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To make money online, you need to offer products that customers want to buy. New online research tools can help you determine what customers want to buy BEFORE you open your store. This article explains how to use Google, Yahoo, and Keyword tools to uncover profitable customer demand.  More...
I had a salesman in a car dealership lie to me once about having an add-on product in stock, because he didn't want the hassle of going to dig the unwieldy item out of the store room.  More...
CRM software or (Customer Relationship Management) software is one of the most widely used software applications used by businesses to store critical information related to customers or prospective customers which can be used for marketing, sales, customer service and other areas of business which involves contact with potential or existing custom  More...
LinkedIn just launched LinkedIn Applications, possibly the most significant update since LinkedIn Answers. How is this going to impact marketing and sales within the network? Read on for more.  More...
Saturation mail is a way to reach all the households in a given area at a low postage rate. In its whitepaper, Saturation Mail: A “Best Kept Secret” No More, Melissa DATA’s experts explain the benefits of saturation mailings, including lowering your cost per lead by 70 percent, mailing to a targeted audience in the community, and saving 24 cents o  More...
If you want to make your website better at turning visitors into customers (or subscribers), you need to understand why most of your visitors are leaving! But those people come and go without trace! How do you know what they wanted? How do you know what would have persuaded them to take action? If you owned a real-life bricks-and-mortar stor  More...
For the first time, the web has surpassed the store as the preferred way for multi-channel shoppers to purchase holiday gifts, according to the e-tailing group‘s third annual “Mindset of the Multi-Channel Shopper Holiday Survey.”  More...
For very large purchases my husband, Eric, won't leave the house until he's researched it to death for brand reputation, customer feedback, and consumer reports studies. Typically, he'll enter a store knowing more than the salesperson and it becomes a battle of who knows more about what and then Eric hands over the money once he's proven how b  More...
Cause-related marketing can increase sales as much as 74% in certain consumer-goods categories, and consumers spend twice as long looking at cause-related ads than generic corporate ones, according to a study by Cone and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. After participants were exposed to either a cause-related or a generic corporate  More...
United Parcel Service Inc has launched a bridge loan for small U.S. businesses that import goods into the country. Under the UPS Capital Cargo Finance program, the company will advance 50 percent of the value of goods to U.S. importers for up to 60 days upon pickup of the merchandise in a foreign country. The goods themselves will serve as coll  More...
According to a new report by the Online Publishers Association, local media sites hold a distinct advantage when it comes to delivering results for advertisers. The study finds that consumers trust advertising on local newspaper, magazine and television Websites, and are very likely to take action after viewing ads on these sites. Newspapers ra  More...
Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a cage when he bought bird-cage.com, an online store, for $1,800 three years ago. He simply saw a Web site that was “very, very poorly done,” and begged the owners to sell it to him. He then redesigned the site, added advertising and drove up traffic. Last December, he sold it for $173,000. Mr. Hermansen is  More...
Your company could offer the best prices and services around, but if your company fails to make customers feel wanted, you can consider the chances of repeat business out the door. When it comes to retaining customers, simple gestures go a long way. And yet, if studies are anything to go by, we have yet to learn the fine art of keeping customers f  More...
Whether you sell products in a store or a catalog, or on a Web site, marketing the experience of ownership is critical in making the sale. Studies show that even with high-ticket items like cars, consumers are driven more by desires than product features. The fantasy of experience offers rich opportunities for creative exploration on Web sites – a  More...
Featured on the cover of this month's New York Enterprise Report, Leonard has grown his father's Norwalk, Conn.-based dairy farm into a four-chain supermarket that redefines the shopping experience. Too bad you have to live in the Northeast to enjoy Stew Leonard's. What makes this place so unique is aside from its high-quality, uber-fresh fo  More...