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27 Apr

Cremation Society ceases marketing pre-need contracts

A settlement reached by the Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association and the Cremation Society of Pennsylvania for the Cremation Society to cease marketing pre-need cremation services may have little effect on local funeral homes.
A Pennsylvania Funeral Directors law by the state determined that only licensed funeral directors can offer cremation services to the public. But even [...]

27 Apr

Neiman Marcus part of condo-marketing plan for the Bravern

Dori Aramesh and her husband, Mike Karimi, already have a downtown Bellevue condo and don’t need another.
But Aramesh, 67, bought a second condo anyway just a few blocks from where she lives after learning that Neiman Marcus will open a department store next year at the Bravern.
“I love to shop, and I realized, my God, [...]

27 Apr

Artist Author Publishes Marketing Tips for Emerging Artists

Artist Kelli Swan has published her second book, “From Creating Art to Creating Income - Marketing Tips for the Visual Artist.” A collection of art marketing tips, this handbook is designed to help emerging artists market and sell their own artwork.
A professional artist for over 25 years, Kelli specializes in detailed pencil drawings depicting various [...]

27 Apr

Beef Checkoff Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board team up for promo

It’s one of the great partnerships in culinary history–savory grilled hamburgers or steaks and delicious Wisconsin cheese. For dairy producers–who are, of course, also beef producers–two exciting new summertime promotions funded by the beef checkoff and the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, Inc. (WMMB) will encourage consumers to pair these food favorites.
Father’s Day Favorites and Bold [...]

27 Apr

Personalized marketing focus of new company

When Allen Woolf and Wally Ure were stranded in a hotel on a business trip several years ago, they didn’t know how often they would keep finding themselves in the same room.
Then, it was a New Hampshire snowstorm that kept Woolf, president of Total Printing Solutions, and Ure, then a Xerox salesman, stuck together.
Today, it [...]

23 Apr

Paying consumers to look at ads clicks for online marketing firm

Daren Cotter gives new meaning to the concept of “precocious.”
I mean, he was in second grade, for crying out loud, when he launched his entrepreneurial career by buying candy, and later a variety of fad items, in bulk at Sam’s Club and reselling them to classmates on the school bus and playground.
Cotter moved up a [...]

23 Apr

Tyson to Appeal Marketing Ban

NEW YORK Tyson Foods said it would appeal the ruling of a federal judge in Baltimore, who has granted a preliminary injunction against the marketing Tyson has used saying that its poultry products don’t contain antibiotics thought to promote drug resistance in humans.
Last June, responding to what it called “broad-scale consumer demand,” Tyson said that [...]

23 Apr

Expands marketing team

Scottrade said Wednesday it hired Sam Yount as manager of advertising strategy to oversee the online investment firm’s online marketing strategy.
Yount is responsible for Scottrade’s Internet display advertising, search marketing, and social media, as well as all online marketing analytics. He most recently was manager of interactive solutions for Brighton, a St. Louis-based marketing and [...]

23 Apr

Indian refiner IOC to spend $500 mln on marketing

IOC is India’s largest oil refiner that has a capacity to process 1.2 million barrels of oil per day along with its group firms.
It will add 800 rural outlets in the current financial year that began on April 1 to its existing about 2,100 fuel stations in the country, Director of Marketing G.C. Daga said.
He [...]

21 Apr

Academic report conference on marketing held in Beijing

An academic report conference on marketing, International Marketing in China in the 21st Century, was held recently in Beijing. The conference was organized by the Training Center of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China (TCSAFEA).
Willis Turner, President and CEO of Sales & Marketing Executives International (SMEI), analyzed the current status of Marketing [...]


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