Search Results for: Marketers on Fire

  • Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail

    Gorsuch Ltd. is eagerly anticipating the first chill. The retailer of high-end ski and resort wear recently mailed the Winter 2004 edition, offering everything needed to hit the slopes in high style.

  • Live From the DMA’s List Vision: Database Basics for Brokers

    Marketers who had trouble with history, geography and applied statistics in school were given another chance yesterday, as three industry experts led

  • Storm Shelter

    Mark Shapiro stayed two years longer than his friends expected. He had a three-year earn-out when he sold Louis London to Interpublic Group of Cos. in

  • Squeeze Play

    The criminal case of Gino DeLuca is unlikely to trigger a major shift in negotiations in the in-store marketing industry. That’s happening on its own.

  • Executive Privilege

    When did the average marketer become the Common Man, a mirror to Joe or Josie Average, ready for a role in a Capra film? Apparently it happened sometime

  • Brands at the Crossroads

    On April 24, 2003, PROMO held its second invitation-only roundtable of the year. The conversation among these marketing veterans quickly focused on an

  • Pitfall protection

    This is the second in a two-part story on the pitfalls of online promotions and the best way to avoid such hazards. Contributor Jed Weissbluth continues

  • Whose WORD IS IT ANYWAY?

    The text of a direct response e-mail (not the subject line, where spam filters would kill it, dismember it and heave it into the Ganges River) suggests:

  • Hit ‘Em Hard

    Way back when I was a kid, the municipal fire department had a system of pull-activated alarms that could send a signal for help in the event of a fire.

  • War Coverage Creates Many “Avails” For DRTV Spots

    If a consumer saw a televised commercial during the current war against Iraq’s opening days, chances are it was a direct response spot. Open inventory