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Editor's Notebook
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More Reasons To Make Your SEO Efforts Count
By Erin Harris, Associate Editor
Our July issue included a Q&A with Sean Cook, CEO at ShopVisible, an on-demand e-commerce solution provider. Cook answered my questions about why many retailers find SEO (search engine optimization) so puzzling. He explains that content, architecture, and inbound links are SEO's three most important factors. Think about it: Google has made a healthy living at making search the most relevant way for customers to find products. Therefore, it pays for retailers to focus on a true search strategy.
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Featured Integrated Solutions For Retailers Article
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An Education In Back-To-School Sales
By Marriam Kinny, Oracle Retail
With the bulk of merchandise planning well behind us, this season now hinges on how well retailers manage the inventory that resides in stores and in the supply chain. Store by store, retailers will respond to opportunities to feature full-price merchandise, replenish high-volume inventory, and mark down underperforming items.
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Guest Expert Series
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Challenges Manufacturers Face In An E-Commerce Environment
By Richard Angelo, Director Product Marketing, Jesta I.S. Inc.
The traditional role of a manufacturer was to mass-produce products and sell them in bulk to retailers (or distributors) who provide the infrastructure and services to consumers that wish to purchase these products in the retail market. There has traditionally been a sharp distinction between the wholesale market and the retail market. However, the advent of online retailing and drop-shipping has blurred these lines to a point where manufacturers are now active competitors the retail market.
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Featured Articles
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Self-Service Bill Payment: Killer App On A Kiosk
Submitted By Source Technologies
This white paper is produced for our customers, partners, and prospects to give them a deeper understanding of the self-service concept, and the business case for deploying such solutions as bill payment automation. Retailers and financial institutions benefit significantly by moving these expensive and time-consuming transactions from the counter to a transactional kiosk.
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Improve The Performance Of Your Fleet And Logistics Management
Submitted By Pitney Bowes Business Insight
Fleet and logistics managers are facing extraordinary times. Rising costs, less predictable volumes, and corporate-wide budget pressures have raised the stakes on decisions and operations that are anything less than perfect. Industry leaders, however, have identified pockets of opportunity where more precise data can improve performance in dramatic ways — and deliver an impressive ROI at a time when every dollar counts.
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Bringing A 19th-Century Vendor Into 21st-Century Retailing
By Wendy Meyeroff
When Dave Cliett joined Mast General Store in 2003 as director of operations, the company had advanced beyond its original Casio registers and some inventory pads to using a software package that "was a good POS/back office/inventory management system, but it had a lot of downsides," he explained. "It didn't work in real time, for example, so we couldn't truly keep track of stock through all our outlets."
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Featured Content
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| On-Demand Inventory And Warehouse Management Solutions |
| Today, supply chain management is uniquely difficult because its complexity extends beyond a company's walls. Issues such as globalization, internal and external business practices, and customer requirements come into play. We've reached a tipping point where technology vendors need to address both the need for an agile and dynamic solution and the age old problem of inventory visibility and collaboration.
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| Macy's Increases Backhaul Loads By 30 Per Week |
| According to the National Private Truck Council, approximately 28% of trailers on U.S. highways are currently running empty at high cost to companies, the economy, and the environment. During these challenging times, reducing empty miles has become especially critical for a carrier's operations and bottom-line health.
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| Green Your Surveillance With The Right IP Video Software |
| Video surveillance energy consumption is largely attributed to the electrical power required to operate the servers that are running the cameras and storing vast amounts of recorded video data. However, electrical power usage is not a typical design criterion for CCTV, nor is it properly managed as an expense.
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