New dogs learn old tricks

| Ken Magill

One of the most telling examples of how far e-commerce has evolved in the past decade happened this summer at the eTail 2007 conference in Washington.

Desperately seeking CRM

| Debra Ellis

Managing customer relationship management used to be pretty simple. Most shopkeepers knew their patrons personally. They lived in the same community,

THE ERP EDGE

| Curt Barry

Merchants juggling multiple selling channels have enough challenges these days

Making Screen Pops Pop

| Kathryn Jackson

Screen pops are basically any technology, including interactive voice response (IVR), automatic number identification (ANI), or computer telephony integration (CTI), that presents corresponding data

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.

The Software Corner

| Ernie Schell

The director of Ventnor, NJ-based consultancy Marketing Systems Analysis, Ernie Schell takes a quarterly look around the changing software landscape for MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT/OPERATIONS + FULFILLMENT.