Five Tips for Lowering Shipping Costs

| Colleen Paulson

Ensuring that you do not overpay on your small-package shipments can seem like a monumental task. Carriers such as FedEx, United Parcel Service, and DHL charge significantly more for residential shipments. Using the U.S. Postal Service is often a less expensive option, but delivery can take significantly longer, with fewer tracking options.

Material handling and put-away

| Kate Vitasek

Most distribution professionals understand that it is not enough to know how their company performs year over year; they must also continue to improve

L.A. Confidential: Contact Center Roundtable

| MCM staff

In February, Multichannel Merchant escaped the winter storms of the Northeast and jetted to sunny West Hollywood, CA, to discuss contact center management with a group of multichannel executives. Although the participants represented diverse merchandise categories, the challenges they face running a contact center and improving customer service are universal.

Live from NCOF: Brownie Throwing, “Survivor” Style

| Mark Del Franco

Schaumburg, IL–The way to an audience’s heart is through their stomach. That may be why David Kravetz, cofounder of Phoenix-based marketer Fairytale Brownies, emerged victorious from the popular session “50 Ideas in 50 Minutes: Fulfillment ‘Survivor’ Style,”