SkyRoll Scores with Shipwire Fulfillment

| Patrick Barnard

Don Chernoff established his own e-commerce business, SkyRoll, in 2001. The business sells a special type of garment bag that rolls your clothes around a tube, keeping them flat and wrinkle-free while making them easier to transport.

HSN Laying Off 3% of Staff

| MCM staff

TV shopping/catalog merchant HSN said last Friday it will lay off 110 employees at HSN, most from around its St. Petersburg, FL headquarters.

Hanna Andersson, Gerber Childrenswear Sold

| Jim Tierney

Private equity firm Sun Capital Partners announced Nov. 25 that one of its affiliates, Childrenswear LLC, acquired children’s clothing cataloger/retailer Hanna Andersson Corp. and Gerber Childrenswear for $179 million.

Five SEM Tips To Increase Holiday Traffic

| Jason Prescott

Want to get more prospects to your site to increase holiday traffic and seasonal sales? Here are five easy tips to tune up search marketing activities, Website visibility and seasonal e-mailings for better returns on your time and marketing investment

Talbots to Sell J.Jill

| Jim Tierney

Just Two and a Half Years after buying the women’s apparel cataloger/retailer, Talbots announced last month it is putting J. Jill up for sale. The retailer

What matters most, now

| Melissa Dowling

With the price of postage, paper and raw goods, plus the recessionary economy, multichannel merchants should be very worried about pricing. They are:

Entry pages with SEO appeal

| Larry Becker

When a client asks me about how to optimize his or her site, I often reply that it’s a lot like eating an elephant: Tear off one bite a time. For most

Gimme a V!

| Andrea Syverson

As a merchant, you know it can be easy to slip into neutral and follow last year’s patterns and processes of product creation, trade show travel, and