Q&As

The innovative minds at Canada Post, the Canadian mail system, had a good idea: Take a dozen popular catalogers and feature their wares in a single mailer, which would be sent to homes across the Great White North in time for the holidays.

Frigo cheese is setting up a play date between kids and Mario.

The Oxygen Network is showing off its “bad” side via a new marketing campaign that uses social networking to plug its latest reality show The Bad Girls Club.

Everyone is talking about customer control, but why does it suddenly seem as if it is an emerging trend whose thirst needs to be quenched immediately?

You don’t leave your front door or your car unlocked, do you? Of course not, because you want to protect your valuable assets. For marketers, customer data are among their most valuable assets.

(Direct) If there’s one consistent aspect of direct mail strategy you can count on, it’s this: Everything changes. As consumer and donor tastes shift — and they do, regularly — the tactics used to communicate with them should too.

J. C. Penney Co. Inc. posted sales of $1.91 billion for November, up slightly from $1.86 billion in the prior-year period.

A FEDERAL JUDGE IN Illinois recently denied anti-spam blacklisting group The Spamhaus Project’s motions to dismiss an $11.7 million default judgment against

Don’t get so smug the next time you have a good promotional idea. Chances are consumers won’t get it. A new survey by research firm IMI International

Christmas is back. Not that it ever went anywhere, but retailers are using the name in their marketing after years of preferring the more generic What