With NCOA, It’s OK To Procrastinate

| Tim Parry

How close to your mail date do you run your lists against the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address (NCOA) file? You may want to wait even longer. Find out why Jim Leone thinks procrastination is key to a better mailing.

Systematically Decrease Frequency to Weaker Buyers

| Bill Nicolai

Many companies we see treat each mailing as an individual event and they’re not deliberately resting weaker segments between contacts. If you do so, it will decrease marketing costs and increase profits at essentially no cost in sales. I have an effective formula that was originally developed by a long-term client. It is an elegant concept, easy to apply, and effective.

Cruising for co-ops

| Tim Parry

Here’s some advice for anyone looking for a co-op database: Play the field. That is, don’t rely on only one. Try them all, and go with the ones that work.

Hello, again

| Linda Formichelli

Looking for new customers? Forget outbound telemarketing as a means of getting them. Prospecting for new business via phone is a low-percentage activity,

April mailings inch up

| Tim Parry

April isn’t just about rain showers, it also brings spring catalogs. Catalog Tracker started off the second quarter with 370 catalogs received for April,