The worst thing about the catalog business is the cost of printing and mailing all those catalogs.<\/p>\n
So you’d think that catalog companies would drive all their sales online, and cut back on or eliminate print catalogs altogether.<\/p>\n
Not happening.<\/p>\n
According to the Associated Press (11\/26\/06), L.L. Bean expects to mail a staggering quarter of a billion catalogs this year — up 50 million from the 200 million they mailed 2 years ago.<\/p>\n
Reason: “It is the best way for us to get lasting impressions in front of our customers,” says Bean spokesman Rich Donaldson.<\/p>\n
“Most customers hang onto catalogs for weeks, using them for reference, making them far more valuable than Web-based marketing,” concludes the AP report.<\/p>\n
So are print catalogs here to stay?<\/p>\n
Or is this only a temporary reprieve, until the generation being born today — who are growing up with computers and the Internet, not print, as their primary information source — comes of age?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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