Live from eTail: Integration Is Blockbuster Concept

| Melissa Dowling

Palm Desert, CA–You’d have to be living on Mars not to know that Netflix has been gobbling market share of the movie rental business. So what do you do if you’re competitor Blockbuster Online?

Courting cross-channel Loyalty

| Jim Tierney

It’s no secret that the number of cross-channel customers has grown exponentially in recent years to more than 45 million in 2005 and that they tend to

RESOURCE GUIDE: POS software

| MCM staff

Historically point-of-sale (POS) systems didn’t do much more than record customers’ purchases and calculate change. Today’s systems, however, can administer

Integrating the marketing plan

| Steve Trollinger

Welcome to our newest series, Cracking the multichannel code. The multichannel code the Holy Grail of multichannel marketing success is something that

Web 2.0: What It Really Means to You

| MCM staff

Not only are more consumers shopping online than ever before, but they are expecting more from their online experience as well. With Web 2.0 technologies

Targets near and far

| MCM staff

When travel accessories merchant Magellan’s sends out a catalog, the company is not always hoping for a mail order sale. The Santa Barbara, CA-based multichannel

The Experience Equation

| Lois Boyle

Do you remember the last time you really enjoyed an in-store shopping experience? Most likely the store sold items that held your interest, fulfilled

Searching for the retail value of SEM

| Cam Balzer

Search engine marketing (SEM) does more than deliver immediate online transactions. It generates in-store transactions too. A 2005 research from the Dieringer