What’s Working In: Training

| MCM staff

The following training tips were gathered from a roundtable discussion of contact center personnel during the recent National Conference on Operations & Fulfillment (NCOF), cosponsored by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT/OPERATIONS + FULFILLMENT.

Salary Survey

| MCM staff

New York-based TeleManagement Search is out with its 2006 contact center, telesales, and customer service national salary guide.

Home Depot to Buy Home Decorators Collection

| MCM staff

Further proof that Home Depot wants to be a major player in the direct-to-consumer home decor market: On April 25 the Atlanta-based retail giant announced a definitive agreement to buy St. Louis-based home furnishings cataloger/retailer Home Decorators Collection

Beyond Loyalty Programs

| MCM staff

In the race to gain customer retention, customer loyalty, and market share, many online merchants leap to the conclusion that they need a formal loyalty program. Perhaps the competition has one, or maybe they simply perceive it as the latest and greatest trend in generating repeat business.

Marketing to the Abandoned Cart

| MCM staff

Consumers are changing how they shop online and this is leading to higher rates of cart abandonment throughout the e-commerce industry. Fortunately there are some highly effective techniques you can use to recover a large part of these

Home Decorators Conducting “Blind” Testing

| John Fischer

St. Louis-based Knights Direct has been testing custom window treatments within its Home Decorators Collection catalog since the latter part of 2005. Now the company has gone a step further: This month it introduced a 32-page HDC Blinds catalog.