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Joe Dager (Premium Author) - Click Here To Read Joe's Articles - Joe Dager is President of Business901, a
progressive coaching company providing
no-nonsense direction in areas such
as Lean Six Sigma Marketing and
organized referral marketing. What others
say: In the past 20 years, Joe and I have
collaborated on many difficult issues.
Joe’s ability to combine his
expertise with “out of the
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John Clark - Click Here To Read John's Articles - A master of freebies marketing for
retail / consumer packaged good companies.
Writing about how free sample marketing
can revolutionize retail / CPG companies
digitally. Looking to try your own free sample
marketing campaign? Contact us.
Nilesh Shah - Click Here To Read Nilesh's Articles - Nilesh Shah
nileshshah@rancelab.com
Over 10 years of experience in the field
of software development, sales and
marketing. He has assisted over 500
Retailers and Restaurateurs in
implementing the Retail and F&B
software with barcode & pos hardware
for their business. He holds a designation
of Director, Marketing in Rance Computer
Pvt Ltd. He holds the certification from
Microsoft Corporation and NIS. His current
research focuses on developing and
implementing intelligent retail systems
that shoulders the responsibility of an
entrepreneur. With such system, he is
helping Retailers and Restauranteurs in
focusing more on business expansion than
of day-to-day complex operations.
Click here to visit FusionRetail Blog.
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Will Atkinson - Click Here To Read Will's Articles - Will Atkinson has spent his entire career
dealing directly with small retailers to
solve their technology problems,
especially point of sale and inventory
control issues. Will manages CAP Software,
a specialty POS software company dedicated
to providing the finest in retail POS
applications for small and medium
retailers. Learn more about CAP at
www.capretail.com or contact me at
will@capretail.com. His expertise extends
to customer service issues, usability and
workflow properties, and other retail best
practices. Will helps retailers understand
business problems in order to provide a
solution that saves time and money,
commodities that are limited for everyone.
Dennis Sellers - Click Here To Read Dennis's Articles - Dennis Sellers had covered the tech
industry for almost 20 years. Currently,
he's the editor and publisher of Macsimum
News.
Gold Authors
Scott Kreisberg - Click Here To Read Scott's Articles - Scott Kreisberg is a pioneer in being the
first in selling point of sale software
systems to retailers in the 80’s
when they were still using cash registers,
and first-handedly changed the face of
retailing. His journey to shift retailer
misconceptions about using a computer in
their retail business and point of sale,
was a long one and today Scott’s
company, One Step Retail
Solutions, has transcended the retail
service industry becoming the leading
retail technology service provider in the
U.S. Scott has watched the economy hit 3
major slumps and a vast majority of his
clients survived those economic downturns.
Now, he’s taking his clients through
the next economic disaster. Scott is also
host of Internet TV series, "Smart
Retail" on the Internet channel
http://smartretail.tv.
Janet Dean - Click Here To Read Janet's Articles - Author and consultant, Janet Dean is a
unique and distinctive authority in the
field of personal, professional and
organizational optimal performance - and
the maximizing of people power! Janet
combines her unique background in
marketing, personal and corporate learning
theory and organizational behaviour to
help clients identify and implement
creative, performance-oriented solutions.
Janet also advises start up small business
and beginning entrepreneurs. Janet and her
company currently provide training and
professional development locally in Canada
and internationlly in China, India and the
Middle East.
Janet is the President of Advance
Corporate Training and Development Ltd.
(www.actraining.com) a successful training
and consulting company founded in 1990.
Claudio Cipriani - Click Here To Read Claudio's Articles - Claudio Cipriani is a registered insurance
broker that represents:
Several property and casualty insurance
companies through the offices of Mitchell
Sandham Insurance Services
Desjardins Financial Security, Great West
Life, Empire Life, Manulife and other
carriers through Mitchell Sandham
Financial Services.
I hold my BA in Sociology from University
of Western Ontario, graduated top of the
class in the RIBO level 1 licensing course
and holds his full LLQP Life License,
regulated by the Registered Insurance
Brokers Association of Ontario & the
Financial Services Commission of Ontario
and is trained by Cookston-Walker as a
Commercial Insurance Producer.
