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Recent Marketing Articles & Tips
Here's where you can access recent articles we've written about catalog and internet marketing. From time to time, we'll include links to other information of interest to the direct marketing community.





Alan Rimm-Kaufman Video
For a recent DMA seminar, Mark interviewed Dr. Alan Rimm-Kaufman, a leading expert on search engine marketing and founder of search agency
RKG . The specific subject of this video is Paid Search (PPC) on Google, Yahoo and MSN:

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Part 1 of the interview (8 min)
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Part 2 of the interview (6 min)


Into the Mix: Determining the Role Catalogues Should Play in Your Overall Contact Strategy; April 2008 article by Mark Lee in Catalogue & e-Business (U.K. publication, electronic link not available).

Contact Strategy: Update, Upgrade, Convert
Article by Mark Lee & Shari Altman in Catalog Success magazine, February, 2008.

December, 2007: Premier trade journal Internet Retailer has again sought Mark's opinions on several major e-commerce sites for its "Hot 100" feature.  Here are some examples.

Before Catalogs, Try Online
Mark was interviewed and quoted by Karen Klein for the Small Biz section of BusinessWeek on the subject of starting a catalog company, September 28, 2007

Setting S&H Fees
Mark Lee interviewed on setting catalog shipping & handling rates, in Multichannel Merchant (see p. 2 of online version), August, 2007

Prospecting: What Works Today (and What Doesn't)
Article by Mark Lee and with Shari Altman in Catalog Success  Magazine, August, 2007
[note: the printed version has an editing error -- it erroneously states that Figi's has over 20 square feet of retail space per capita and mails 10 - 20 catalogs per week; that's meant to describe the entire U.S.]

Three Ways to Save on Catalog Printing
in Mark Lee's Parts Marketing blog, July 1, 2007

Don't Dump Your Catalog Copy Into Your Website
in Mark Lee's Parts Marketing blog, June 5, 2007

It’s Final: No Reprieve on Postal Rate Hike
Mark Lee quoted in Multichannel Merchant , June 20, 2007

How To Survive the 2007 Postage Increases: Nine Tips for Smaller Catalogers

Article by Mark Lee, March, 2007

Web Shopping: Do You Really Know What Ticks People Off ?
Article by Mark Lee published in Multichannel Merchant , January 23, 2007


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