Search Results for: influencers

  • More High-Tech, Still High-Touch

    Marketers spent $748 million on in-store services in 1997, including $172 million on loyalty card programs, funded mostly by retailers. Promotion is the

  • Tools of the Trade

    Marketers use several terms-ROI, profitability, lifetime value and RFM-as if they are synonymous. They aren’t. Each has its own special use in database

  • Backstage at an Information Revolution

    Most would agree that fulfillment is not one of the more exciting ends of the promotion business, yet few could deny that 1997 gave the industry’s workhorse

  • Aw, Rats-Socks and Underwear!

    I’ve written in this space before about all the nifty, neat, sometimes useful but often downright odd stuff one brings back from conferences.Look around

  • Get Off Your Duff – Take Responsibility

    Despite all that’s been said about the need to learn how to market in an increasingly electronic age, there’s no disputing that hard-copy messaging will

  • SIMPLY Irresistible

    1. Send ‘Em One White Sock Too often, “we want you back” appeals are boring.But they don’t have to be. Take a look at what the marketing managers at Ansett

  • More Than Points

    There’s an old Washington, D.C. adage that an honest politician is one who, when bought, will stay bought. Were this true in the consumer arena, loyalty

  • Hall of Fame

    Quick-name those people and/or companies you feel had the most influence on the catalog industry over the last few decades. Even harder, name those who