Sales Down 7%

Some catalog advocates will look to Victoria's Secret ... see a 7% drop ... and then raise a champagne glass in celebration (click here).

• "See, that proves the POWER of putting paper in the mailbox."

Think about it for a moment. You pull tens of millions of dollars of catalog marketing out of the ecosystem and sales only drop 7%.

Again ... SALES ONLY DROPPED 7% AFTER REMOVING A FULLY-BAKED CATALOG MARKETING PLAN.

If sales dropped by 7% and the ad-to-sales ratio dropped by 10% ... the business is WILDLY more profitable. Now, I have no idea how much paper was buried in the ad-to-sales ratio, but simple math suggests profit had to increase. A 7% sales drop and a 4% ad-to-sales ratio drop would yield an increase in profit.

Please - measure your organic percentage.

Please learn what your business could look like if you changed marketing strategies.

You run these scenarios, right?