Talbots: What Lies Behind the Red Door?

| Mark Del Franco

Layoffs, sales shortfalls, and profit plunges have been the rule for marketers this season. Hingham, MA-based women’s apparel cataloger/retailer The Talbots

Corrections and Clarifications

| MCM staff

CORRECTIONS: In the July Small Catalogs Forum (Management Software That Fits) we misspelled the name of CommercialWare. And in the August Electronic Catalog

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

CUSTOM BLENDS

| Susan W. Capparelle

Get a bucket, shake, and pour. Blending your choice of new technologies can create a customized solution for your contact center

Net Effects

| Hollis Thomases

Online contents, sweepstakes, and real-time instant-win games will attract customers by appealing to the what’s in it for me mentality It’s easy to be

Sticker Shock

| Richard Sawyer

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

The Secret Shopper: Mall Crawl

| MCM staff

This month, The Secret Shopper went on a mall crawl, visiting the retail locations of multichannel marketers in Connecticut, New York, and Texas to see

talking heads

| MCM staff

Everybody’s going to go wireless. Wires are expensive, and so are the infrastructure, the support personnel, and the office space. Wireless technology