Back in 1977 I was doing a lot of running, and had already started a mail order business, selling office supplies by mail order catalog.

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She is expanding her business with a gift basket of cake and flowers within New York City, and beyond the city with a mail-order catalog offering dozens of rich desserts.

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He is creating satellite companies--a fashion design house, a cable TV network for high schools, restaurants and bars, a mail-order catalog for youth-focused merchandise--which he hopes to build and then sell.

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For example, say you have an employee e-commerce site with several web pages for someone to browse a catalog and then order a new chair for their office (as is the case in more and more integrated procurement and supply chain partnerships these days).

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They had the infrastructure in place to display the catalog and take the order.

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Now one company is bringing its entire store catalog onto the social network in order to increase its sales.

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So today it announced that to augment those slim sales, Kozmo will begin duplicating its online offerings in a print catalog and publicize a toll-free number, in order to attract customers who are less Internet-savvy.

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In 1951, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad branched out beyond the basic business of mail-order Christmas tree decorations, ballpoint pens and bird seeds and added a catalog-only furniture business.

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Netflix users will now be able to browse the entire catalog instead of simply loading their queue, and Microsoft has also gotten its Party Watch system in order, so you'll be able to heckle videos with your online friends.

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