Using my extensive and ongoing training in
business insurance, life insurance and
insurance strategies, I am committed to
providing tips, advice, and explain more
complicated concepts to you in real life
scenarios so that you can better
understand the insurance world and your
own insurance policy
Linda Cahan - Click Here To Read Linda's Articles - Linda Cahan is an internationally
recognized expert in Visual Merchandising
for all types of retail stores. She has
been working in VM since 1971 and has
worked with all types and sizes of
retailers from American Express, Lancome,
United Rentals, Meijer, Saks Fifth Avenue
to independent smaller retailers. She has
experience with everything from fashion to
computers and tools.
Linda specializes in training retailers in
all aspects of visual merchandising as
well as giving seminars and consultations.
She consults regarding store design and
renovations as well.
Linda has authored over 300 articles for
retail magazines on VM as well as two
textbooks. Her most recent book is 100
Displays Under $100. "Feng Shui
for Retailers" was published by ST
Publications in 2004.
Linda lives in West Linn, OR and teaches
VM & Display at The Art Institute of
Portland. She can be reached by:
ph: 503-638-6727 (Pacific time)
lindacahan@frontier.com,
www.lindacahan.com
Drew Goldbaum - Click Here To Read Drew's Articles - My name is Drew Goldbaum and I am the
Director of Operations for Bank Associates Merchant
Services. BAMS is an ever-growing
merchant services provider with extensive
experience in the credit card processing
industry. Our corporate headquarters is
based in the business center of the world
– New York City – allowing us
to stay one step ahead of our competitors
by offering the most up-to-the-minute
electronic payment solutions.
We can seamlessly provide you with: Retail Credit Card
Processing, eCommerce Processing with
Internet Gateways
& Virtual Terminals supporting all
major credit and debit cards. Bank
Associates Merchant Services provides eCommerce processing
and online merchant accounts. Enable your
business to accept payments through a
variety of payment gateways and
online payment services. If you are
looking for quality, reliability and
technological support, BAMS is the right
credit card processing
services provider for your
business.
Silver Authors
Brett Lipton - Click Here To Read Brett's Articles - Brett Lipton is the President & CIO of
Castle Rock Agency, Inc in NY
http://www.castlerockagency.com/
212-360-2335
info@castlerockagency.com.Like us on
Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/CastleRockAgency<
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Campbell Corser - Click Here To Read Campbell's Articles - SmartCompany is a completely free news,
information and resource site for
Australia's entrepreneurs, small and
medium business owners and business
managers to help keep them ahead of their
competition. Our writers have many years
of experience reporting for Australia's
best newspapers and magazines including
BRW and The Australian Financial Review.
Contributors include Australia's top
entrepreneurs, experts and advisers.
Every Monday to Friday,
SmartCompany.com.au posts a daily news
briefing, a round-up of business trends
and ideas from around the world and
SmartBlogs from SmartCompany's handpicked
network of expert bloggers.
SmartCompany.com.au profiles the views of
Australia's best business experts -
exclusive content including features on
big issues for small and medium business,
case studies, profiles as well as podcasts
of the country's most successful
entrepreneurs, tax and legal updates,
personal finance and businesses for
sale.
Fred Tarasoff - Click Here To Read Fred's Articles - FJ Tarasoff is considered a leading
authority in retail loss prevention and
has been featured in numerous newspapers
and magazines including Globe and Mail,
Small Business Report, Grocer and Hardware
Mag. etc. He has more than twenty five
years experience in retail and understands
the cost of retail theft. In 1989 a record
store he owned went under in a large part
due to shoplifting. A few years later he
was physically attacked by a shoplifter
while managing a health food store. These
two events inspired him to research and
develop various training programs to
better prevent, detect and deter both
internal as well as external theft. For
the last decade Tarasoff worked closely
with law enforcement, security companies,
trade associations as well more than 250
shoplifters were interviewed in order to
better understand theft and how to best
reduce theft.
Roland Petrov - Click Here To Read Roland's Articles - Roland Petrov was born in England,
completed junior high school in Ethiopia,
high school in Lebanon, and he received
his BA from The University of the State of
New York. He worked as a teacher in
California, Bolivia, Honduras, and Japan.
He is a graduate of Sclafani's Cooking
School in Louisiana, and he worked as a
chef for a catering company in California
prior to setting up a beachside restaurant
in Panama. His world travels have given
him a wealth of experience and a thorough
knowledge of a wide range of e
xotic teas. He has now
settled on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound
and has opened a tea shop called Tea &
Treasure.
Michael Steg - Click Here To Read Michael's Articles - Michael Steg is the Managing Director of
Tri-City Retail Systems, a Gold Certified
Microsoft consulting firm specializing in
implementing management systems for retail
companies of all sizes. After working
with hundreds of retailers for over 20
years, Michael has learned what it takes
to operate a successful retail business.
