Topic

Agencies

  • Fur Industry

    WHILE THE FUR industry is changing to appeal to younger customers, another more subtle-and potentially farther reaching-trend is occurring: greater corporate

  • Office Depot Goes to School

    Office Depot is using direct mail, coupons and sweepstakes to target the 6.5 million national parent-teacher association (PTA) members who buy school

  • Isn’t It Time to Swat That Stupid Millennium Bug?

    Which is a more powerful influence on human behavior, marketing or science?Based on the hoopla surrounding the forthcoming millennium, marketing is the

  • PR Opt-Out

    SOME PR PERSON just sent us a questionnaire asking, How do you wish to be contacted by us?Thanks for asking, but we don’t want to be contacted at all.That’s

  • >From Soap to Nuts

    ACTRESS SUSAN BATTEN is best known for her role as Luna Moody Holden on the soap opera “One Life to Live.” But she’s recently taken on a new role-catalog

  • Overlays on Overdrive

    EVEN IN A narrow niche such as diabetic customers, information can provide a competitive edge. Acknowledging this, Franklin Lakes, NJ-based medical supply

  • B-to-B Catalogs’ Online Customer Service Disappoints

    Business-to-business catalogers have failed to integrate their fulfillment and customer service operations with their online marketing efforts.That’s

  • The Issue of Imagery

    IN “On Moral Fiction,” author John Gardner claimed that there were two ways to establish your creativity: You could do something better-give it a twist

  • Not at Your Service

    THIS IS THE fifth year we’ve done an informal accounting of service standards in the consumer catalog industry. In the past, we generally reviewed about