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When The Customer Won't Pay
As the recession grinds on, more and more businesses and consumers are feeling the pinch. Some businesses and consumers are trying to solve their cash problems by paying their bills more slowly. And, unfortunately, bills from small businesses are often the ones that businesses and consumers think they can delay paying. That doesn't mean your business should accept this as a fact of business life. There are a number of steps you can take to collect outstanding receivables and to get customers to pay on time.

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It's Up To YOU To Get Yourself Out of Funk
A few years back, my relationship was not looking much healthier than the insane one that came before it. He had some issues that were clearly not designed to empower a committed relationship. He needed to do something about those issues or I was going to jump ship. Well, he wouldn’t. So I did something about it and didn’t jump ship.
Does your system tells how much you should buy?
Retailing is a delicate balance between merchandise and cash. It’s a high stakes balancing act: commit money early to large quantities of merchandise, and possibly end up with too much; or, commit less up front, saving cash for later, and take the risk of not being able to get the goods when you need them.

PoP (Point of Purchase) Visual Merchandising
Visual Merchandising is often known as PoP or Point of Purchase, is the art of presentation, which puts the merchandise in focus. It educates the customers, creates desire and finally enhances the selling process.
Running Franchise Merchandise Programs through Online Stores
Franchises are in a unique situation when it comes to creating a merchandise program; most individual stores have a different owner each with their own opinion on how the business should be run. An online store can ensure consistency across all your promotional products and merchandise.
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.
Sales Coaching Tips
If you have not been achieving your sales target, what could be the reason(s)? What can you do to avoid a "Shape Up" or "Ship Out" ultimatum?
Is your Inventory Planned ?
While planning the merchandise mix, a retail organization has to start with a clear definition of its merchandise hierarchy. The merchandise hierarchy is a disciplined way of grouping the merchandise mix at different levels, starting from a high-level grouping to the lowest level of the stock-keeping unit (SKU). The grouping may at times have even more than four-five levels such as Color, Size and Design.
Open the Floodgates!
Are people in your organization just biding their time until they can jump ship? Do you believe it? Do you care? You should... These statistics are pretty alarming.

Customers And Loyalty Come With Devoted and Enthusiastic Retailing--Part I
Traditionally as specialty retailers, we have gone out and bought the merchandise we liked and felt was appropriate for our business. Those of us who had a good eye or had some ability at marketing were able to move our store’s product assortments reasonably well. But things are changing. Increased competition and technology are forcing change. Retailing from here on out is going to require turning a good part of this strategy upside down. Again, in the past we all started with products and categories we wanted to carry, and then worked to build a customer base for that merchandise. But today those retailers who are doing the best jobs of sales and profit margins are learning to adjust to the rapidly changing retail world by taking advantage of more technology and information.

Let’s Talk Trash
It is easy to generate enormous amounts of trash on a rehab project. These take up a huge space in containers and then there is always that last load that mysteriously turned up. Some folks will order a 40 yard debris box only to have the neighbors fill it up overnight with their old appliances and what not. Depending on the neighborhood the problem can be either better or worse. Before creating any construction debris, I have followed a policy of “a clean ship is a happy ship.”

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