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8 ways retailers can have a profitable 2012

8 Ways Retailers Can Have A Profitable 2012

This white paper can help your retail business convert the casual shopper into a prospective buyer. These valuable suggestions will help make your 2012 a very profitable year.  Download now.

10 surefire ways to expand

10 Surefire Ways to Expand your Customer Base

A quick read for free or inexpensive ways to market your business.  Some may go hand-in-hand with your retail POS system, while some ideas don't include a retail management software, just passion and follow-through.  Download now.

creative ways to retain customers

5 Creative Ways to Retain Customers

Gathering and analyzing customer preferences is the most efficient way of retaining your customer base.  This guide will give you ideas that will help you gain and retain customers.  Download now.

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10 Expert Views - Retail Survival Strategies for the Holidays

This white paper can help your retail business to endure these uncertain times during the upcoming holiday season, but can have long-reaching benefits far into the future.  And, there is a handy checklist to see if your POS system has the right featues to help you compete.  Download now.

Enhance Customer Experience

How to Enhance the Customer Experience in your Garden Center

Although this white paper seems to have a garden center slant, the ideas can be used in any store.  These ways of building your business should be tracked in your point of sale software.  That way you can find out what's working and what's not.  Download now.

Point of Sale Hardware

HP Retail Hardened

What Makes HP Point of Sale Systems Retail Hardened?

HP is committed to offering point of sale systems that are designed, manufactured and tested to meet with ever-growing, often-changing needs of the retailer who has high standard for their POS system. Find out what retail hardened really means in this 18-page white paper and how much money it can ultimately save your business.  Download now.

HP Retail Hardened

Retail-Hardened Store Solution from IBM


Reliability is the most important performance factor for any POS system. Retail-hardened solutions can help retailers maintain high uptime in extreme environments so transactions can be completed and technical support costs can be minimized. Download now.

Point of Sale Software Information

Making POS Work for You

Making Point of Sale Work for You

Long lines, missing inventory, no data to support hunches.  And, for some, receipts stored in a box.  Sound familiar?  These are all possible results stemming from the lack of a retail management system.  This white paper will speak to many different types of retail.  Retailers share many the same challenges only their inventory is different.  Download now.

POS checklist

Point of Sale Checklist

Thoroughly researching retail software can be daunting.  In this 15-page POS checklist, you have 200+ questions to ask all vendors; by the end of your research you'll be able to make an informed decision based on features critical to your retail business.  Download now.

Point of Sale Software - Business Intelligence

Make Smarter Business Decisions

Making Smarter Business Decisions:  Up your sales in a down economy

This article is geared for the smaller retailer and offers some basic guidelines that will help ensure you weather any economic store.  After you read it, you may reevaluate your business processes and find some flaws in your approach.  An eye-opener for the smaller retailer.  Download now.

KPI Strategy

Every Retailer Needs a KPI Strategy:  Part 1,
the Big Questions

In Part 1 of a 3-part series:  Every Retailer Needs a KPI Strategy:  The Big Questions:  we will talk to the critical key performance indicators (KPI) a retail business owner needs to know to run a retail operation successfully.

How would you answer these questions:

    • What is your single biggest opportunity to improve profit this month?
    • Which products are the 10 top sellers that are most likely to go out of stock before your next re-order?
    • Which items in each of your stores have the biggest impact on sales of other products.

Read the in-depth white paper and sign up for the soon-to-be-released KPI Strategy:  Part II:  Tactial KPIs and Part III:  Strategic KPIs.  Download now.

tactical KPIs

Every Retailer Needs a KPI Strategy:  Part 2,
Tactical KPIs

In Part 1 of this three-part series we looked at the role KPIs play in answering the big questions successful retail companies ask themselves to achieve outstanding results. In Part 2, we examine the tactical KPIs these retailers focus on every day and every week. Download now.

kpi part 3

Every Retailer Needs a KPI Strategy:  Part 3,
Strategic KPIs

In this third installment of a 3-part series on KPIs, we show how strategic KPIs can point the way to long-term retail success. KPIs can be tracked in many retail point of sale solutions making it easier for senior management to create a KPI strategy from the top down. As a guideline, KPIs fall into two groups: semiannually or annually; they will be discussed in detail. Learn who should be taking ownership of the KPIs and, how do you know when your KPI strategy is working. Download now

numbers that matter in retail

How To Get To The Numbers That Matter In Retail

The objective of this white paper is to review various aspects of retail financial management and to draw important lessons for small and mid-size retailers. The paper addresses a wide range of topics that impact a retailer’s financial success. Many of these are common to retailers of all sizes, but some are specific to mid to small tier businesses and many cautionary notes are given. Download now

Best Practices for Retailers

Nitrosell Best Practices Guide for Retailers - Microsoft Dynamics RMS & POS 2009

This guide is designed to help Nitrosell customers review their web stores and optimize their online selling potential. Apply the best practice techniques that have been implemented by many of NitroSell's successful retailers.

These guidelines can make a huge difference in your web store's performance.  Download now.