Even though we live in a digital era where online marketing has taken the world by storm, offline catalog marketing continues to be the pivotal sales initiative for many businesses around the world. More precisely, carrying an effective marketing strategy with catalogs will bring your business numerous benefits, if done right, that is. After all, not everyone is always browsing… read more →
First there was direct mail. Then the internet came along, which turned direct response marketing upside down. It’s no secret that direct mail and catalog numbers are down – 2016 saw only half as many paper catalogs mailed as in 2007. You may have heard the assertion that digital marketing has eclipsed physical direct mail marketing. While digital marketing has… read more →
Curious about the 2018 outlook for catalogs including catalog page counts, direct mail formats, mailing frequency, and much more? Here is a great report from Daniela Forte at MCM. Hansel Group Marketing is honored to be included in this report! We appreciate the opportunity to share our thoughts on the many important issues facing catalogers today.
The NEMOA fall directXchange catalog conference is coming! Catalog ideas, catalog strategies, circulation planning tactics, catalog case studies, customer prospecting tips, catalog best practices, and more!
How do you summarize catalog marketing data or catalog circulation test results and other direct mail metrics? A catalog marketing analysis one-sheet is great for recapping a specific catalog test result but sometimes you really need a visual of the catalog data to instantly communicate what happened. The spike in catalog sales in the image above tells you everything you… read more →
When Victoria’s Secret suggested this year that it would be pulling the plug on its iconic catalog, some proclaimed the end of an era—not just for VS, which had built its name on years of sexy mailers, but for the catalog industry itself. People shop online now, get all their news digitally, don’t need brick and mortar stores anymore, blah,… read more →
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