Have It Your Way

| David Pluviose

Instead of having to fumble through layers of pre-designed computer interfaces, you can now customize your warehouse inventory control interface to give

Airplane!

| Rama Ramaswami

My 12-year-old son jokes that if you want to punish people, you should hand them over to customer service. He doesn’t specify airline customer service,

Dot.con

| Rama Ramaswami

Long, long ago, there lived a poor farmer whose sole desire in life was to own a cow. After scrimping for many years, he saved up enough money to purchase

Can This Relationship Be Saved?

| Rama Ramaswami

We admit it: We used those shockingly red lips on our cover to grab your attention. But what’s in our special section on contact centers is attention-grabbing as well.

Our First Time

| MCM staff

SHERRY CHIGER, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR The name of the catalog escapes me it was 20 years ago, after all, back when I was in college but I’d mailed away for

Ahead of the Game

| Barbara Arnn

As stories and jokes about failed dot-coms proliferate, it begins to seem that they are all here today, gone tomorrow. But e-commerce and multi-channel

KEVIN WOOLCOTT

| Rama Ramaswami

How did you get into this line of work? I think it’s one of those things where you just fall into a career path. Years ago, I started working in a catalog

Keep IT Happy

| David Pluviose

When it comes to top talent, finders aren’t always keepers. A report by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young titled Retail I.T. 2000 gauges how much priority companies

ALL IN THE FAMILY

| Steve Harris

When the holiday season draws near, magazines dispense healthy doses of advice on how to survive family gatherings. Clearly, these are hugely stressful

Lashback

| Barbara Arnn

When the going gets tough, it’s time to pay attention to CRM. A new Jupiter Research report called Multichannel Customer Service warns that although consumers