With NCOA, It’s OK To Procrastinate

| Tim Parry

How close to your mail date do you run your lists against the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address (NCOA) file? You may want to wait even longer. Find out why Jim Leone thinks procrastination is key to a better mailing.

Systematically Decrease Frequency to Weaker Buyers

| Bill Nicolai

Many companies we see treat each mailing as an individual event and they’re not deliberately resting weaker segments between contacts. If you do so, it will decrease marketing costs and increase profits at essentially no cost in sales. I have an effective formula that was originally developed by a long-term client. It is an elegant concept, easy to apply, and effective.

April mailings inch up

| Tim Parry

April isn’t just about rain showers, it also brings spring catalogs. Catalog Tracker started off the second quarter with 370 catalogs received for April,

A lesson in catalog anatomy

| MCM staff

When you sell charts, posters, and models of various parts of the human anatomy, it’s not always easy to sex up your catalog design. Anatomical Chart

Cruising for co-ops

| Tim Parry

Here’s some advice for anyone looking for a co-op database: Play the field. That is, don’t rely on only one. Try them all, and go with the ones that work.

Crutchfield Mails Canadian Catalog

| Tim Parry

After testing the Canadian market with a Website last fall, consumer electronics merchant Crutchfield this month launched a print catalog specifically for Canada.