Two-Step Your Way into Canada

| Mark Del Franco

While U.S. mailboxes are chockfull of catalogs, such is not the case up north. Canada has just 35 titles that mail more than 5,000 catalogs a year, according to Patrick Bartlett, president of CanadaPost/Borderfree.

ACC PREVIEW: It’s Show Time!

| MCM staff

It’s hard to believe we’ve been presenting the Annual Catalog Conference for 22 years, but 2005 promises to be our best show yet. For one, we have two

Consider the source

| Mark Del Franco

When a computer reseller wanted to increase catalog circulation last year, the company’s analysis group director told the circulation analyst to include

Calculating incremental response

| Jim Wheaton

When measuring the effectiveness of a promotion, it’s not enough to know the overall response and revenue. What you really need to measure is the incremental

Postal reform gets rolling

| MCM staff

In addition to the lower-than-expected proposed rate increase and the fact that it may not happen at all there’s more cause for optimism: The House Government

Database bits and bytes

| Sherry Chiger

The theme of this year’s DMA World Seattle, held April 6, was Relevance and Results. Not surprisingly, database marketing played a significant role in