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Jose Cuervo International is out with new flavored premium tequilas.

Marketers want to the right thing when it comes to metrics. But their desire far outpaces their ability, judging by a new CMO Council survey.

One thing you say for marketers is that they are hardly satisfied with themselves. And that’s especially true when it comes to their customer data capabilities. In a recent survey by the CMO Council, 40% rated their systems as weak or worse.

The notorious criminal Willie Sutton once was asked why he robbed banks. “Because that’s where the money is,” he replied. Welcome to the 21st century, Willie. These days more and more of the money is online, and banks are embracing Web data analysis to secure their share of it.

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating XM Satellite Radio’s marketing practices to see if it has violated the Can-Spam Act and/or the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the satellite radio company said in an official filing last week.

A Paramount Pictures promotion for the upcoming release of Mission: Impossible: III involving newspaper racks got off to a bang over the weekend, as police mistook a device attached to a rack that played the film’s theme song for a bomb.

TOO MANY LOYALTY marketers think they have to be all things to all customers; they design programs that are either too expensive or offer inadequate rewards.

NEW LISTS Bauer Publishing More than 200,000 active subscribers are named on Bauer Publishing’s enhanced entertainment master file. All of Bauer’s entertainment

A NEW RATE CASE SEEKING A postage increase in 2007 is about to be filed with the postal Board of Governors, said Postmaster General Jack Potter during

MOBILE MARKETING IS ON THE WAY, AND IT WILL usher in a Golden Age. Soon we’ll all be receiving rich-media ads over our Internet phones, being enticed