TECHNOLOGY UPDATE

| Barbara Arnn

It’s not just headsets and automatic call distributors (ACDs) any more. Contact center technology has evolved into a sophisticated world of its own, with

NEW CATALOGS

| MCM staff

PCS Edventures! A supplier of hands-on K-12 curricula, Boise, ID-based PCS Edventures specializes in learning labs that range in price from $595 to nearly

This time it’s personal

| Ken Magill

Like one-to-one print marketing, true one-to-one e-commerce a Web experience personalized by the merchant for each customer and prospect has turned out

Leon Henry Reflects on 50 Years of Insert Media

| Tim Parry

A lot has changed in the marketing industry since Leon Henry started his business in 1956, especially the acceptance of insert media as a form of marketing. But 50 years on, Henry, founder/president of the Hartsdale, NY-based list firm that bears his name, says he doesn’t know the tactic’s future.

Flight Your Mail to Get It Delivered

| MCM staff

Long before he became president of Algonquin, IL-based consultancy Singleton Marketing, Bill Singleton worked as a part-time express courier while in school. Often he would deliver to one company a dozen overnight letters from one sender.

Answers.com Offers Just the Facts

| Brian Quinton

In the latest nod to the power of the Web community, Yahoo! last week launched Yahoo! Answers, a service in which seekers can pose questions that are too complex for simple search engines and get their answers from actual human beings

A dearth of deals

| MCM staff

How few industry mergers and acquisitions were there during the third quarter? So few that the biggest story involved a deal that wasn’t consummated:

A Winning Team

| MCM staff

Merchandising is arguably the most important department of a catalog/e-commerce/retail operation. If the product isn’t appropriate for the target audience,

backword

| MCM staff

Yeah. We need that Who says office supplies catalogs aren’t funny? OK, most people, but perhaps they need to take a look at Stooples, a parody catalog