Response Analysis Made Simple

| Bill Singleton

The pressures of promoting and fulfilling peak-season sales can overwhelm the subtleties of tracking exactly where those sales are coming from. If you have a real-time tracking system or already analyzed your holiday results, you should have a good idea. If you don’t and you didn’t, now is the time to set up your analysis to inform you of what happened and to prepare you for when you’re in the thick of the holidays again.

Holiday 2007 Countdown

| MCM staff

No, we’re not suggesting that you break out the Christmas decorations and deck the halls just yet. But if the fourth quarter is your make-or-break season,

Quick Tip: Reusing Co-op Names

| Anna-Lisa Ulbrich

If you have specific co-op database models that consistently perform well above your prospecting breakeven threshold, consider reusing unique names from those models in your next drop if your circulation plan calls for additional prospects.

Abacus Indicator:

| MCM staff

According to the Abacus 2006 B-to-B Industry Insights Report, business-to-business marketers experienced a 9% gain in revenue over the past 24 months, spurred by a 2% increase in buyers with 13% more transactions.