Market Snapshot: It’s Not Raining Menswear Buyers
When Market Snapshot focused on the men’s apparel catalog market in 2005 and 2006, appeared in the headline each time. If we weren’t so reluctant to repeat
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Revisiting Direct-to-Door Catalog Delivery
The May 14 postal rate hike may inspire some catalogers to consider alternate delivery options. At least that’s what one direct-to-door delivery service provider is hoping.
Catalog Tracker: Volume Declines Continue
Forty percent of catalogers are considering cutting their overall circulation in response to last month’s postal rate hikes, according to an exclusive Multichannel Merchant survey
Those Images May Get Your E-mailed Blocked
Contrary to what many marketers believe, spammy-looking content is generally not the reason Internet service providers block incoming e-mail, according to a study from Lyris Technologies.
Google’s New Search: Universal, and Far from Remote
(Searchline) Google’s made a major change in the way it displays its general search results. And while the impact may at first be small, the significance of that change will grow over time and eventually ripple through the very concept of optimizing Web pages for search.
Equity Firm to Buy CDW
CDW Corp. announced on May 30 that it has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners for approximately $7.3 billion.
Financial Reports: Williams-Sonoma, Coldwater Creek
Williams-Sonoma Earnings Down 21% Although first-quarter revenue rose nearly 3% at San Francisco-based Williams-Sonoma, net earnings fell 21%. For the 13 weeks ended April 29, the home decor and kitchenware merchant netted $18.2 million on sales of …
Top Five CRM Deployment Mistakes
As companies become more sophisticated about customer relationship management, we
Co-op Databases Step Up Modeling
The co-operative databases have sharpened up their modeling with a new generation of models for catalogers. New modeling initiatives from the co-ops are capable of producing better response and bigger list universes for catalogers.