About

With the strapline “Every channel, every angle”, Direct Commerce is the leading publication for offline and online cataloguers and multichannel sellers in the UK. Founded in 1995 as Catalogue & Mail Order Business, Direct Commerce has evolved to include a website, www.directcommerce.biz, the Cross-Atlantic Insight, DC Careers, DC's TV Shopping Week, and Editor's Choice enewsletters offering tactical advice, industry research, and top news.

Published 12 times a year, Direct Commerce provides readers with the latest sector news, actionable how-to articles and advice, and opinions and viewpoints from thought leaders and industry experts. Regular features include

• Strictly business: Focusing on the issues unique to marketers catering to business buyers.
• CatEx DCA update: A forum for members of the CatEx Direct Commerce Association, a trade association of remote-shopping professionals. For more on CatEx, visit www.CatExDCA.org.uk.
• Catalogue review/website review: A prominent creative expert critiques the effectiveness of a website or a print catalogue.
• Direct operations: Advice to help direct sellers get their back-office operations working as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• Lists and data: Exploring how best to win new customers and retain existing ones using rental lists, transaction data, and other tools.
• Print production: Tips and advice on catalogue printing, creative techniques and more, in support of our ongoing Because Print Works campaign.
  
• Online marketing: The latest information on ecommerce best practice.
• Movers and shakers: Keeping up-to-date with people in the industry.
• Small-business spotlight: Homing in on the needs of new and developing companies.
• S Cuttlebutt: A tongue-in-cheek look at the latest industry gossip.