Collaboration, Task and Project Management Solutions | Connect by Mindjet. Roos Displays - Fixture Manufacturing Company. Excerpt: Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software Evaluation Report - Comprehensive Product Evaluations - The BrainYard. State of Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration Q2, 2011 - The BrainYard. Enterprise 2.0 People & Culture: HR Management Challenges & Opportunities - The BrainYard. Guide to Understanding Social CRM - The BrainYard. Enterprise 2.0: What, Why and How? - The BrainYard. E-commerce Platforms - Young & Reckless Reports Record Sales. (December 20, 20111 – Oakland, CA) -- Young & Reckless, the streetwear clothing brand created by Drama from MTV's Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory has reported record breaking web sales since signing with Sparkart Group, Inc., the Oakland based full-service independent digital agency.
Sparkart was brought in to design, develop, and manage Young & Reckless’ website (www.youngandreckless.com) which was launched in preparation for Cyber Monday. “It was our goal from the beginning to create a website for Young & Reckless that fully captures the brand unique aesthetic, works faster and provides a better shopping experience for their customers,” says Sparkart CEO and Founder Naveen Jain. Since our partnership began a mere month ago, we have seen an explosion in sales quadrupling each week – we must give credit to Sparkart making this happen,” says Young & Reckless’ MTV star, music producer and mini-mogul genius Drama.
December 2007 - Apparel & Accessories Bringing merchandise and the store to online shoppers. When it comes to categories of products sold, apparel & accessories is the biggest kid on the Internet retailing block. E-retailers in this category account for 80 of the top 500 retail web sites, according to the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. The category, however, also has one of the biggest hurdles on the web: merchandise that shoppers really like to feel, hold and try on, actions impossible to achieve via an Internet connection. But that`s not stopping the apparel & accessories e-retailers named to the Hot 100 from using web tools and technologies to come as close as possible to helping shoppers "feel" merchandise and have an online experience similar to one they would have in a store. Coach.com, for example, has introduced Try It Online, a site feature designed to help dampen worries shoppers have when purchasing a handbag online.
Shoppers can use the Try It Online feature to see where the bag falls on their body. Others notice it. December 2008 - Apparel & Accessories. The e-commerce sites featured in the apparel & accessories category of this year’s Hot 100 are as distinctive as, well, individual clothing buyers. And that’s a big part of what makes them successful. These are certainly not cookie-cutter sites. Put the retail sites of Anthropologie and Wet Seal up next to one another and the difference is night and day. The first sells with sophistication-employing luxurious images, a muted background conveying a dreamy feel and advanced technology such as a downloadable widget that spotlights the featured product of the day. The second sells with fun and social features, offering a fashion runway where shoppers can create, rate, share and comment on outfits and funky, hip copy.
Trying the test again with EddieBauer.com and Roxy.com, or Karmaloop.com and Gap.com, will produce similar results. So what’s the common thread that makes all these retailers Hot 100-worthy? Take Roxy.com. The site design is intentionally simple. - Hip-Hop Shop. If there were a contest to pick the edgiest retailer in the Internet Retailer Top 500, Boston-based Karmaloop LLC would surely win. Founder Greg Selkoe didn’t launch the online store because he liked retail or had any business experience-what he did have was a real passion for urban street culture. That passion sparked the formation of a start-up company in 2000 that Selkoe since has built into an established apparel and accessories e-commerce site with a big following among the young and uber-hip.
And though Selkoe and his team have poured heart and soul into Karmaloop.com, packing it with content and innovative features that keep its audience coming back to see what’s new with the genre’s celebrities and artists as well as clothes and gear, there’s still a small part of Selkoe that’s surprised his start-up, which initially sold just five brands of T-shirts and sweatshirts, has become a $40 million business. “It was a tiny little side project,” Selkoe says. Urban planning.
Catalogers - New Page For boo.com. Sportswear and streetwear online retailer boo.com will publish a spring/summer 2000 season catalog, called the "look book," which it claims marks the first time a "pure-play" apparel e-tailer has used an offline catalog in the U.S. to draw attention to online products. The catalog, which showcases 33 products on 44 color pages, will be printed in seven languages, says the New York City-based firm.
The book will be distributed in 15 countries through the mail to consumers, and at key fashion and Internet industry events. A toll-free number and an e-mail address connecting to the boocrew, boo.com's contact center, are included in the catalog to place orders via telephone and email. The retailer highlights merchandise in the catalog from labels such as Converse, New Balance, Puma, Helly Hansen, The North Face, Maharishi and Final Home. Items featured are representative of the boo.com merchandise mix for the season. Internet Retailer - Search Results for streetwear. / Press Release Avatar New York, Award-Winning Web Design and Technology Firm awarded JimmyJazz.com’s front-end technology and design project for Full-Feature Urban Fashion Site BROOKLYN, NY - [February 18, 2009] - For the latest in hip-hop and urban trends, people look to Jimmy Jazz for the hottest sneakers, clean-lined styles, and most up-to-date street fashions.
