FREEZE FRAME

| Rama Ramaswami

Nothing much may be a perfectly fine answer to give to an old friend who calls to ask whassup. But if that’s how you describe what’s going on in your

For Whom the Bell Rings

| Curt Barry

Prices for scheduling software start as low as $30,000 Scheduling staff for your customer contact center is much more than simply plugging your customer

talking heads

| MCM staff

The emperor has no clothes! The is out in the open. The Internet is at a crossroads. It is readily apparent that there is very little future for e-commerce

Reinvent the Wheel

| Linda Formichelli

Merchants have been using customer relationship management since they first set up shop in clean, well-lit caves thousands of years ago. They knew, for

Sex, Lies, and Wrestling Matches

| MCM staff

Those of you who frequent eBay know that the relics of dead dot-coms have become hot sellers. Dealers pay tidy sums for defunct stock certificates, signs,

A Death in the Family

| Sherry Chiger

Reporters are often compared with vultures, circling near-corpses and waiting for them to die. And I did feel somewhat like a bird of prey while following

Siren Song

| D. Douglas Graham

In May of this year, The New York Times Magazine ran an article about the ruins of the New Economy. Titled The Day After, the story mourned the demise

At Your Service

| Liz Kislik

Organize your menus and prompts to be mutually exclusive Recently, I’ve been asked a half dozen or so questions repeatedly in seminars, phone calls, and