Six Tips for Training Universal Service Agents

| MCM staff

Universal service agents perform a wide variety of tasks in today’s contact center: taking inbound order calls, resolving customer service issues, responding to e-mails, engaging in online chat with Web customers.

Calling for a Contact Center Review

| Liz Kislik

Before the visions of sugarplums have danced completely away for another year, be certain to contemplate the performance of your contact center during the holiday season immediately past.

Keeping Store Staff

| Tim Parry

In an industry infamous for high turnover rates and seasonal staffing, retailers continually face the challenge of hiring and retaining store employees.

The Way of Life in the DC

| MCM staff

LifeWay Christian Resources sells Biblical solutions for life, including books and videos, through print catalogs, the Internet, and more than 130 stores

Long Tails and Passing Shows

| Sherry Chiger

When Ronnie Lane died in 1997, Amazon.com sold only books, Google was still the research project of a pair of Ph.D. candidates, and MySpace wasn’t even

Give Your DC a Look-see

| Jeff Kline

Getting your distribution center ready for the next peak season is in some ways a matter of recognizing that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. To put it another way, now’s the time to learn from your mistakes and begin to formulate a plan for the next holiday season.

The ABC’s of Press Checks

| MCM staff

Anyone who’s been disappointed in how his catalog looks as it rolls out of the printing plant on its way to the mail house knows that certain sinking