Taking It Out in the Trades

| MCM staff

Business-to-business merchants traditionally reached out to prospects by advertising in the trade magazines their prospects read. And while this old-school method still works, marketing experts suggest updating a trade ad campaign with online advertising, e-mail newsletters, and value-ad deals ranging from subscriber list rentals to trade-show sponsorships.

Stake Your Claim

| MCM staff

“It’s a hard world to get a break in / All the good things have been taken.” When the Animals sang those lyrics in 1965, they certainly weren’t thinking

List and Data Strategies: Spring-Clean Those House Files!

| Tim Parry

Catalogers could never afford to waste paper and postage mailing to old or incorrect addresses; with the new postal changes, keeping your list as clean as possible is more important than ever. And once the Postal Service’s stricter address standardization rules go into effect in August, unkempt lists will be even more costly.

Of Brownies and “Survivor”

| Mark Del Franco

The way to an audience’s heart is through its stomach. That may be why David Kravetz, cofounder of Phoenix-based Fairytale Brownies, emerged victorious from the popular session