In addition, he has witnessed a great
number of mistakes that retailers make
that significantly impact their ability to
succeed in the competitive retail
industry. Over the years, Michael has
translated these lessons into hundreds of
individual notes that he draws from in
order to compile brief, information-packed
articles. If you are an independent
retailer looking for ways to gain
efficiencies and improve the profitability
of your business, stay tuned for real
world retail advice from Mike.
Bob Phibbs - Click Here To Read Bob's Articles - Best-selling author and speaker Bob
Phibbs, the Retail Doctor, has helped
thousands of independent businesses
compete by using his sales approach and
not discounting. His Book, You Can
Compete: Double Sales Without Discounting
was the backbone of Do It
Best’s How To Beat the
Big Box Kit. A frequent guest on
MSNBC’s Your Business,
his newest book, The Retail
Doctor’s Guide to
Growing Your Business can be pre-ordered
now at http://www.retaildoc.com/guide. For
more information on Bob, visit
http://www.retaildoc.com.
Rick Segel - Click Here To Read Rick's Articles - Rick Segel is a retail expert and the
author of thirteen books, including two
editions of the best selling Retail
Business Kit for Dummies which has sold
over 100,000 copies and is translated into
7 languages. Rick's number-one selling
book (in its seventh printing) is Laugh
& Get Rich, co-authored with Darren
LeCroix, a past International
Toastmaster's Speaker of the Year
award winner. Rick is a Certified Speaking
Professional, has spoken in 49 states, on
five continents, with over 2,100
professional presentations. The most
common words used by audiences are, "We
have never learned so much and laughed so
much." The philosophy that integrates fun,
humor and playful behavior is critical in
today's highly stressful business
environment. To learn more about Rick's
powerful programs and to download free
retail resources, visit www.RickSegel.com.
Harry J. Friedman - Click Here To Read Harry's Articles - HARRY J. FRIEDMAN
Founder/CEO, The Friedman Group
Harry J. Friedman, former owner of two
chains of retail stores, is an
international retail authority, best
selling author, consultant, and the most
heavily attended speaker on retail selling
and operational management in the world
today.
In 1980, he founded The Friedman Group,
which now maintains offices in 12
countries and is continuing to expand its
reach internationally.
Mr. Friedman continues to be at the
forefront of change on the retail sales
floor, traveling the world looking for and
creating the latest retail sales and
management processes. His groundbreaking
high performance training systems have
been used by over 500,000 retailers, both
large and small, to routinely deliver more
sales.
Considered by many to be one of retail’s
best friends, he is still outrageous,
controversial and just plain Harry.
(More on Harry J. Friedman:
http://www.thefriedmangroup.com/1_1.htm
Richard Gordon - Click Here To Read Richard's Articles - Rich Gordon is a respected and successful
retailer, author and consultant with
close to 40 years of sales and retail
management experience, and over 24 years
of direct retail experience. His
experiences have taken him through a
variety of retail management,
merchandising, design, training and buying
roles working in the Fortune 500 world,
consulting with retail stores and the
creation and building of his own retail
business.
He truly has been in the trenches and
worked with everyone from small business
owners, friends, relatives, and students
to senior corporate management, through
times of great pride, tears
, fears, panic and yes, a great deal of
fun and personal satisfaction.
In 1974, Gordon left the University of
Missouri to accept an entry-l
evel management position with Venture
Stores, a former division of May Company
(St. Louis, MO). At the age of 21, he was
chosen to start an experimental department
for the major mid-west mass merchandiser.
After almost 10 years with Venture Stores,
Gordon found himself accepting an offer to
leave Venture and work for one of the
original Apple computer rep organizations
who served as Apple’s
marketing and sales arm during the
company’s early years.
In his four plus-state territory, Gordon
was available to all of the Apple
retailers to improve merchandising and
other retail issues including advertising,
co-op money, training and store design.
While serving in this capacity, Gordon
helped introduce the original Macintosh
and Apple 2C computers to dealers.
Gordon also started his own specialty
store operation, retailing and
manufacturing gourmet popcorn, along with
fine candies and high-quality ice cream.
His stores became the dominant retailer in
his market, and catered to major area
corporations including McDonnell Douglas,
Southwestern Bell, Tubular Steel, Turley
Martin, the Fox Theatre, Schnucks,
Dierbergs, and many others. His products
became a popular gift item for area
celebrities and business owners.
