhood Salute asks consumers to visit Icecream.com to write an essay ...
A little incentive goes a long way, especially when it concerns a year's worth of free travel. American Airlines is offering consumers a chance to win a year's worth of travel for sharing their unique stories about why they fly as a way to motivate ...
Big Idea, a subsidiary of Classic Media LLC, and Applebee's Neighborhood Bar and Grill have kicked off a three-month long promotion tying in kids meals with the latest VeggieTales episode release. Applebee's, Tyson Foods offer separate promos for ...
