The State of Catalog Marketing: What’s Working in 2025
In an age dominated by digital media, printed catalogs have surprisingly held their ground and even gained new relevance in 2025. Major brands are returning to physical catalogs to cut through digital noise. For example, J. Crew reintroduced its iconic print catalog and Amazon launched a toy catalog to give consumers a tactile browsing experience […]
Alternative Revenue Streams for Your Magazine
It’s no secret that advertising has been a volatile revenue stream for media organizations of all kinds since the pandemic’s outset. This presented a significant challenge for many publications, especially those that rely on ad revenue from the hospitality, tourism and the other industries deeply impacted by the pandemic. Given this turbulence, many publications pivoted […]
Text Marketing: Not Just for Flash Sales
If you own a cell phone, you’ve almost certainly received marketing text messages. Also known as SMS marketing, marketing text messages often advertise a sale or limited-time offer for consumer products. Some of them read as spam messages — and some actually are. Unlike marketing emails — many of which often are never opened, let […]
A Rosy Outlook for Books
Books have seen steady sales throughout the pandemic — and not just for use in Zoom backgrounds. The pandemic has presented challenges for all industries to varying degrees. But book publishing, an industry that faced challenges in the years before COVID-19, had a banner year from a sales standpoint. According to the New York Post, […]
Would You Benefit from a Branded Digital Storefront?
You want your publication to go to people who will read it. Companies that are demand-based have a leg up on less sophisticated competitors. That goes for automating print production and fulfillment as well. Demand-driven programs not only make you more customer responsive, but also reduce costs. And one of the most effective automation tools […]
Magazine Publishers Win When Print, Mobile Website and Mobile App Coexist
In 2012, Jason Pontin wrote at MIT’s technologyreview.com that many magazine publishers believed employing a mobile app would save their product. They could reverse the devastating financial effects of free digital access. Unlike digital replicas on a website, magazines would “run on ‘native’ applications [those developed by the publisher] on mobile operating systems like Apple’s […]
Our Work with The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
Our latest case study dives into the solutions we provide The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, including print, app creation, eCommerce and fulfillment. Walsworth spoke with AAPD Senior Publication Director Cindy Hansen about how Walsworth is able to meet the specific needs of her not-for-profit professional association. About the AAPD The AAPD supplies content to […]
Announcing Engage – A Mobile App for Associations
How is your association utilizing mobile devices to engage your members? If your organization is like many we’ve spoken with, chances are good that you aren’t yet taking full advantage of what mobile can accomplish. Engage, Walsworth’s newest app platform, can help. Powered by a platform built with associations in mind, Walsworth’s Engage apps are […]
Raking in Revenue through eCommerce
Has your publication considered eCommerce as a potential revenue source? Meg Estevez, corporate director of audience development at NewBay Media, made a case for it at Niche Media’s 2017 Super Niche conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. In her presentation titled Build It and They Will Shop! How to Develop Your Brand’s Online Store, she outlined […]
10 eCommerce Best Practices That Will Boost Your Sales
Are your online sales increasing your bottom line? Are you using eCommerce solutions that position your company as a robust marketplace where shoppers can get merchandise that fills a need, solves a problem or enhances their lives? We’ve gathered some eCommerce best practices to pass along to you: Provide Answers Via Your Blog Use your […]
