F. Curtis Barry & Company’s Multichannel Operations & Fulfillment Blog

It’s been a busy summer for the American Catalog Mailers Association, formed this past spring in response to the unexpectedly severe USPS Standard Mail Flats rate increases that have presented a crisis for the catalog industry. The association serves as an advocacy group for catalog mailers only (the definition includes “anyone with significant interests in […]

This is an excerpt from an article written by Bob Betke. You can read the full article here: ERP Software in the Multichannel World.
Multichannel business managers frequently voice the desire to have one system or software package that is capable of managing the entire enterprise, encompassing all functional areas. Enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems have […]

We’ll just go out on a limb and guess that the Middle East is not the first part of the world that comes to readers’ minds as an up-and-coming hot spot for outsourcing. “Middle East” these days is likely to make U.S. readers think first of war in Iraq or Afghanistan or fighting in Israel […]

ProfitCenter Software Inc. (PCS) is ramping up, with three new senior executives on board since April this year and plans to hire more employees. The most recent executive hire, announced this week, is John Marrah, who takes the position of president and CEO. Marrah has nine years of experience managing the largest direct systems provider […]

Outbound freight costs continue to rise, but it is possible for direct marketers to optimize their situations. The good news is that all carrier contracts can be improved—most contracts have a short-term termination clause. However, there are two important steps you must take to achieve all or part of the potential improvement: 1) You have […]

By Bob Betke
As I discussed in Part 1 of this article, it is important that you find a company that suits your needs. A company that provides due diligence services in the multichannel retail arena will help you investigate the feasibility of, or provide support for, mergers, acquisitions, and/or investment opportunities. My firm, F. Curtis […]

Let’s start with what you might think of as a, well, perhaps provocative quote from an India Daily editorial a year ago:
Body shopping is what Indian software companies call software development. It is facilitated by inefficient American management in American companies that need cheap labor to service arrogant, inefficient and unproductive managers. These American companies […]

By Bob Betke
Begin by finding a company that provides due diligence services to potential investors in the multichannel retail arena to investigate the feasibility of, or provide support for, mergers, acquisitions, and/or investment opportunities. My firm, F. Curtis Barry & Company, has been working in this market for many years. Our perspective is one of […]

OrderMotion continues its webinar series focused on preparing merchants for the busy holiday retail season and how to significantly grow their business
Boston, Massachusetts—August 16, 2007 — OrderMotion, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand, direct commerce solutions for small-to-medium-sized merchants announced the continuation of its popular “how-to” Webinar series that is helping merchants […]

Nonprofits are looking at shifting flat mailings to letters, even though the perception is that letters have less impact. The DMA reports that catalogers are sending postcard mailings to prospects and inviting them to request a catalog. The postcards can advertise an item to entice recipients to order the item and a catalog. The postcards […]