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What are the top marketing magazines and databases?

Marketing & Advertising mentor Lisa H. Buksbaum responds: The top marketing magazines and databases include: Read story

Sales Promotion

Sales promotion is one level or type of marketing aimed either at the consumer or at the distribution channel (in the form of sales-incentives). It is use...  Read story

Advertising Media—Audio

The most common audio advertising medium is FM radio. Placement of an advertisement on FM radio costs about as much as an advertisement placed in a metrop...  Read story

What's Next: Stupid Productivity Tricks

Worried that employees are wasting time on the Web? Here's why you shouldn't crack down.  Read story

Think Twice About Following The Leader

Mr. Falvey's remark about Advertising Age magazine only shows that his column confuses networking, advertising, and sales promotion, not marketing. To sa...  Read story

Advertising Media—Video

Related Terms: Advertising Mediaâ...  Read story

Employment Contracts

Employment contracts replace the normal hiring arrangement between employer and employee with a legal document in which the employment relationship is spe...  Read story

Focus, Focus, Focus

Here's how you can take advantage of the strength that all small businesses share--their smallness.  Read story

Nader Rater

What Ralph Nader doesn't seem to understand ("[Still] Unsafe at any Speed," Face-to-Face, December 1985) is that few people can live their lives as though...  Read story

Outlook 2006: Communication

Get hip to blogs.  Read story

Profit Center

Related Terms: Outsourcing A profit center is a busine...  Read story

In this Issue

Reflecting on the current business climate and an unstoppable force.  Read story

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on: advertising the way the big players do; outsourcing employee exit interviews; installing an intranet-based employee feedback system; and...  Read story

Big-Bucks Ads: Advertise the Way the Big Players Do

It used to be that only humongous companies like Anheuser-Busch could afford to do an advertising blitz during a megaevent like the Super Bowl. Lately, sm...  Read story

The Price of Ignorance

How much should you pay for a premium Web site? If only there were a simple answer.  Read story

How To Order Ads A La Carte

Jim Stevens walked into the offices of HyperCreative Advertising feeling like one of the biggest frogs in the pond. He'd budgeted $100,000 for his new ad...  Read story

Revolution for the Hec of It

Advertising CEO revolutionized the industry with fixed price offerings.  Read story

Legal Lemons, PR Lemonade

To fight a lawsuit brought by a giant rival, Tom Szaky of TerraCycle is doing what he loves--going on the offensive.  Read story

Deejays' Chatter Brightens Tub Cleanser's Prospects

Paul C. Porter of Automation Inc. needed to advertise his cutting-edge cleanser but lacked the capital to compete with giants like Clorox. His savior: radio ...  Read story

Inner Beauties

Here's how Children's Orchard, a franchiser of children's discount stores, uses an intranet to alert franchisees to news about new products and unite them un...  Read story

Your Message Here

Placing banner ads on Web sites used to be for big businesses with huge advertising budgets. Now that companies like SmartAge promote free banner exchanges, ...  Read story

The Wexley Way

In the advertising racket, the future is coming up fast. Or maybe it's already here, at an obstreperous little agency called Wexley School for Girls  Read story

Search Employ

Learning how to be your own headhunter can help your company in ways that go beyond filling a specific job.  Read story

Buy The Numbers

John Malec and Gerry Eskin had a great idea for a new company. All they had to do was what no marketing-research firm had ever done before.  Read story

Redesigning America

On the road with the man who's helping businesses profit from our aging population, and building a company of his own in the process  Read story

Mind Gains

Here's how Viant CEO Bob Gett, fueled by his desire to quit consulting, designed a work environment that nobody would want to leave. In the process, he may h...  Read story

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