Your seasonal catalog strategy and catalog circulation plans were developed many months ago, and now the Holiday season is rapidly approaching. But you’re in good shape because you’ve already ordered paper and scheduled catalog production time with the printer based on your catalog in-home dates. And now it’s time to execute the final steps of mailing your catalog. Use the following timeline as a guide...
Take a scroll on your Facebook or Instagram feed and you'll be surprised at the number of Shopify stores that tout themselves as e-commerce retailers. Selling everything from drop-shipped T-shirts sourced on AliBaba, to hats, pop-cultural tchotchkes and even sweaters with a pouch to hold your cat, the age of digital has given way to the age of e-commerce. So maybe you're already well-versed in the world...
Marketing without a well-thought-out strategy, be it catalog marketing or otherwise, is just like building a house without a blueprint. It doesn't necessarily mean that you will never get there, but there will be a lot of wasted time and resources before you do. Equally as important, is for you to remember that no strategy is fool proof, regardless of how much thought and analysis was put...
We need to talk about the "D" word. Digital? Data-Driven? How about, "all of the above", plus one you may not have expected: Direct mail. If you've been drinking the "Kool-Aid" served up by industry bigwigs, you might think that direct mail is not only a relic of yesteryear, it's actually a casualty of digital. But that's where you'd be wrong. Direct mail is far...
Developed some decades ago, the RFM Analysis is a great marketing model used to segment a customer list based on their behavior. This method has proven itself time and time again, by helping direct and online marketers minimize their costs while, at the same time, maximizing their returns. The RFM Analysis is based on the Pareto principle, or the 80/20 rule, which states that 80%...
Merge/purges are an important, yet frequently overlooked, strategic component of catalog marketing. Merge reports can be confusing and many catalogers don’t understand how valuable these reports are. Ask your merge/purge provider to explain their report to you and then make sure you follow these tips to fine-tune your catalog marketing strategy List priorities -- it’s very important to set priorities for all the lists going...
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