Jimmy Jazz offers the name brands that women, men and kids shop and now award-winning web design... Posted 02/18/2009 Avatar New York, Award-Winning Web Design and Technology Firm awarded JimmyJazz.com’s front-end technology and design project for Full-Feature Urban Fashion Site BROOKLYN, NY - [February 18, 2009] - For the latest in hip-hop and urban trends, people look to Jimmy Jazz for the hottest sneakers,… Related Searches:Jimmy Jazz. Decide.com: Online Shopping for TVs, Computers, Cameras & Electronics. E-Commerce Sales Are Booming, Thanks to Discounts and Free Shipping.
Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesAn Amazon fulfillment center. Online, at least, shoppers are spending money. Lots of it. People have spent $18.7 billion on e-commerce sites so far this holiday shopping season, 15 percent more than last year during the corresponding days, according to comScore. They spent $6 billion the week that ended Dec. 2, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and spent more than $1 billion on three separate days that week, after breaking the billion-dollar mark for the first time on Cyber Monday last year. But retailers are paying for the surge in spending by offering discounts and free shipping. They have offered free shipping, which Web shoppers have grown accustomed to, at record levels, comScore said. And many retailers extended their deals beyond Cyber Monday. Analysts caution that strong sales might not mean that shoppers will spend freely this year.
Though people are spending more money offline, sales at bricks-and-mortar retailers are not growing nearly as quickly. Top 500 - E-commerce sales jump 16% in 2011. U.S. e-commerce sales totaled $194.3 billion in 2011, up 16.1% from $167.3 billion in 2010, according to an estimate released today by the U.S. Commerce Department. The estimate, not adjusted for seasonality, show that e-commerce is taking a bigger portion of overall retail sales in the United States. 4.6% of total retail spending took place online during 2011, up from 4.3% in 2010, according to the Commerce Department. When excluding sales in categories not commonly bought online—automobiles, fuel, grocery and foodservice sales—Internet Retailer calculates that e-commerce accounted for 8.6% of total retail sales during the year, up from 7.6% in 2010. Total retail sales, which includes e-commerce sales, increased 7.9% in 2011 and totaled $4.2 trillion, according to the Commerce Department.
Seasonally adjusted, 2011 e-commerce sales were $193.4 billion and represented 4.6% of total retail spending. E-commerce’s strong fourth quarter helped drive this growth. Record Holiday 2011 Ecommerce Sales Impact by Online Marketing Technology. Philadelphia, PA (January 05, 2012)According to ComScore, online spending reached a record $35.3 billion this holiday season, a 15% increase over last year. At the heart of this surge in online sales lies Philadelphia-based Monetate, a leading provider of online marketing technology, which announced that its platform drove roughly 20 percent, or $168 million of the record-setting $816 million in Black Friday online sales.
As ecommerce companies increasingly look for ways to increase customer engagement and sales on their websites in a highly competitive online shopping environment, technology providers like Monetate play an essential role in helping to move the needle on sales. The significant adoption of Monetate’s platform signals the importance online retailers place on delivering a more engaging and relevant shopping experience to customers in ways that measurably impact website ROI. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works.
Business Models: The Forgotten Middle Children of Startup World. Share1 Share2 Tweet7 Share0 Share15 Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""><abbr title=""><acronym title=""><b><blockquote cite=""><cite><code><del datetime=""><em><i><q cite=""><strike><strong> 7Tweet 2Like 0pinterest. 8 Ways to Make Customers Love a Local Business. Published Nov. 10, 2011 Daniel Kehrer discusses why and how to make your customers love your business. Many local businesses are content if their customers seem “generally satisfied” overall. Others aspire to something more -- they seek the kind of passionate customer satisfaction that inspires glowing thank you letters and backyard fence comments like “My plumber (or dry cleaner, pet groomer, dentist, insurance agent, hair salon, etc.) is really great!
I highly recommend them.” If you suspect customers aren’t quite feeling that kind of love for your business, you’ve probably got some work to do. That’s because people who aren’t yet customers of yours might at least try you out in the future. Earning true customer loyalty – the kind that translates into recommendations and referrals – takes commitment, innovative ideas, energy and a little old-fashioned elbow grease. And lest we forget, customer “love” also translates into a better bottom line. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Business Plans & Financial Statements Template Gallery. Published May. 13, 2015 These tools can be your first step towards small business success. Find business planning, finance, sales, marketing, and management templates & guides then get advice from a SCORE mentor for one-on-one assistance along the way. Business Planning Templates Use the templates below, then meet with a SCORE mentor for expert business planning advice. Finance Templates Use the templates below, then meet with a SCORE mentor for expert finance advice. Marketing & Sales Templates Use the templates below, then meet with a SCORE mentor for expert sales advice. Management Templates Use the templates below, then meet with a SCORE mentor for expert management advice.
Have a question about small business planning? