Baby steps toward brand innovation

| MCM staff

Remember the truth-or-dare games you played in grade school: I dare you to leave a note in Eddie’s locker! or I dare you to call Bobby’s house! Those

Best Bets for Promoting E-gift Cards

| Tim Parry

If you’re going to embrace the growing e-gift-card business, you need to augment those efforts with the proper marketing program. Lauren Freedman, president

We Got Our Mullet Back

| MCM staff

We received an awesome promotional product this summer a mullet wig, courtesy of font management and digital asset management software developer Extensis.

J.C. Penney Quitting Catalogs

| MCM staff

Spokesperson Darcie Brossart says J.C. Penney will instead distribute “look books.” These resemble catalogs but carry less merchandise, have no catalog item numbers and refer customers to Penney