Internet confession time: I’m pretty nerdy. This may not come as a surprise to those of you for who have been following this blog for a while, but for new readers, let me bring you up to speed.
I just recently moved, and I had to pack up about 1,500 comic books*. One of the best gifts my girlfriend has given me is an Xbox 360, which I don’t use to play sports games or shooters, but usually old Genesis games like Altered Beast and Shining Force. And maybe most tellingly, when my girlfriend first met me, she asked why there were so many toys in my room. In my defense, they were awesome “toys,” like old Transformers and classy Marvel Legends figures, but I suppose her point still stands.
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SAN DIEGO—Mattel Inc. and its Fisher-Price subsidiary have agreed to settle a consumer lawsuit for what could total more than $50 million over the 2007 recall of millions of toys made in China
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WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama urged banks on Saturday to make more loans to small businesses and said his administration would do everything it can to push them to do so.
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Mario Guevara, chief executive officer of the BIC Group said, “In decreasing markets, our consumer business shows good resilience and we have maintained or grown our market share in most categories and geographies while advertising and promotional products sales continued to decline,
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Trevose, Pa.—The sale of promotional products, such as logoed pens, pads and clothing used as marketing giveaways, fell 10.9 percent in the third quarter
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Raining Rose Inc. announced the company is now offering same-day service on standard and basic lip balms.
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The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced some of the most popular functions currently available on usps.com are now available on cell phones and other mobile devices. The new features include Track & Confirm, Post Office locater, and the USPS’s most popular application, ZIP Code Lookup.
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While the industry buzzed and buzzed this year about social media (often using social media to do so!), another marketing discipline was steadily convincing a growing group of marketers to divert funds from offline channels.
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Newton, Iowa-based The Vernon Company announced its annual United Way fundraising campaign, “Carnival of Caring,” raised a total of $23,390 for the United Way of Jasper County. The 2009 campaign total surpassed the company’s goal amount by nearly $1,500.
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) will conduct a public hearing, called Establishment of a Public Consumer Product Safety Incident Database
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