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  • How to Measure Your Catalog Marketing Results

    Remember the “good old days,” when figuring out a catalog’s ROI simply meant looking at the sales resulting from the actual paper catalogs you mailed? In 2009, papa’s got a brand new bag of metrics to contend with

  • The Name Game

    List prices have gone down significantly over the past year, but they seem to have stabilized over the last quarter, according to Jay Schwedelson, corporate

  • Going Postal

    The fate of the U.S. Postal Service looks grimmer and grimmer with each passing day, adding to marketers’ uncertainties about using the mails as a way

  • Slammin’ Breakfast

    On the menu of restaurant promotions, is a hot item these days; chains of all types are whipping up giveaways to struggle against dwindling traffic. But

  • 360 View

    CHIEF MARKETER: In school, you majored in psychology. What was the attraction to advertising? There’s obviously a natural link. LAZARUS: I was at Smith

  • Ways to Boost Loyalty Program Participation

    Getting people to sign up for loyalty programs is no problem. But getting them to actually use the programs is another story

  • Lists: Think Long Term for the Holidays

    MANY DIRECT MARKETERS count on fourth-quarter sales to put them in the black, and experts agree that at least 40% of their success depends on the mailing

  • Marketers Mad About the Show

    Advertising is about one thing: happiness, says a character in Mad Men. Advertisers themselves seem very, very happy that the AMC show is a hit and went

  • ABERCROMBIE’S ARROGANCE ISN’T WORKING

    Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has gone out of style. No matter how much it believed kids would never, ever abandon its stores filled with sexy clothes

  • HSN’s Mobile Maneuver

    Home Shopping Network is best known for its cable presence and for selling online through HSN.com, which accounts for 30% of its revenue. But in August the direct retailer opened a third-screen sales front