Paper weight: How low can you go?

| MCM staff

In the ongoing battle to reduce catalog production costs, many mailers look at reducing the basis weight of their paper. This can be a good move, since

Work with and around voicemail

| Terry Flynn

We now have e-mail, text chat, Twitter, mail and more. So why does anyone still bother to sell over the phone? The secret of those marketers who use telemarketing

Dust off the creative basics

| MCM staff

ALLERGYBUYERSCLUB.COM Spring is finally here, and for many people that means allergies are in full bloom. That’s bad news for the sufferers, good news

What Recession?

| MCM staff

If you’re tired of hearing about how horrible the economy is and how far sales have fallen, talk to some gardening catalogers. Most of them aren’t complaining