Will success spoil your call center?

| MCM staff

Your last two seasons have come in over projection. Unfortunately, the good-natured, “all hands on deck” excitement that has sustained you and the entire

Growing pains

| Diane Cyr

It’s no coincidence that many entrepreneurs call their catalogs their “babies.” Like their human counterparts, no two catalogs ever seem to grow up in

Opinion & Response backword

| MCM staff

A casket full of cheer As this month’s Benchmark Report on Merchandising (p.129) shows, catalogers continually strive to come up with product that sets

Your 21st-century customer

| Sherry Chiger

It’s no coincidence that specialty catalog shopping came of age in the mid-1980s, shortly after the baby boomers did. But the first of the boomers are

The Ones to Watch

| Diane Cyr

For more than 100 years, cataloging has been an upstart business. But by 2001, look for the big boys to be taking over. And as you’d expect, the people