Gift-Ties

| MCM staff

For a new twist on an old gift idea, buyers can now surf to Gift-Ties. “We saw a need in the online world for a place where a woman could get a gift for

Head of the class

| MCM staff

The phrase “school supplies” typically conjures up images of chalkboard erasers and colored construction paper-unless you’re Dan Spalding, chairman/CEO

Improving your merge/purge

| Peter Girard

A quick way to sabotage any mailing is to take the merge/purge process for granted, says Joe Balaban, vice president of business development at Farmingdale,

Victoria reveals her secrets

| Paul Miller

Victoria’s Secret catalog president/CEO Cindy Fields has helped to nearly double the company’s catalog sales, from $436 million in 1993 to $760 million

Front-end Web strategies

| Matthew Cohn

Web marketers such as online bookstore Amazon.com are quickly learning that customization can lead to cobranding and Web partnerships. Amazon.com’s innovative

Clean up your act

| Paul Miller

In the business-to-business catalog world, maintaining good list hygiene goes beyond running files against Dun & Bradstreet corporate credit files and

Thehut.com

| MCM staff

General merchandise cataloger Fingerhut Cos. has tapped into the college-age market with a new online and print catalog, Thehut.com. The Website launched

Illume

| MCM staff

With more and more people burning for candles, it’s no wonder that manufacturer/wholesaler/retailer Illume has exceeded response expectations with its

Inspired By…

| MCM staff

Kimber Bishop-Yankee has found a way to “promote the self-esteem of women”-and get paid for it. In November she launched Inspired By…, a Berkley, MI-based