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The Channel Management Shuffle
Laura Faught 12/23/2005 12:00:00 AM
Executives and middle management are constantly faced with determining policy, process, and technology around managing one or multiple channels. What is critical to successful channel management?
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A Unique Product Lifecycle Management Tool for Private Label Retail
Michael Bittner 12/16/2005 12:00:00 AM
The Worldwide Retail Exchange (WWRE) and the Global NetXchange (GNX) have merged their complementary Web-enabled product sets to form Agentrics LLC. One outcome is the ProductVine PLM solution, which is clearly designed for and targeted to private label retailers.
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Positioning Makes Your Marketing Budget Go Further—and Hit the Target
Lawson Abinanti 12/2/2005 12:00:00 AM
Many business-to-business (B2B) software companies don't have a formal positioning process, and it's costing them time, money, and much more—a marketing message that misses the mark. This article explores the benefits of implementing a business process for positioning.
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Global versus Local Channel Approach, Who Will Win?
P.J. Jakovljevic 8/26/2005 12:00:00 AM
There is a clear distinction between the market dynamics within the respective MBS and Sage/Best channels.
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Addressing Channels and the Low-End Market
P.J. Jakovljevic 8/24/2005 12:00:00 AM
Microsoft announced plans to increase resources and provide new tools and offerings for MBS independent software vendors (ISV) and value-added resellers (VAR). These efforts are designed to accelerate the MBS Group's partner-driven vertical strategy, providing stronger opportunities for partners to align their services and solutions with their customers' specific needs. Microsoft has to be in the small business market, which is a springboard or a feeding ground for more scalable products as these businesses grow over time.
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Getting Management to Buy-in on Positioning
Lawson Abinanti 6/25/2005 12:00:00 AM
Lack of consensus about the marketing message is a common, especially when the message differs between top management and the rest of marketing communications. Adopting a positioning process including executive management approval can be the answer.
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Challenging the Competition: Mega-mergers and Supply Chain Technology
P.J. Jakovljevic 4/19/2005 12:00:00 AM
In theory, the Kmart-Sears merger could produce a new layer of competition to mega-retailers such as Wal-Mart. However, it needs more than just size to be competitive. It needs to coordinate its retail strategy with supply chain technology to make it triumph.
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Retailers Join Forces for a "Make or Break" Attempt in Their Competitive Landscape
P.J. Jakovljevic 4/18/2005 12:00:00 AM
Today's competitive retail landscape has lead to mega-mergers between some of the oldest retailers in the US: Kmart and Sears. Before the technical issues of merging disparate supply chain systems can be addressed, these giants first had had to get their business "housekeeping" in order.
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Consumers Shop Everywhere: Understanding Multichannel Sales
P.J. Jakovljevic 4/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
Multichannel retailers must be able to flawlessly execute a full range of services to engage, transact, and fulfill on Web placed orders. Hence, most successful multichannel retailers of today had to either build a complete set of the services in-house or outsource some or all of them.
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The Three Cs of Successful Positioning Part Four: The Customer
Lawson Abinanti 3/29/2005 12:00:00 AM
What's keeping your customer up at night? Know thy customers—and their problems.
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