SPLIT PERSONALITY

| MCM staff

An automated e-mail response costs about 25 cents per incident, compared to $1 for knowledge-based self-service, $6 for interactive voice response, $8

No Clue

| Lew Waddey

Total pricing for 3PF services is about 18% to 22% of gross sales Following the stock market, consumer confidence indices, and recent earnings reports

Nightmare on Main Street

| Curt Barry

Best fits will meet 70%-80% of your needs before modification Here’s an operations and fulfillment professional’s nightmare: After months of research

Lip Service

| Rama Ramaswami

You may like your VOIP with a dash of CRM, but most contact centers go for the online meat and potatoes, as our special benchmark report reveals

Systematic Thinking

| Jeff Kline

I have been actively involved in development and implementation of order management systems and warehouse management systems for over 20 years. I have

FOOL’S GOLD

| Lawrence Dean Shemesh

Dot-com fever unearthed some pockets of pure gold ore, but many prospectors were left with only a few shiny rocks. The Forty-niners just may have a few things to teach the Ninety-niners

Sticker Shock

| Richard Sawyer

Pay up or lose: An in-depth look at the soaring costs of electronic customer relationship management