Keep an eye on the experience

| Larry Becker

Smart marketers understand that long-term success depends on treating customers to a great experience, one that’s seamless across channels. What’s the best way to do that? This month we’ll look at why you need to go beyond order conversion when you track success, and how aligning your Web and print channels can improve the experience you offer your own customers.

How to Improve Your Prospecting Efforts

| MCM staff

Getting a handle on important Web metrics can help improve site performance. For this special report from Multichannel Merchant, we spoke with several experts to find out what’s behind the Website numbers so you can improve them–or at least halt a downward slide. Our pros provide insight on which numbers are important, how to track problems, and ways to figure out what’s causing changes. Understanding what’s behind the numbers can ultimately help you reduce abandonment and boost conversion rates.

Integrate Your Marketing Efforts

| MCM staff

Jim Coogan thinks great strides are being made by merchants to become truly multichannel. Still, marketers could be doing a better job using catalogs and Web strategies to drive business.

Epsilon Rebrands With Abacus Moniker

| MCM staff

How big a brand is co-op database Abacus? Big enough that parent firm Epsilon, which acquired Abacus in December, is rebranding most of its data products and services under the Abacus name.

Plan For Reputation Impact in E-mail Segmentation

| Michael Greenberg

Sure, any marketer can send an e-mail to a prospect or a customer. But will it make it into the right inbox? Your inbox delivery is all about reputation these days. Here are a few tips on making sure yours is still golden in the eyes of ISPs.