Benjamin Jones - Click Here To Read Benjamin's Articles - Excerpt from Jones Commercial:
"From an early age Ben was immersed in
property working for both his father who
is a Property Developer, and his mother
who is a Bayleys Real Estate Branch
Manager. His lifelong exposure to property
is the cornerstone of Ben’s expertise and
has helped shape him into a highly skilled
and knowledgeable Commercial Agent. This
coupled together with Ben’s natural
oratory flair and commercial business
mindset has been the hallmark of his
results driven performance."
Shriram Sanjeevi - Click Here To Read Shriram's Articles - “A Retailer by Profession and
Choice” as he loves to call himself,
Shriram is indeed a passionate Retail
Manager. He has been part of the mainline
Retail Industry in India over the past 10
years and has extensive experience in
various formats. Shriram has a Graduate
Degree in Commerce & Economics, Post
Graduation in Business Administration,
Post Graduation in International Business
and has had his Executive Eductaion at
IIM-Bangalore. He also lectures at
B-Schools over the weekends and writes
columns and articles for several
publications.
Bronze Authors
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Richard Cuttler - Click Here To Read Richard's Articles - Richard Cuttler has spent his entire
career dealing with retailers, acquirers
and issuers to help solve their technology
issues, particularly related to point of
sale and retail payments. Currently,
Richard is responsible for marketing at
STJ Retail, an international provider of
integrated EMV (Chip & PIN) compliant
retail payment solutions. He is
considered a leading authority on EMV and
has been featured in numerous magazines
and newspapers including a recent article
for Retail Solutions Online.
Richard CuttlerSTJ RetailTel:
905.851.6600 Ext. 153Fax:
905.851.1298rcutt
ler@stjretail.comwww.stjret
ail.com
Ty Hardison - Click Here To Read Ty's Articles - Twenty years of payment industry
experience. Areas of expertise include
merchant services, Interchange and
compliance, payment technology and
applications for credit, debit, check
services, gift cards, pay cards, EBPP and
trade credit outsourcing and financing.
Yuri Bolotin - Click Here To Read Yuri's Articles - Yuri Bolotin is a Principal of Design
Portfolio, one of Australia’s leading
specialist retail, hospitality and brand
design companies.
Design Portfolio’s primary objective is to
help their clients build better businesses
through unique, marketing-driven retail
design and brand design concepts that
combine interior design, brand design,
graphic design, web site design and other
elements.
Over the past 22 years and while being
involved in over 750 projects, the company
developed a unique Design Portfolio
Method© and produced designs that have had
a direct effect on improving their
clients’ performance and returns on
investment.
Design Portfolio’s projects are in many
locations in Australia, as well as in
China, USA and New Zealand.
Yuri Bolotin has published many articles
on retail design, addressed conferences,
conducted educational seminars and does
consultancy work on the improvement of
retail business for retailers.
Bob Nelson - Click Here To Read Bob's Articles - Bob Nelson is President
of POWER Retailing. As a former store
owner, he understands the problems faced
by those struggling to operate profitable
retail operations. His career
exceeds three decades of identifying
specific business needs and finding the
right solutions. Bob's customer-winning
strategies help retailers maximize sales
and profits while minimizing costs.
www.powerretailing.com
Patty Jensen - Click Here To Read Patty's Articles - JDA is a retail focused graphic design
firm specializing in consumer electronic
products that require branding at retail
with packaging, POP, collateral,
promotions, sales training and interactive
materials. Unlike other graphic design
agencies, we focus on the consumer
electronic channel and brand the product
from the time the customer is researching
on the internet to the moment they take
the package home. Our client's products
stand out in a competitive environment and
are recommended to other customers.
Laura Gonzalez - Click Here To Read Laura's Articles - RETAIL TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS (RTE), based in
Miami Lakes, Florida, specializes in
providing Point Of Sale and Inventory
Management solutions to retailers in the
U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. With
branch offices in Columbus, OH,
Minneapolis, MN, and San Diego, CA, RTE
has more than 25 staff members with
various backgrounds and expertise in
retail operations, merchandising,
marketing, technology, and customer
relations. We can help you increase the
effectiveness and profitability of your
retail business by teaching you how to tie
together the power of technology with your
retail operations. Please visit us at
www.retailtechnologyexperts.com or reach
us by phone at 800-513-5917.
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