ORDERS GLOSSARY

| MCM staff

Abandoned call: Call in which a customer hangs up before reaching a call center staffer. ACS: Automatic call sequencer, a less sophisticated version of automated call distribution (see below), without the flexibility and the ability to track call …

Our brillliant ideas…

| MCM staff

If we had a nickel for every time a Catalog Age staffer spouted off an idea for a new catalog, we’d have practically enough money to buy a new coffee

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

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

Outbound explosion

| Paul Miller

Many consumers don’t appreciate phone calls from the likes of aluminum siding marketers or survey groups during dinner. Business-to-business catalog buyers,