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Holiday Rush?
Even in a recovering economy, the Holiday season is the most stressful of the year. Having a good retail POS system in place can make or break your season, as well as determine how many gray hairs you get!
Barcode time, UPC or bust!
Most products come from the vendor or distributor with UPC labels already affixed, but what do you do about those items that don't? Retailers should have a barcoding strategy with their POS systems to make sure they can use scanners to enter transactions for greater speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
Tough Times Demand Tighter Retail Security
Every retailer has a unique set of security challenges and, in the retail world, your security challenges never end. More retailers are realizing that using perimeter and anti-virus technologies alone are not enough. As someone once said, it's like locking your doors but leaving your windows open. Now retailers must take a lot more security measures. Here are some vital strategies retailers need to take for preventative measures against retail loss...
Loyalty Programs
In these trying times for retailers, customers are increasingly shopping based on rewards or loyalty programs. It's no longer enough to have good prices, retailers must make the shopping experience special, and the customer has to feel unique and loved. Carefully designed loyalty programs can maintain sales even in tough times by rewarding repeat customers with special pricing, benefits, and more.
POS Security for Productivity
We talk about data security and video security, but one of the simplest, most fundamental aspects of security is often overlooked or improperly maintained, anti-virus and firewall protection.
The Cost of Lost Sales
Accurate inventory stocking according to demand and sales history is vital to reducing lost sales and inventory overhead, thereby increasing profit, customer satisfaction, and loyalty.
FSA Payments
Retail Pharmacies are facing upcoming regulation changes on accepting flexible spending account payments for approved merchandise. They need to be sure they're ready and using an approved system.
The Power of Employees
Employees are as good or as bad as you make them. Proper training and sharing of tools and information can result in powerful employee activity and relationships
Factors to Consider When Selecting a Point of Sale System
One of the most critical and possibly frightening purchases a retailer will ever have to make is a point of sale system. It is a critical purchase because it will force the retailer to reexamine their business policies, procedures and plans for the future. It is a frightening purchase because few retailers have experience in selecting a point of sale system and with such a large investment required they will have to live with their decision, be it good or bad, for quite some time. This document lists the essential items that retailers should consider in their POS buying decision.

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Closing the Sale
The final step in the sales process is the close. Despite what you might have read or heard about sales, this step should be easy and quick. It is the cumulative effect of all your hard work during the first three steps of prospecting, qualifying and presenting. If there is no sale at this point, then something was missed in your presentation or qualifying stages. The sale will happen only after you do your job effectively during the entire sales process. Following are the critical points to remember when closing a sale.

PreSale Franchise Disclosure in Ontario
Since the passage of the Wishart Act, franchisors in the province of Ontario have found themselves bound to perform various duties and tasks in the operation, and primarily the sale, of their franchise system. The greatest single feature of the Wishart Act is a broad pre-sale duty to disclose information about the franchisor, the system, and its franchisees. This paper will set out various areas which franchisors and their lawyers should consider a potential minefield of liability, exemptions from the Wishart Act’s disclosure requirement; and the penalties and remedies that aggrieved franchisees can seek against a non-compliant franchisor. peter macrae dillon franchise franchisor franchising lawyer attorney Toronto Ontario Canada siskinds
Stress-Free Selling® - What's the Best Way to Convince Buyers to Choose You?
Recently a seminar attendee told me, "Jenae, I'm having trouble convincing people my product is the best. What should I do?" For starters, stop trying to convince people! When you approach a sale from the vantage point of "convincing others," you are focused on what you need to tell them about you. How many times have you heard, "No one cares about you until they see how you care about them?" Well then, pay attention! Start the sale by asking a ton of questions and not talking about yourself... at all. Out of this information...
Factors to Consider When Selecting a Point of Sale System
One of the most critical and possibly frightening purchases a retailer will ever have to make is a point of sale system. It is a critical purchase because it will force the retailer to reexamine their business policies, procedures and plans for the future. It is a frightening purchase because few retailers have experience in selecting a point of sale system and with such a large investment required they will have to live with their decision, be it good or bad, for quite some time. This document lists the essential items that retailers should consider in their POS buying decision.
Retail Costing, FIFO, LIFO, Average COST?
Retailers live on their margins, so you obviously need to have a good understanding of your real cost of goods sold (COGS). Understanding your costs from your vendors will help you choose the appropriate method, as will your point of sale system.
What's Returns Have To Do With It?
On a subject I don't talk much about, I wanted to address a subject that does affect retailers, even with a good POS system. And that's about returns. We can't ignore statistics, and these are showing us some important trends in retail fraud. We're finding that fraudulent returns total $9.6 billion a year, according to figures from the National Retail Federation, and a Return Exchange's Retail Returns Study puts the figure at more than $17 billion annually. Returns that come through an automated system like your POS can take the burden of granting returns out of the store's hands. The merchandise tag can be scanned at point of sale and, when a customer c
Staffing needs in the Holiday Rush
Let your retail point of sale system save you time and money by reducing your staffing needs this holiday season
The power of leveraging a system
To leverage is to be able to maximize your work. Just like with the use of a lever, one can lift heavier loads on with leveraging system. You can use this power of leveraging a system to earn more money for yourself. Efficient and effective leveraging is all about using the fulcrum as its most optimum point. Just like Archimedes wanted a lever long enough and a place to use it to move the earth, similarly you should utilize the power of leveraging a system at the right level to get the most results.

For Sale by Owner …Tips for Potential Buyers
The “for sale by owner” approach to selling valuable property is less commonly used for sale of commercial real estate and businesses than it is even used for residential real estate. From the buyer’s point of view, this usually would be more risky than buying a business when the seller is represented by a business broker.
The Three Biggest Mistakes in Sales Presentations
The sales presentation is the ultimate purpose of every sales process, of every sales call, and of every sales system. The job of the sales person revolves around the point in time when he offers the customer something to buy. Without the sales presentation, there can be no sale. It is, then, the foundational step in the sales process. Everything that happens before is in preparation for the presentation, and everything that happens afterward is a result of the presentation. Alas, that is not the case. Left to learn on their own, many sales people make the same mistakes over and over again. Here are the three most commonly made sales presentation mistakes.

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