Truly building good will

| MCM staff

Harrison, NY-based cooperative database firm I-Behavior has a constructive theme for a gathering during the 2005 Annual Catalog Conference (May 23-25

Blog-rolling

| MCM staff

Pundits of the Chicken Little school are warning that blogs will kill advertising and PR as we know it. With just a few keystrokes, an anonymous blogger

Unprecedented turnover ahead?

| Sherry Chiger

The days of telling workers they should consider themselves lucky to have a job are just about over, according to futurist Roger Herman, CEO of The Herman

Movers & shakers

| MCM staff

Delray Beach, FL-based office supplies marketer Office Depot promoted Charles Brown from chief financial officer to president, international. Monica Luechtefeld

New lists

| MCM staff

Building to Last Compiled from mail order buyer files, transactional information, and surveys, and overlaid with demographic data, this file consists

Sales gains come at a cost

| Mark Del Franco

The fourth quarter has always been considered the make-or-break quarter for catalogers. Happily, 77% of the publicly traded consumer merchants tracked

New management

| MCM staff

Taylor Gifts/Get Organized Masterfile During the past 12 months more than 354,000 consumers have purchased gifts, and home products from the Taylor Gifts

Cooling off in February

| Sherry Chiger

What goes up must come down. While year-over-year consumer catalog volume rose more than 19% in January, according to Catalog Tracker, February’s year-over-year