Live From Internet Retailer: Lessons Learned From Holiday 2008

| Melissa Dowling

What did online industry watchers learn from this past holiday season, aside from the fact that sales for many were lagging? Plenty. In her session at Internet Retailer’s Web Design conference on Jan. 21, Lauren Freedman detailed several e-commerce customer service initiatives her consulting firm, The E-tailing Group, is seeing more of.

Retail Pro, Page-Digital File for Bankruptcy

| Paul Sobota

Retail merchandise management systems vendor Retail Pro (formerly Island Pacific) and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Page Digital, IP Retail Technologies International and Sabica Ventures, entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Jan. 10.

Holiday 2008: The Winners

| MCM staff

Yes, there were actually a few multichannel merchants that did well this holiday season, despite the dismal economy. We caught up with a few of them to see how they did it.

ACMA Members Say, Send It in a Letter

| Tim Parry

Members of the American Catalog Mailers Association have launched a letter-writing campaign that they hope will convince the U.S. Postal Service to roll back catalog postage to its pre-2007 rates. Read on, and download your own letter template.