Five Steps to Maximize Your E-mail Campaigns

| Larry Marmon

To extract maximum value from e-mail marketing programs, you need to manage them with the same discipline applied to every other direct marketing channel. As you complete your budget planning for holiday 2008 and next year, ask yourself if your team maximizing your e-mail strategy

Why Did Steve & Barry’s Avoid Data Collection?

| Tim Parry

Why did Steve & Barry’s need to file Chapter 11? Inventory issues aside, it did a horrible job at collecting data on its customers. Matter of fact, take away credit card data, and it knew nothing at all about its customers. Data collection by Steve & Barry’s did not seem to exist

The Independents

| Ray Schultz

Walter KarlEdith RomanDirect MediaWill there be a single independent list firm standing by the time Vin Gupta is done? Good question. Gupta has said several

MCM Awards 2008

| MCM staff

It’s not easy to be the best In fact, it’s quite hard to put forth the effort that goes into flawless catalog creative, seamless Website navigation, unique,

Port of entry

| Tim Parry

It’s one thing to segment customers by behavior most merchants do. It’s another to sort them by origin. But that may be just as important for a multichannel