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More Articles from Marketing Information: MORE RESOURCES: Site: Yahoo! News Search Results for marketing SearchDay: Online Videos as Learning and Marketing Tools (Search Engine Watch) Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: YouTube-ery: Online Videos as Learning and Marketing Tools; Change How You Think About Your Life and Company; MapQuest, Google Launch Blackberry Mobile Apps; and more. Lend a Hand: Use marketing skills to help nonprofits (Portsmouth Herald) It's hard to get attention these days, especially as a nonprofit with limited means. If you're a marketing professional with skills from graphic design to public relations, then you can make all the difference for nonprofits that need to share their... Wechsel im Marketing (FVW.com) Helen Bardtenschlager verantwortet ab sofort die Marketing-Aktivitäten von LAN Airlines in Deutschland. Ihre Vorgängerin Angelika Lucius geht in den Mutterschaftsurlaub. Pfizer: withdraws Zeven marketing applications (Pharmaceutical Business Review) Healthcare giant Pfizer has announced that the marketing applications for its skin infection treatment Zeven (dalbavancin) are to be withdrawn, pending another multi-center trial for the drug. This setback could cost Pfizer dearly: another trial could push the drugs launch date out to September 2010, five full years after its proposed launch date and just two years before its first patent expiry. Ag Society, IdeaLogic Marketing part ways (North Platte Telegraph) The North Platte Telegraph The marketing firm of IdeaLogic has handled the marketing and advertising efforts for the Lincoln County Fair for the past two years - but there won't be a third. Kmart names new marketing chief (Chicago Sun-Times) Ailing retailer Kmart has reached into the hotel industry for its new chief marketing officer. Next plots marketing revamp (Mad.co.uk) Retail giant Next is overhauling its marketing strategy in a bid to increase sales, following a slump in its profits due to the economic downturn. The importance of marketing to open-source projects (CNET) Open source may make better software, but marketing is what makes people care enough to download it. Powered Shares the Secrets of Successful Social Marketing Programs at Shop.org Annual Summit (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) AUSTIN, Texas----Powered, a leading provider of social marketing programs that drive measurable business results, today announced that it will be exhibiting at the Shop.org Annual Summit, taking place September 15 - 17 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Europcar UK plans major brand re-launch, strengthens marketing team (eyefortravel.com) Europcar UK Group has appointed Catriona Lougher as marketing director as the group strengthened its marketing structure in preparation for its multi-million pound re-launch in the UK in 2009. Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (> required at line 14, column 29) in /home/.hellodolly/jsteiner64/scholarlyarticles.org/marketing/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc on line 238 Site: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/.hellodolly/jsteiner64/scholarlyarticles.org/marketing/inc/rss.php on line 26 |
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