TIPS for home-party success

| MCM staff

The notion of having the opportunity to spend more time in front of prospective customers demonstrating the features and benefits of products and a variable

Making good ideas work

| Gina Valentino

Generating marketing ideas to increase sales, build the customer file, influence shopping on the Web, or persuade prospects to make their first purchase

Postal reform time line

| MCM staff

January 1995 Rep. John M. McHugh (D-NY) is appointed U.S. Postal Service subcommittee chairman. June 1996 McHugh introduces H.R. 3717, the first postal

Business marketers booming

| Jim Tierney

For most of the business-to-business merchants and computer products marketers tracked by Multichannel Merchant, the third quarter reflected robust revenue

THE 411 on PLM

| MCM staff

Many merchants who have done quite well selling products manufactured by others are deciding to make some goods of their own. According to a study by

Get in on the party

| Tim Parry

Much as the Internet was expected to cause the demise of the print catalog, about five years ago many were predicting that the Web would be the death

Beneath the surface of search

| Brian Klais

If you are like most merchants, you’ve followed the advice of your natural-search optimization (NSO) firm and completed some basic site optimization projects.

Harvesting fresh creative

| MCM staff

Operating a farm is hard work and running a catalog of products for farmers no doubt has its challenges too. Hoping for a bumper crop of fresh ideas,