Here, or over there?

| Mark Del Franco

Many U.S. catalogers have realized that there’s money to be made selling overseas (31% of the participants in Catalog Age’s 1999 Benchmark Report on Marketing

At Deadline

| MCM staff

GENESIS DIRECT DOWNSIZES After building a stable of more than 30 catalogs over three years, Genesis Direct announced on Feb. 3 that it would sell all

Low-cost forks

| Mark Del Franco

Smaller catalogers may not think they have the money or the space to invest in a warehouse forklift, but several new compact forklift trucks have recently

Thinking outside the mailbox

| Lisa Henderson

Let’s say a cataloger of tabletop items is discontinuing a china pattern. Database triggers could stimulate this mailer to telephone all the high-value

Online Office Supplies.com

| Moira Pascale

When Paula Jagemann came up nearly empty after searching the Internet last year for office supplies, she decided to start an online office products catalog

Apparel in peril

| Shannon Oberndorf

Casual apparel catalogers Lands’ End and L.L. Bean reported near-flat sales over the past year. Multititle clothing mailer Brylane suffered a 4.7% drop

Thehut.com

| MCM staff

General merchandise cataloger Fingerhut Cos. has tapped into the college-age market with a new online and print catalog, Thehut.com. The Website launched

Head of the class

| MCM staff

The phrase “school supplies” typically conjures up images of chalkboard erasers and colored construction paper-unless you’re Dan Spalding, chairman/CEO

Improving your merge/purge

| Peter Girard

A quick way to sabotage any mailing is to take the merge/purge process for granted, says Joe Balaban, vice president of business development at Farmingdale,