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Learn how to use your POS to motivate employees to sell more!

Your sales staff is the lifeblood of your business. They can, in fact, make or break a sale. The good news is that you can utilize your POS software to motivate your staff to sell more and perform...

Global retailing of textiles and apparels

Retailing is the latest buzzword among the business. This newest "fad" is getting high visibility media coverage. Dynamic young people as well as blue-chip companies are suddenly taking pride in...

What makes some retail businesses so successful at pleasing customers - and how you can use this information to increase sales by 50% or more.

There is NO doubt about it! Customer service is the most important thing for the specialty retailer to think about - because it can realistically increase your sales by 50% or more. Great customer...

What does software as a service mean for business intelligence?

As companies move toward the use of software as a service, they must carefully evaluate the impact of this on the overall enterprise business intelligence system. Software as a service, or SaaS, is...

Basic tips for better visual merchandising

Great store presentation and product merchandising is like a good book. It’s got an alluring cover to entice, an interesting first chapter to tell the reader they’ve made the right choice, and a...

POS terminals and your business

POS terminals have revolutionized the way consumers buy their goods and services. Even more so they have revolutionized the back end operations of retail stores. They have simplified the way that...

Simplify your mercantile complications with retail accounting

In a society like ours, knowledge of bookkeeping is highly important to those people who are engaged in any kind of mercantile activities. Since every retail shop deals with never ending flow of cash ...

Increase retail store traffic and improve your business image

A surprisingly simple way to increase sales is to continue branding your retail business at the point of sale. Let me explain... A primary goal of every retailer should be to brand their company...

The "fast fashion" risk for slow retailers - A view

Fashion is, by definition, perishable. Like bread, eggs and milk. Or is it? When bread turns stale, eggs turn rotten or milk turns rancid, you do have to throw it away. Fashion is different, because...

Myth and Reality of the Retail Revolution

Though the mall mania of the last few years indicates a change in shopping patterns, the wild exuberance in retail expectations may be misplaced and the real revolution is still waiting to happen....

The focus in research and development (R&D) is now more and more set on new sustainable products...
Posted by
Fanny Vermandel
A few years later, the same process is now taking place in textile printing, and this has never...
Posted by
Gabi Seligsohn
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey concluded that a majority of US companies are having...
Posted by
Bill D’Arienzo
Is your business ready for Textiles 4.0? Before you can say, 'Yes', 'No', 'May be' or 'I don't...
Posted by
Aseem Prakash
Imagine a cricketer, once an exciting player but now aged 45, having put on oodles of weight, too...
Posted by
Rahul Mehta
Indians are too enamoured of Hollywood. We can’t help it. We have been conditioned this way. The...
Posted by
Anurag Batra
It was not very long ago that people who shopped online in India were considered 'ahead of time'....
Posted by
Arun Sirdeshmukh
Why do I ask if India can afford to miss the bus again? Because whether we like it or not, whether...
Posted by
Rahul Mehta
Effective quality management starts with a quality policy. Effectiveness is the extent to which...
Posted by
Pradip Mehta
Luxury is a lifestyle, and fashion is just a minuscule part of it. Businesswise-the most visible or ...
Posted by
Abhay Gupta