Retail Marketing Tips

Hi guys! I just attended a very well received social mediawebinar hosted by Mari Smith and Guy Kawasaki. Bothare not only experts in social media but have a seriousknack for creating and building relationships. I foundsome of their tips to be particularly useful to retailers soam pleased to be able to share them with you. The fullwebinar can be watched here:http://marismith.com/7smtrends/video.htmlPoint #1: Listening to your customers.Going out of...

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Plastic Card Printing in the USA vs. Outsourcing Abroad

Plastic Resource, a Minnesota company, recently launched a new web site aimed towards worldwide growth of plastic gift cards, loyalty cards and custom plastic printing.http://plasticresource.com/Millions of Americans interact with plastic card products on a daily basis. Your health club membership card gets swiped, use plastic gift cards to pay for your coffee, accumulate points at lunch with your loyalty cards, and stand out from your competition...

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How to Generate 2D Barcodes in Excel

by Nate SchubertGenerating 2D barcodes from fonts in Microsoft Excel is more complicated than generating standard linear barcodes from fonts because Excel does not recognize line breaks or carriage returns when the data is being encoded in Excel. This results in a barcode display that does not stack the individual lines of encoded text. Instead, these blocks are laid out horizontally to form a rectangle rather than a square. This is not a readable 2D barcode. While the IDAutomation Barcode Add-In may not be directly compatible with Excel, there...

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RSPA Connect Features One Step Retail Article

Our CEO and Founder, Scott Kreisberg's recent article on Retail Loss Prevention was recently included in the Retail Solutions Provider Association's monthly publication Connect. We are proud to be affiliated with this upstanding retail association. http://www.gorspa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=5075For more information on One Step Retail Solutions visit our website: www.onestepretail....

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5 Customer Service No-Nos

Customer service is a function that every member of every group handles in one capacity or another. From reception to security and on over to your sales clerks, this is helpful information for all.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2OfswoyQmU&feature=col...

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Success in 2012 LogiMAT

Thanks to all the prospects, partners, customers, press representatives who vistited the TSC team and its portfolio printers at LogiMAT in Stuttgart. TSC's 2012 first show was another big success and proof of the increasing brand recognition. This is smart. This is TSC. The Smarter Choi...

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Budgeting Tips for Point of Sale

Many retailers shake their heads in wonder over what to budget for retail technology. Imagine going to a car dealership and thinking that car payments would be comparable to your mortgage or rent, you would be pleasantly surprised. Now imagine you thought that your car payments should be the equivalent of a pint of ice cream - not such a pleasant surprise. Surprisingly, there is a lack of data on what to budget for point of sale. The concept...

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Powerful Labeling & Reporting Software with only 20MB

TEC-IT releases version 7 of the label printing and reporting suite TFORMer! Performance and Usability The new version of this label printing and reporting tool combines unmatched functionality with high performance and small resource requirements. The download size of the complete package is about 20 MB and contains all features, no additional 3rd party software is required. StreamingTFORMer SDK version 7 supports so-called streaming:...

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Teamwork Retail Website is Now Live! - The POS of Your Dreams

The One Step Team is very excited and proud to announce the launch of our dedicated Teamwork Retail website. Teamwork Retail is a Cloud-based Retail ManagementSystem.Teamwork is poised to become the top point of sale forretailers across the US. Top of the line mobile POS, cloud based, Software as a Service, iPad compatible, subscription based, franchise management, customizable reporting and much more, this product has it all.This site is fully set...

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How to put your POS to work - POS Features and Integration Study #1 – Marketing

We just recently surveyed the action sports industry and found that 48% had either no system for customer management or have not put their existing system to use.A few years ago we surveyed our retail clients and asked them what their plans were to market to their existing customers for the holidays. We were shocked to find that almost 40% had no plans to do special holiday marketing to their existing customers and 64% had no customer loyalty program...

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Strong accents at SITL EuropeDate: 27.-30. March 2012Place: Villepinte, Paris, FranceHall: 8Booth: T085TSC Auto ID EMEA Technology GmbH will be presenting two current product developments that set new benchmarks not only in performance and functionality, but also in price. The Alpha-3R mobile direct thermal printer and the ME240 industrial high-performance printer have numerous standard features that simply cannot be found in comparable models from...

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Tarantino Makes Downtown LA SPARKLE

Tarina Tarantino is poised to bring her colorful designs to a brand new flagship location and headquarters office on downtown Los Angeles' famous S Broadway. Broadway has a host of new tenants arriving over the next year, exciting for this old Hollywood mainstay.This beautiful new building will house not only a "workshop" storefront where guests can watch their own one of a kind jewelry come to life but the upper floors will house their factory and...

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How To Get Sales Through Pinterest: For Retailers

Updated February, 2013 to include some recent updates. With almost 15 million users and reports of retailers getting more sales through Pinterest than Facebook, Twitter and Google+ combined, Pinterest has become a relevant and important resource for retailers.The question can be raised, HOW could a bunch of pictures result in sales at store level? And, HOW does one control what others will “pin”?Here is some helpful data:  Pinterest...

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STMS configuration for a standalone SAP system (local transport domain)

This article answers the below queries ü  How to perform STMS configuration of an SAP system (local transport domain)?ü  How to do STMS configuration in the post system refresh steps of SAP system?-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please use user id which has SAP_ALL access and login to 000 client of an SAP system.Please execute transaction code STMS.A screen similar to below will appear....

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Point-of-Sale Solutions on an iPAD - Welcome to the Future

In the past few years we have seen hardware transform - touch screen phones, lighter than a book personal laptops, virtual changing rooms and cars that look like they belong in a Tom Cruise movie. It is certain that the future is here and it is everything that we imagined but way, way cooler. POS software has continued to advance through the years and the various capabilities can helpguarantee the success of a store. We now have fat systems that do everything from inventory tracking to customer preferences and integrating with your vendors – a...

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Deleting Transport Management System (TMS) Configuration

This article answers the following queries:Ø  What is the need to delete TMS configuration?Ø  How to delete “local” Transport Management System (TMS) Configuration from SAP system?Ø  What is the Tcode used to delete TMS configuration?Ø  How to resolve “Local TMS configuration is inconsistent” issue in SAP?---------------------------------------------------------------------------------In some real time scenarios, it is required...

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Applying sap license

This article answers the following queries :ü  How to apply SAP license in a SAP system ?ü  When to apply license for an SAP system ?ü  How to delete an existing license of an SAP system ?ü  What is the transaction code used to apply license in SAP ?ü  Explain the process of applying license in SAP ?ü  How to request an SAP license key ?----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In...

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Global Shop 2012 Rewind - Judge a Shop by it's Cover?

We just returned from Global Shop, a leading store design and at-store marketing convention in Las Vegas. The sheer creativity and resources available to retailers really got my creative juices going.Retail is a sensory industry, you are selling products that can either be touched, worn, viewed, used, held, smelt, eaten or in some cases… all of the above. Somewhere between the operation and budget, the overall FEEL and IMPRESSION being created IN store can get lost. This is especially true for small to medium sized retail shops that sometimes do...

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