ETD: 791 E-commerce how-to; The Fingerprint As Password; Gifts & Decorative Accessories for June

[E-Tailer's Digest]

  E-Tailer's Digest --- Everything for the  Retailer
  Issue #0791                    June 3, 2004
  George Matyjewicz, Moderator         mailto:georgem at gapent.com
  Published by:  GAP Enterprises, Ltd.  http://www.etailersdigest.com
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   CONTENTS

  [1]  Greetings
  [2]  E-commerce how-to
  [3]  The Fingerprint As Password
  [4]  Gifts & Decorative Accessories for June

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  [1]  Greetings.
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Hi All:

I just realized we are coming up on another milestone - issue 800!  Six 
years and four months of steady publishing.  Amazing!  I want to thank you 
all for your help and support during these years.  It has been fun.

Today we have queries from new list members who seek help with new 
businesses.  I know we have all been through some of these issues, so how 
about helping with your expertise.  Giving back is a major part of success.

An administrivia note.  I will be in Europe the week of June 13-20 and will 
not be publishing E-Tailer's Digest.

Tell us about your business which will remain  for posterity at 
our  "Members: Who Are You?" site.  We just updated all those postings that 
we were delinquent with the 
updates.  http://etailersdigest.com/resources/members/index.htm And we have 
a form there for you to tell us about you.  As I said when I first proposed 
this idea, we have "known" each other for a long time, yet we often don't 
know anything about each other.   So, tell us who you are and what you do.

Now, let's get to everything for the retailer.

Sincerely


George Matyjewicz, PhD
Chief Global Strategist, GAP Enterprises, Ltd.
mailto:georgem at gapent.com
http://www.etailersdigest.com

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  [2]  E-commerce how-to
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In addition to our e-commerce issues from last issue, we have some queries 
from list members on starting a new e-commerce business.  Important 
questions which need out expertise.  How about comments from you?
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Articles on financial aspects of retail stores, i.e. number of turns, 
inventory levels, commission vs. salary for staff. Also information on what 
types of web site formats are successful in terms of selling retail products.

Carol Israel, President
American Country Collection

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Start-up Advice
Wholesale Sources

Jana Burkes
Eclectic Country Cottage

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Seasonal trends, buying trends, fashion trends

Lisa Reichman,
President & C.E.O.
December 2nd Corporation

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Shipping, customer service,& marketing ideas

Suzanne Leimer
President
Suzanne's Quilt Shop

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How to set up a e-business from scratch- legalities, the web site etc.

Kristin

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Financial analysis,business 
model,technology,strategies,competition,challenges,future prospects

renalss
South Africa

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Effective Ways of Marketing.


Danielle Diamond, Proprietor
Diamond Lingerie

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Information on trade shows, business trends etc.

L Beauchamp, Owner
Beauchamp at Co.
Portugal

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Vendors/Suppliers-as Competition Online--
Customer retention/loyalty
Service--The Extra Mile

Ron Carbello
JOhnny Mac's Sporting Goods

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More about start up "dos and don'ts"

Howard Koch
HK Consulting

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Continuing the issue in last digest...
 > 2. Back-end system.  What will you use to manage your business in the
 > warehouse or office?  I have seen many companies who failed because of

Metrics, Metrics, Metrics!

Measure what you can, correlate it with customer behavior.

Good research in retail stores means taping customers and analyzing their 
behavior in your store.

Good research in web stores means inspecting your logs every morning, 
trying variations on your pages, and seeing the responses. It's the same as 
using salon or department numbers on your print advertising to see which 
ads your customers respond to.

What works, works.  Finding it... that's what successful retailers and 
e-tailers keep working at.

The web, with your server logs recording every click on your site, is the 
best market research media anyone ever came up with!

It's the sort of stuff I do for clients...


-javilk-
    Today's Photo:  http://www.mall-net.com/today/
------------------- IMAGINEERING --------------------
--------------- Every click, a vote. ----------------
----- Do people vote for, or against your pages? ----
-- What people want: http://www.SitePsych.com/free --
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  [3]  The Fingerprint As Password
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 > The Biometric Password Manager from American Power Conversion plugs into
 > the USB port of your PC. It sits on the desktop and whenever a password
 > would be needed, you use a fingerprint to sign in. Software running on the
 > PC associates the fingerprint with the user name and password and
 > automatically enters them both and signs in the user.

In order to do that, it has to remember, via software and disk space on 
your PC, what your passwords are.  So a smart hacker now has more 
information available to him via his viral proxies -- not only the 
passwords, but ALL the accounts you have!  Right in one juicy place ripe 
for picking...

-javilk-
    Today's Photo:  http://www.mall-net.com/today/
------------------- IMAGINEERING --------------------
--------------- Every click, a vote. ----------------
----- Do people vote for, or against your pages? ----
-- What people want: http://www.SitePsych.com/free --
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  [4]  Gifts & Decorative Accessories for June
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The face of American Style in home decor is changing as manufacturers work 
to attract a new generation of consumers, writes editor Bessie Nestoras in 
the cover story of the June issue of Gifts & Decorative Accessories. Part 1 
of our fifth annual Retailer Comparison Survey, "Today's Gift Retailer," 
highlights the products retailers are selling, their best-selling price 
points, and where they source their merchandise. In "Great American 
Grillin'," editor Caroline Kennedy heads out to the barbecue grill to 
report on what's cooking in gourmet goods. Editor Meredith Schwartz 
presents an exclusive eBay survey that dissects two types of collectors in 
"The Accidental Collector." And we continue with the final five winners of 
the 2004 Industry Achievement Award (the first five appeared in the May 
issue). All this, plus much more in the June issue of Gifts & Decorative 
Accessories.

Quinn Halford, Editor In Chief
Matthew Kalash, Editor
http://www.giftsanddec.com

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