Image Alt Text Optimization for SEO Success

Image Alt Text Optimization for SEO Success

When it comes to on-page optimization, one of the most often overlooked tasks is image alt text optimization. There are several reasons for this. For instance, when you are looking at a page, you can’t see the image alt text. In some cases, the existing image alt text...
The Disappearing Act of Organic Results

The Disappearing Act of Organic Results

Remember back in the day when you would Google something resulting in a few text ads at the top followed by 8 – 10 organic listings in blue below? The whole page was awash in the text; nary a picture, icon, or graphic apart from the Google logo existed. It was a...
How To Determine Proper Page Count

How To Determine Proper Page Count

Good circulation planning and merchandising are the keys to success for a mail order catalog company. Knowing how many catalogs to circulate can be determined by calculating a catalog breakeven point. But, determining the number of pages a catalog should include can...
How to Alter Your Marketing Strategy

How to Alter Your Marketing Strategy

How do you know when it is time to alter your Marketing Strategy? What’s more, how do you go about doing so? Altering your strategy is one of the most difficult and risky things you can do. Some would argue that a change in strategy should be gradual and be...
How Important is the Average Order Size?

How Important is the Average Order Size?

Catalog executives always seem to have a great deal of interest in their average order size.  They become concerned when they see it decrease. What’s more, catalogers often spend time trying to artificially increase the average order size without really understanding...
How Do Your Operational Costs and Metrics Measure Up?

How Do Your Operational Costs and Metrics Measure Up?

Since 1996, F. Curtis Barry & Company has been benchmarking with hundreds of multichannel companies. FCBCO offers a wide range of services to multichannel retailers to reduce costs, increase productivity improve customer. Our services in operations are layout and...