10 Techniques to Squeeze More Out of Holiday Buyers
Holiday buyers are a unique segment of your catalog
Jim Coogan
How Often Should You Mail Your Buyers?
How frequently can you mail your buyers, and how frequently should you mail your buyers? These are critical questions for planning your catalog
Twelve Tactics for Mailing Web Buyers
Web buyers are different from traditional mail order buyers. What legendary entrepreneur Ray Kroc said about McDonald
Using Ink-jet Messages to Turbocharge Response
Why customize your ink-jet messages? People read their ink-jet messages because the message has their name and address. Catalog buyers are also trained to look for promotional offers in the message portion of their ink-jet address. Ink-jet personalization is the poor man
Time to Consider Comailing?
The good news: Comailing your catalog reduces your postage dramatically, which can enable you to prospect more, allow you to mail deeper into your house file, or simply improve your bottom line. The better news: printers are changing their mail pooling requirements to allow many more catalogers to save via comailing.
Metrics for Managing Your Co-op Database Circulation
For most mailers, understanding the cooperative databases is a big part of managing a catalog
Modeling Disjoint Groups
To determine if your house file includes a significant number of certain merchandise category buyers, you need to categorize your customers by the type of merchandise they buy, then measure the intersection or crossover between the merchandise buyer groups.
Measuring True Incremental Sales
Measuring the incremental sales that result from a buyer remail is the key metric in determining how deep to mail into your buyer file. Setting up tests to measure the incremental sales from house file mailings gives you the necessary metrics to draw the line at your true breakeven sales for these customers.