Profit From Your DMA Panders

| Jim Coogan

When conducting a merge/purge, names will hit against the Direct Marketing Association pander file, which consists of those people who write the DMA indicating they do not want unsolicited mail. Does that mean you should avoid mailing to all of these names?

Postal Reform Gets Down to the Wire

| MCM staff

After 11 years and enough drama, close calls, and finger-pointing to fuel a season’s worth of episodes of the late “West Wing,” Congress passed a sweeping postal reform bill overnight Dec. 9.

Leverage Your Bottom Line With Buyer Remails

| Jim Coogan

What can a high-profit buyer remail do to boost your bottom line? Compare a circulation plan before and after adding a buyer remail. When you take the financials all the way down to the bottom line, you can see the dramatic change in profitability you can achieve.

Six Principles of Deliberate Marketing

| Suaad Sait

Business-to-business marketing has become infinitely more complicated and less predictable in recent years. The intense cost-cutting measures and greater scrutiny that followed the 9/11 market setbacks mean companies of all sizes no longer purchase like they once did.

Waiting with an open mailbox

| Sherry Chiger

Surveys and studies consistently show that print catalogs are one of the most effective ways of driving Web sales. But judging from the Catalog Tracker

Study: E-mail Addresses Need Validation

| MCM staff

The increased use of e-mail communications as a channel serving information as well as for increasing sales means that capturing valid, deliverable e-mail addresses early in the relationship is critical for most online businesses.