GAINESVILLE - Prompted by a "dramatic increase" in their client base, local Internet marketing agency Red Clay Interactive (RCI) recently increased their staff by 50% with the addition of six new staff members.

Anthony White, vice president of marketing for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, was named senior VP, marketing.

Deena Stern, senior director of brand-marketing strategy at Comedy Central, was named vice president, brand marketing and executive creative director.

Ad holding company Interpublic Group has bought branded entertainment shop Translation Consulting + Brand Imaging. Financial terms were not disclosed. The New York-based company, which will be held as stand alone unit, tends to focus on youth and multicultural marketing campaigns for the likes of Reebok and General Motors.

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Find out what 3,100 marketers revealed about costs, conversions and search marketing trends. Highlights include: -> Dealing with the rise in click costs -> How PPC and SEO rank for top ROI -> Search marketing's move in-house -> Correlation between paid ads and natural search ranking -> Power of short URLs

Lake Champlain Chocolates (LCC), a gourmet Vermont chocolate maker, has its holiday line of all-natural Christmas chocolates and Hanukkah chocolates arriving on retail store shelves now, and also available at www.lakechamplainchocolates.com. (PRWeb Oct 31, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/SG9yci1UaGlyLVByb2YtTG92ZS1UaGlyLVplcm8=

Fortune Market Rolex Sports Car team to become first North American publicly traded race team (PRWeb Oct 30, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/UHJvZi1IYWxmLUZhbHUtTG92ZS1UaGlyLVplcm8=

Salespeople hate to cold call. Yet their job is to find new customers. What everyone avoids talking about in the sales interview is that the salesperson must cold call to find those customers. It's sales' dirty little secret. If you require your salespeople to cold call and you want to train them to get better at it quickly, check out the new website www.SalesWebinarsOnDemand.com. (PRWeb Oct 30, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RmFsdS1JbnNlLVByb2YtTG92ZS1UaGlyLVplcm8=

Progressive online ad network, CPX Interactive, joins the beta program for the new DoubleClick online marketplace (PRWeb Oct 30, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RmFsdS1TcXVhLUVtcHQtWmV0YS1UaGlyLVplcm8=