The High Costs of Catalog Retailing

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Retailers have various marketing tools at their disposal to generate sales, with each seeing different results.

The ROI from catalog marketing is low relative to other online and offline media, including e-mail, Internet search and direct-response newspaper ads. The reason is that catalogs are expensive to produce.
 
Catalogs are forecast to generate $7.34 in sales for every dollar spent to make and mail them in 2010, according to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA). This is a slight increase over 2009 and, in turn, 2008.

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