Online Buying Slowed in January

| MCM staff

Reston, VA–PC Data’s Report on the top 20 Internet merchants shows that online buying activity was sluggish in January. The company’s ranking places

Financial Reports

| MCM staff

Annual Sales, Income Up and Up for Blair Warren, PA-Multititle mailer Blair Corp. (Nasdaq BL) posted a 10% jump in annual sales and a 38% leap in annual

I.Bits: SURVEY SEZ

| MCM staff

Of more than 3,000 online shoppers surveyed in December by Internet technology provider E-centives, 40% said “saving money on the Internet is a priority

Ask the Experts

| Sandra Gassmann

This month’s expert, Sage Marketing’s Sandra Gassmann, answers the question ‘Should I participate in an online comparison shopping guide?’

Burpee Delivers on Service

| MCM staff

Venerable seed and plants cataloger Burpee certainly knows its target audience – although it should, after 125 years in the business.While perusing Burpee’s

I. Bits: FOOFOO, WE HARDLY KNEW YE

| MCM staff

As this is the first issue of the new year, we decided to honor those companies featured in I.Merchant articles last year that did not survive long enough

Ask the Experts

| Sandra Gassmann

This month’s expert, Sage Marketing’s Sandra Gassmann, answers the question ‘Should I participate in an online comparison shopping guide?’

Felix Basks in Lighthouse Limelight

| MCM staff

If you happened to be doing your holiday shopping in New York this past December, yes, that was actor Tony Randall in Lighthouse International’s midtown

What Do You Know?

| Sherry Chiger

In a fiction writing workshop I used to attend, a middle-class, middle-age suburban woman once read aloud from a story she’d written about a college student

Hooked on the Catalog Habit

| MCM staff

Nearly 100 years ago, many growing communities in the U.S. viewed the mail order catalog as a villain stealing money from local businesses. Some – including