PRICE COUNTS…

| MCM staff

Among more than 500 Internet users surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, more than half ranked price as the most important factor when shopping for media

STRATEGIES: ONE BIG SECRET

| Mark Del Franco

Victoria’s Secret parent integrating brands and channelsFor the past two years, Intimate Brands Inc.’s chairman/CEO Leslie H. Wexner has held monthly

Replacing the Missing Link

| Curt Barry

On Jan. 29, I ordered three custom-made gifts, with three different ship-to addresses, from an e-commerce site that also has a thriving catalog business.

Building a Better Brookstone

| Diane Cyr

As a gadgets marketer with “innovation” as its tag line, Brookstone in the past few years has innovated:- an electronic barbecue fork- a hair dryer that

REDUCING YOUR COST PER ORDER

| Curt Barry

All catalogers would like to increase profits, but in today’s competitive marketplace, there’s a limit to how much you can raise your prices or lower

POSTAL: Rate hike outrage…

| Paul Miller

Near-15% postage increase proposal has mailers up in armsFor several months, the U.S. Postal Service had warned that it would propose a rate hike for

Postal horror story

| Kelly Standridge

I would like to bring to your attention my recent experience with the Postal Service, specifically the Washington, DC, bulk mail center (BMC). We sent