USPS: IT COULD BE WORSE

| Paul Miller

Postmaster general counting on catalogs, parcels for growth Already unpopular among mailers thanks to a substantial postage increase looming for January,

CREATIVE

| Moira Cotlier

When it’s time to redesign Reasons for Website makeovers vary – as do the results Given the speed with which many catalogers rushed to put up Websites,

New Web privacy developments

| Moira Cotlier

Online advertisers and marketers may soon have a harder time collecting data about customers, now that Microsoft has created technology that will allow

Now you see it, no you don’t

| MCM staff

We thought we’d seen everything until we saw – or didn’t see – The Invisible Man Brand catalog. The summer 2000 edition of this 12-page digest catalog

Budget busters

| Shayn Ferriolo

This month’s question What was your biggest budget expenditure this year? This month we called on small catalogers to put their mouths where their money

MAILING PLANS

| Paul Miller

Circulation strategies 2001 Postal rate hike not keeping catalogers from mailing more In a snapshot poll that Catalog Age conducted in September on its

Hail to Lillian’s longevity

| MCM staff

Gifts cataloger Lillian Vernon is a leader in the mail order industry, but founder Lillian Vernon Katz is a longtime leader in the business world at large.

Directing reader attention

| MCM staff

What constitutes good eyeflow in a catalog? KATE BOWLES: From a copy perspective, good eyeflow is all about hierarchy – offering texts of various sizes