Online catalogers unite

| MCM staff

Too many Internet surveys lack information catalogers need to make Web-related business decisions. “There really is no place we can go to talk about our

More channels, more challenges

| Jack Schmid

For the past 10 years, change has been the norm in cataloging, fueled by seasoned marketers, technological innovations, and increasingly demanding customers.

Life after Brainstorms

| MCM staff

Anatomical Chart Co. president Marshall Cordell, who last September sold his $12 million Brainstorms novelties catalog to multititle mailer 800-Trekker,

Not just for children anymore

| Laura Beaudry

Portland, OR-based children’s apparel mailer Hanna Andersson has gone beyond offering grown-ups a limited selection of what some company executives refer

Backword

| MCM staff

In putting together our Cataloging 2001 theme issue, we hit up many catalogers, consultants, suppliers, and other industry experts for their professional

Growing profits by planning ahead

| Joshua Cho

Business consultants consider three years the standard time frame of a strategic plan, a fundamental tool of entrepreneurs and managers. Yet many catalogers,

A simpler life ahead?

| Sophia Burke

If you don’t understand what consumers want now, wait until 2001, when three seemingly contradictory themes will drive consumer spending: spirituality,

Five hot markets

| Mark Del Franco

With talk of the Internet and the year 2000 computer problem already abounding, some analysts predict that consumers will become overloaded with techno-babble.

Brave new call center

| Joseph E. Smith

As the virtual nerve center of the catalog industry, the call center often functions as a cataloger’s only point of interactive customer contact. As such,