Apple Stores are a mix of showroom, marketing lab, sampling station and social connecting point.

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Distribution and marketing costs including service station markup.

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The station redoubled its marketing efforts, particularly partnerships with a local music promoter and Columbus' pro hockey team, the Blue Jackets.

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Christopher Jen was at Vauxhall Tube station on his way to his marketing job when he spotted smoke rising nearby.

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In a radical move for a company that has done very little marketing, it is pitching a TV show to station groups and sponsors with the help of Sony's Columbia TriStar and talent agency William Morris.

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Jami Goldstein, vice president of marketing for the Greater Columbus Arts Council, says the station goes above and beyond.

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Cubist also scaled back to a lone coffee station and water cooler for the sales and marketing group, forcing employees to huddle and mix.

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