Anything That Needs a Roof
WAREHOUSE FOR LEASE. Offers cooking, laundry, and babysitting services. No, that ad hasn’t run (yet), but the day when it might may not be too far off.
Marketing
Live from Washington DM Days: PR for Direct Marketers
(Direct Newsline) It was a tough way to start the morning. How would you like to walk into a session and hear a speaker calling you “a piranha that will
Live from Net.marketing: Best Practices for Online Merchandising
(Direct Newsline) The way a marketer approaches merchandising on their site can make or break the customer experience, said Donna Lucolano, president
An Easy Call to Make
Doing business overseas may not seem like an attractive proposition right now, but companies have no qualms about using offshore call centers, according
A Comeback for Chiasso
Three months after Chicago-based Chiasso filed for bankruptcy protection, the gifts and home goods cataloger/retailer was acquired by CCS Capital, a Northfield,
Operations and Management: Systems Then and Now
The catalog management software (CMS) systems on the market in the early 1980s were outgrowths of systems that catalogers had written inhouse or contracted
Catalog Copy: Waking Up to the New World of Catalogs
Montgomery Ward? Who’s he? That was a question asked at a catalog seminar a few months ago. The venerable icons of the past, such as Montgomery Ward,
Terno: Still Getting It Done
TERNOVELOCITY IS A SYSTEM to reckon with. This is a system that benefits greatly from the breadth and depth of its experience in the direct commerce field.
Sneaker Solution
IN THE FIERCELY COMPETITIVE, uncertain world of Internet liquidation, Overstock.com uses what COO James Hyde calls the sneaker solution to keep the warehouse
DIRECT-TO-CUSTOMER FULFILLMENT SOFTWARE 2003 REVIEW
The direct-to-customer software marketplace is a mature industry whose current trends will mark its direction for the next few years. Though sales of