Using Business Intelligence Solutions to Hone Strategies

| Curt Barry

Among the many potential benefits of BI: Honing inventory and reducing costly back orders; a better understanding of the costs of core (never-out) products within broad SKU assortments; and a better understanding of merchandising and marketing results by catalog and digital channels.

Ecommerce M&A Action is Vibrant and Focused

| MCM staff

While there are numerous ecommerce transactions in the news, one should not assume that every available company is being gobbled up quickly. To the contrary, most sellers of ecommerce companies are finding it difficult to find interested strategic buyers, but these

What Lies Ahead for AmazonSupply?

| Tim Parry

How will AmazonSupply.com will play out in the business-to-business marketplace? Here’s Monsoon Commerce vice president of marketing Casey Carey’s take.

4 Ways to Personalize Your Customers’ Experiences

| MCM staff

Knowing who your customers are is what changes their experiences from merely adequate to delightful, and can turn a customer into a raving advocate. Here are four things that you should start to do over the next three to six months to improve customer engagement in an incremental fashion while strategizing for the long run.

Experts Say AmazonSupply Will Change B-to-B Ecommerce

| Tim Parry

Amazon.com’s launch of its business-to-business marketplace has the potential to alter the landscape for b-to-b merchants. But while some industry experts see the launch of AmazonSupply.com as an all-out game-changer for b-to-b merchants, others see Amazon’s entry as an added plus for b-to-b sellers.