Search Results for: influencers

  • Speaking to the Sisterhood

    Best Buy needed only one take to nail the TV spot for its School Gear back-to-school sweepstakes. The premise was familiar: Kids clamor so hard for clothes,

  • Not at Your Service

    THIS IS THE fifth year we’ve done an informal accounting of service standards in the consumer catalog industry. In the past, we generally reviewed about

  • Isn’t It Time to Swat That Stupid Millennium Bug?

    Which is a more powerful influence on human behavior, marketing or science?Based on the hoopla surrounding the forthcoming millennium, marketing is the

  • Office Depot Goes to School

    Office Depot is using direct mail, coupons and sweepstakes to target the 6.5 million national parent-teacher association (PTA) members who buy school

  • Overlays on Overdrive

    EVEN IN A narrow niche such as diabetic customers, information can provide a competitive edge. Acknowledging this, Franklin Lakes, NJ-based medical supply

  • Fee FSI Fo Fum

    Little Jack felled but one beanstalk. It was a justifiable act under the circumstances – he was seeking refuge from an aroused cannibalistic giant.We

  • Teen Idol

    HE’S YOUNG, GOOD-LOOKING and vicariously adored by approximately 4 million teenage girls. What more could Steve Kahn, the 33-year-old founder/CEO of Delia’s

  • Establishing a Relationship Marketing Program

    THIS IS PART TWO of an excerpt on relationship marketing from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing” (McGraw-Hill).Much

  • The Passages of Life

    If you’re a manufacturer of pet care products, what’s the best way to grab additional customers? Would you rather entice someone to switch to your products,

  • The Branded Generation

    Seven billion dollars. Seven billion dollars. That’s how much the promotion industry added to its total last year, according to the the 1998 Annual Report