Newsletter | November 7, 2011

11.07.2011 -- Inside Frederick's Of Hollywood's Mobile Website Initiative

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Customer-Centric Marketing:
Making the Move from Campaigns to Cross-Channel Dialogue

The "blast" marketing of the past is no longer sufficient to engage today's customers and foster loyalty. New automated dialogue strategies have come to the rescue to engage and satisfy today's cross-channel customer. Register for this webinar to learn how to make the move from traditional marketing to new 1:1 customer dialogues and lasting loyalty.

Editor's Notebook

Holiday Theft And Fraud Prevention: A Q&A With NRF's Joe LaRocca
By Erin Harris, associate editor
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, retailers have strategized their LP efforts for everything from return fraud to crowd management. Recently, I caught up with Joe LaRocca, senior asset protection advisor at NRF, about thwarting theft and fraud this season.

Featured Integrated Solutions For Retailers Article

Inside Frederick's Of Hollywood's Mobile Website Initiative
By Erin Harris, associate editor
The mobile phone is evolving into a powerful commerce tool, enabling consumers to review products, run price comparisons, access inventory levels, and make transactions over the mobile network as well as at the POS.

Inside Frederick's Of Hollywood's Mobile Website Initiative

Guest Expert Series

Is SMB Ready For ERP?
By Steven Greenwood, vice president, Magstar
There are six major interrelated challenges that the SMB retailer must address to be successful in today's marketplace. This article explains how an integrated ERP solution can assist in meeting these challenges. You can still catch up with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series.

Featured Articles

Sorting Out The Alphabet Soup Of VPN Solutions
Submitted by MegaPath
Today's distributed organizations face the challenge of finding VPN WAN solutions that support the proliferation of branch offices and mobile workers, along with the successful deployment of demanding, critical, and converged applications such as video, Voice over IP (VoIP), payment processing, storage, CRM, and ERP.

Sorting Out The Alphabet Soup Of VPN Solutions

Top 3 Strategies For Securing Retail Special Events
Submitted by Wren Solutions
Managing special events is relevant to every segment of retail, and is an activity that can be forever improved. From Black Friday, to special promotions, celebrity appearances, and new product releases — special events are a common occurrence in retail.

Top 3 Strategies For Securing Retail Special Events

Measuring Customer Satisfaction Adds $60M Revenue
Submitted by CFI Group
A provider of business software faced increased competition and falling customer retention. They saw their share of wallet from existing customers threatened and sought to take action before it impacted their bottom line.

Measuring Customer Satisfaction Adds $60M Revenue

From Stock Management To Direct Store Delivery: How Mobile Devices Improve Efficiency
Submitted by Datalogic Mobile
The use of mobile devices has long been commonplace in retail stores across the globe. The purpose of this whitepaper is to explore the main drivers for the recent explosion of mobile technology.

From Stock Management To Direct Store Delivery: How Mobile Devices Improve Efficiency

Industry News

Buca di Beppo Chooses Transaction Wireless To Power Digital Gift Cards
Prolexic Predicts Increasing DDoS Attack Durations During Upcoming Holiday Season
VeriFone Acquires Global Bay To Expand Retail Mobility Strategy
OTT And SPS Commerce Team To Offer Cloud-Based Supply Chain Solutions
World's First BPA-Free, Recycled Thermal Receipt Paper Made With 70% Post-Consumer Waste
Partnership Brings Interactive Retail Solutions To Expanding Wireless Market
Revionics And Roundy's Supermarkets Present On Price Optimization Solutions
Diebold's Stephenson Announces Retirement
CFI Group Releases New Online Reporting For Customer Experience Management
Citi Retail Partner Cards Strengthens And Expands Leadership Team
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Featured Content

Warehouse Management In The Palm Of Your Hand
When your employees prepare orders for shipment, do they know exactly where to go to choose products in the most efficient manner, or are they moving from aisle to aisle in a disorderly, almost haphazard approach?

MVaaS For Retail Loss Prevention
The National Retail Federation predicts that retailers will lose $3.68B dollars this year from refund fraud, which often involves collusion with employees who disguise the returns as legitimate transactions.

NYC Quick-Serve Restaurant Increases Order Accuracy
Click here to see how Rockwells Express embraced Epson's ReStick label printer, along with Dinerware POS, to enhance customer service, eliminate errors, and save on custom packaging.

Golf Mill Shopping Center Reaps The Many Benefits Of Analytic Surveillance
With the addition of exclusive restaurants, a multiplex movie theater, an off-track betting facility, and a 24-hour fitness gym, Golf Mill Shopping Center in Niles, Illinois, felt that the increase in visitor and vehicle traffic warranted additional security measures.
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