editor’s letter

| MCM staff

When I started at Catalog Age, back in 1995, the list industry confounded me. It seemed strange that one division of a list firm helped catalogers make

Home Sweet Home

| KATHY REVELLO

We never really know what the home of our customer truly resembles is it a home out of House Beautiful or out of Motor Trends? But unless we know what

Model Opportunities

| MCM staff

FOR MANY CATALOGERS, the right customers may be just a modeling application away. Confronted with shrinking list universes, reduced response rates, and

Marrying Ops and Marketing

| Margery Weinstein

Your operations workers aren’t just fulfilling customer orders; they’re fulfilling your company’s marketing plans and communicating directly with the

at deadline

| MCM staff

BRADY BUYS EMED Milwaukee-based Brady Corp., the $555 million parent company of business safety and signage cataloger Seton, is buying one of Seton’s

HOMING IN

| MCM staff

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out who a cataloger’s best customers are: They’re the ones who shop most frequently and spend the most, of course.

the cybercritic

| MCM staff

As you might imagine, the Cybercritic is a highly sought-after speaker on the Internet marketing circuit. And with Web selling and online marketing conferences,