This undated publicity photo provided by Birchbox shows a typical monthly beauty sample shipment. Consumers can subscribe to companies like Birch Box to receive monthly shipments of beauty product ...

I’ve always felt that if I had a demonstrably better product than competitors and could only afford to implement one marketing element, it would nearly always be sampling. Sampling breaks through the ...

You can subscribe to just about anything these days, from bacon-of-the-month clubs to services that will send a different selection of cheese to your doorstep every month. Now, the beauty and fitness ...

CHICAGO – It’s a beauty product fan’s dream: a monthly box sent to the door filled with samples of lip glosses, face creams, hair treatments and nail polishes. The trend started a few years ago with ...

CHICAGO (AP) — It’s a beauty product fan’s dream: a monthly box sent to the door filled with samples of lip glosses, face creams, hair treatments and nail polishes. The trend started a few years ago ...