Fine print

| Jim Tierney

Your list broker is important to you. So is your tailor. But both of them take a back seat to the most essential partner of all: Your printer. Finding

Red Envelope finds a buyer maybe

| MCM staff

It looks like gifts cataloger Red Envelope, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 17, will be sold to Creative Catalogs Corp. The

Not so many March mailings

| Tim Parry

The weak U.S. economy has seen catalogers tightening their belts, and now it appears they have changed their mailing habits. Numbers reported by Catalog

Social discourse

| MCM staff

The easiest way to build a community around your brand is to create a dialog with your customers. If Web 1.0 was a monologue or broadcast, then Web 2.0

Spice Up Copy with Specifics

| Evan Elliot

You’re walking down the street, minding your own business, and all of a sudden you see a car swerve off the road and hit a small dog. Before you can even

Three tips for tight times

| Steve Trollinger

You don’t need another article telling you how bad the economy is right now and what that means for your business. We all know that postal and paper prices

Returns to Sender

| Rob Martinez

Many merchants these days are working with such limited resources that they’re often stretched just to get product out the door to customers. What happens

Slim chances

| MCM staff

Does the U.S. Postal Service hate catalogs? From the major rate hike it imposed on them in 2007 to the proposed restrictions on or letter-size catalogs,