Opting in to offers

| Shannon Oberndorf

Many catalogers have determined that while banner ads and traditional advertising can help drive users to their Websites for an initial visit, they don’t

Operations BENCHMARK’99

| MCM staff

Welcome to the 1999 Catalog Age Benchmark Report on Operations, the third in a series of exclusive surveys produced this year by the staff of Catalog

PAGE DENSITY

| MCM staff

Andrea Lawson Gray: If “authority” is integral to your positioning, you’ll need longer copy blocks and larger photographs, perhaps with insets, to show

Pardners in cataloging

| MCM staff

Five years after launching a catalog to support its programs, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) handed over operation of its Texas Parks &

Overseas Success Stories

| Mike McKenna

Among the U.S. catalogs mailing overseas, consumer books command most of the media attention. Yet it’s the business-to-business mailers that have made

Parceling Parcels Strike?

| Paul Miller

The United Parcel Service-Teamsters strike in August 1997 seems to have convinced many catalogers that they shouldn’t put all their eggs in one parcel

Opinion & Response backword

| MCM staff

A casket full of cheer As this month’s Benchmark Report on Merchandising (p.129) shows, catalogers continually strive to come up with product that sets

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| MCM staff

FINGERHUT TO BUY ARIZONA MAIL ORDER, LAUNCHES YOUTH CATALOG Fingerhut, whose $1.5 billion catalog business sells predominately electronics, housewares,

PC Zone gets down to business

| MCM staff

Computer cataloger Multiple Zones International is tapping into the small office/home office (SOHO) market by mailing its first business-to-business catalog.