Financial Reports: United Stationers, Blair Corp.
Office supplier United Stationers ended fiscal 2006 with solid sales and income gains. Apparel and home goods Blair Corp., on the other hand, suffered some steep declines
Channel Integration
Prerequisites for Leveraging Transactional E-mail
While transactional e-mail offers the highest open and clickthrough rates of any type of e-mail, Harte-Hanks in 2005 said that most companies continue to send plain-text e-mail with no branding or dynamic cross-sell offers.
Five Advanced Database Marketing Techniques to Boost Your Business
Direct marketers are facing more challenges than ever before. Increased competition, new media channels, and a pending USPS rate increase are creating an environment in which traditional, tried-and-true list selection techniques that worked well in the past are failing to produce the ROI expected by chief marketing officers today.
Making the Mobile Optimization Call
No one can be sure that Apple’s rollout of the iPhone this June will make 2007 the watershed year for the mobile Internet and thus for mobile search.
Live from eTail: Picking, Choosing, and Prioritizing
Palm Desert, CA
Live from eTail: Integration Is Blockbuster Concept
Palm Desert, CA–You’d have to be living on Mars not to know that Netflix has been gobbling market share of the movie rental business. So what do you do if you’re competitor Blockbuster Online?
Financial Reports: Harry and David, School Specialty, Blue Nile
Cataloger/retailer Harry and David Holdings posts strong quarterly growth, while online jeweler Blue Nile celebrates a successful year. Multititle mailer School Specialty, meanwhile, cuts its quarterly loss
Home Depot Mulls Alternatives for HD Supply
Atlanta-based Home Depot is evaluating strategic alternatives for its HD Supply business, including a possible sale, spin-off, or initial public offering.