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Platinum Authors |
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
box” thinking is unsurpassed. He has
always delivered quickly, cost effectively
and with ingenuity. A brilliant mind that
is always a pleasure to work with.”
- James R.
If you want to learn more about
Business901, start a conversation with us.
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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.
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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 300
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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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.
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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.
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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
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Silver Authors |
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.
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Drew Goldbaum (Premium Author) - Click Here To Read Drew's Articles - My name is Drew Goldbaum and I am the
Director of Operations for Bank Associates
Merchant Services: www.bams.com. Bank
Associates Merchant Services 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, E-Commerce
Processing with Internet Gateways &
Virtual Terminals supporting all major
credit and debit cards; Merchant Working
Capital to give your business a boost with
cash; ACH and E-Check Services to ensure
that you accommodate all customer payment
preferences; Gift Card Solutions to drive
traffic to your business, increase sales
and build brand awareness; ATM Machines
and ATM Service, as well as a wide variety
of Credit Card Terminals and POS Systems &
Software. The possibilities for growing
and expanding your business with BAMS are
endless. For a full-service electronic
payment solution, please visit us at:
www.bams.com
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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 "Feng
Shui for Retailers" published by ST
Publications in 2004.
Linda lives in West Linn, OR and can be
reached by:
ph: 503-638-6727 (Pacific time)
lindacahan@verizon.net
www.lindacahan.com
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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.
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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
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Richard Cuttler - Click Here To Read Richard's Articles - Richard Cuttler
STJ Retail
Tel: 905.851.6600 Ext.
153
Fax: 905.851.1298
rcutt
ler@stjretail.com
www.stjret
ail.com
STJ Retail
has been providing innovative solutions to
the retail marketplace for over 13 years
and has been an active member of the IBM
Retail User Group, presenting at
conferences on the topics of EMV, Chip and
PIN, and PCI compliance for the last three
years. STJ has extensive 4690 POS
development and support expertise and has
invested more than $6 Million in R&D
in the last 8 years. It has two leading
products: EFT Plus™ (addressing Chip
& PIN Compliance) and Appaloosa (a
browser based POS System).
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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."
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Mercedes Gonzalez - Click Here To Read Mercedes's Articles - Mercedes R. Gonzalez has been a buyer
in the garment industry since 1988. Her
passion for the industry started when she
was 14 years old and went to work every
summer for her uncle who owned and
operated a manufacturing company in the
heart of the garment district in New York.
After graduating from New
York University
where she earned her degree in
economics, she went back to work
full time with her uncle. She changed the
operation of the company by moving
production overseas, streamlining the
company and insuring a stronger bottom
line. Soon after Mercedes decided to try
buying and was hired by one of the largest
buying offices at the time,
Frederick Atkins. She had
participation in private label for such
stores as Dillard's and
Harvey Nickels of
England. She soon went to work at
one of the member stores Gonzalez Padin in
Puerto Rico and her love for international
trade grew. In the last 20
years Mercedes has worked with
some of the most important buying offices
in the country and has helped to open or
restructure hundreds of stores in the
United States and abroad, including the
inaugural Sears store in
Panama.
Regularly featured in industry
publications, such as Women's
Wear Daily, Mercedes also teaches
workshops on successful retailing at
industry trade shows such as MAGIC
and WSA and at regional markets
in Atlanta, California and
Dallas.
Websites:
www.globalpurchasinggroup.com
ww
w.justshopboutique.com
www.littleshopofretialhorrors.com
Twitter<
/a>: MERCEDESGPC
YouTube: NYFASHIONBUYER
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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.
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Bronze Authors |
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.
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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.
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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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