The If and Then of Automated E-Mail

| Shari Altman

If your customer does this, then you send them that. It’s a simple concept that can be applied quite effectively to your triggered e-mail strategy. Click here for Shari Altman’s thoughts on how to make it work for you.

A surprising lift in January

| Tim Parry

Consumers may be buying less in the tight economy, but you can’t say catalogers weren’t trying. Catalog Tracker received 353 catalogs in January, up 11% from the 317 delivered to its mailbox in the same month of 2007.

LISTINGS

| MCM staff

New lists Celebrate Express Files The party retailer has released a corporate master file of 843,031 12-month buyers who bought party supplies and costumes.

Mail or Mulch

| Tim Parry

Postmaster General John Potter has challenged customers to reduce undeliverable-as-addressed mail by 50% by 2010. Are you up to the test?

Taking to the great outdoors

| Tim Parry

It appears more consumers are embracing outdoor activity. Or at least they’re dressing the part. In the fourth quarter of 2007, there were 10.6 million