Catalogs Blog Archives

Amid the Pandemic, Print Catalogs are Experiencing a Refined Renaissance

There’s no disputing what retailers and catalogers have long known. Catalogs (and their cousins, circulars) yield sales. And in the strange “up is down” year that was 2020, this was truer than ever.

Catalog Mailers Infuriated by Supreme Court’s Wrong Decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair Case

The ruling by the Supreme Court will make doing business for small catalogers and small internet retailers infinitely more complicated and expensive. The blog post below, written by the American Catalog Mailers Association, explains how. CATALOG MAILERS INFURIATED BY...

8 Technology Ideas to Complement Your Catalog

Did you know that printed catalogs help drive online sales? If you weren’t aware of that fact, watch this video that explains how the two work hand-in-hand. 2017 is now upon us and it is the year of the mobile shopper. As we think about how print drives online sales,...

7 Reasons Why Your Catalog Brand Matters

Did you ever stop to think about your company’s brand? What it is and why it matters to your catalog customer? Let’s take a few minutes to explore these concepts. What Is A Brand? A brand is a collection of how a consumer sees, talks about, and experiences...

It’s National Mail Order Catalog Day!

To celebrate, let’s look at a few fun facts about mail order catalogs. Depending on whom you believe the first mail order catalog in the US started either 272 years ago, in 1744, by none other than Benjamin Franklin who sold a collection of scientific books, or, in...

Home Runs from the VT/NH Marketing Conference

I had the good fortune to attend the VT/NH Marketing Group’s Conference at the Woodstock Inn at the end of May. It was a great gathering of direct marketers and the agenda was full of interesting topics and speakers. There was so much information and so many good...