Benchmarking Contact Center Best Practices for Cross-Selling & Up-Selling

| Jason Lancaster

Taking advantage of cross-selling and up-selling can maximize company profits and significantly enhance the overall customer experience by adding value to customers during inbound interactions and limiting the number of outbound calls potential and existing customer receive. Here’s four steps for effectively incorporating cross-selling and up-selling into your contact center

Newegg Names Kunal Thakkar VP-operations

| MCM staff

Direct electronics merchant Newegg has named Kunal Thakkar vice president of operations. Thakkar will be responsible for overseeing all of Newegg’s logistics and transportation functions, including managing the company’s warehouse operations and transportation service providers.

4 Reasons to Outsource Fulfillment

| Matt Konkle

When the capacity of your operations is compromising the health of your business and the achievement of your goals, merchants should consider solutions that can put them back in control. For many fast-growing companies, that solution is outsourced order fulfillment. Here are four reasons why.

Amazon Acquires Kiva Systems

| Jim Tierney

Online behemoth Amazon acquired Kiva Systems for $775 million in cash — a deal which could see robotic technology playing a larger role in the company