Companies Banning Social Media At Work

| Tim Parry

According to a survey conducted by information technology firm Robert Half Technology, 54% of businesses have completely prohibited social networking sites in the workplace.

How to Build Your Online Community

| Tim Parry

If you have a Twitter feed and a Facebook page, it doesn’t mean you’ve built an online community, said the social media experts who spoke Oct. 7 at a Hudson Valley Direct Marketing Association luncheon at Fairview Country Club.

Bracing for the critics

| MCM staff

ORTHO TECHNOLOGY While wearing braces is a drag for most adolescents, selling orthodontia products to dental professionals via catalog is fraught with

Is outsourcing an option for you?

| Curt Barry

As companies desperately seek ways to reduce fulfillment costs, the outsourcing option crops up frequently these days. Is outsourcing any or all of your

Out of the box experiences

| Lois Brayfield

How do you survive these extraordinary times? You have to think in extraordinary terms and escape the shackles of the ordinary, everyday promises of quality,

Unsung merchants

| MCM staff

WHEN I READ THAT a retail icon named Nancy Talbot recently died at 89, I figured she must have had something to do with the women’s apparel cataloger/retailer

Tales from the front

| MCM staff

PLEASE SOBER UP BEFORE SIGNING HERE A Multichannel Merchant staffer recently placed an order with wine seller Geerlings & Wade. About three business days