Dark secrets, looming disaster & the need for urgent action - haven't we been here before...?" IN THE BOOMING economies of East Asia, governments fear mass riots if food prices keep soaring. Here in the rich West, politicians fear a
Wachovia Corp. has agreed to pay as much as $144 million in a settlement with federal regulators over allegations that elderly customers were harmed by its relationship with several telemarketers....
Symantec Corp. and Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei plan to double joint venture employees to reach 3,000 employees by the end of the year. The company plans to recruit second-tier distributors to expand its distribution and high-end industry markets starting...
To some degree or another, loyalty schemes have been around for generations, but loyalty cards as we know them really took off in the 1990s. Company after company introduced them as a way of encouraging us consumers to keep coming
Schuylkill County residents who received and reported unwanted telemarketing calls from a Lehigh County home improvement business can get compensation under the terms of a settlement reached by state Attorney General Tom Corbett's...
The payment service has a slew of affordable services including customized buttons and widgets. We show you how to take advantage of these free offerings.
Wachovia Corp. has agreed to pay as much as $144 million in a settlement with federal regulators over allegations that elderly customers were harmed by its relationship with several telemarketers....
Telephone service providers make billions in revenue on directory-assistance calls each year. The keys to profitability in this business are to answer every call placed to directory assistance, automate as many as possible, keep the average call times short, and
Pareto's analysis is a very simple technique that helps you to choose the most effective changes to make to improve your operations. It uses the Pareto principle -- the idea that by doing 20 percent of the work, you can
If mashups sound like the kind of Web 2.0 application best used for checking traffic jams on Google Maps, think again: Mashups within the enterprise environment are becoming common for functions such as integrating social-networking information into CRM tools. And
Publicis - Dallas created this Knockout campaign for Sominex sleep aid featuring Boxing Glove, Mallet and Frying Pan.The brand has been around for decades and has a loyal customer base, but hadn't advertised in years. Maker GlaxoSmithKline wanted to increase
Over at DRAFTFCB Auckland, New Zealand they probably jumped for joy when they got the "Secret Diary.." brief, as we all know that sex sells and now they could do really sexy stuff. But like really classy callgirls they go
Not satisfied with passive advertising anymore, Rolling Stone and Men's Health magazines will be offering some interactivity with their ad space.What they want people to do is take a cell phone picture of a print ad in their magazine, send
Walk into any movie theater and you'll probably smell popcorn. Well, if Vogue Magazine and The Fragrance Foundation have their way, it would be perfume! No, not really....but they did come up with this user-generated contest. The winner won't get
From Ogilvy & Mather Singapore comes this poster for The Economist. Look closer. Yep. Teeny little Monopoly hotels.Executive creative director: Todd McCrackenCopywriter: Troy LimArt Director: Ashidiq GhazaliPhotgrapher: Uan
There's such a big flap over the new Gossip Girl billboard that uses a four-letter txt word, but it's not as controversial as French Connection UK's re-branding a few years ago. Everyone should just CTFO.
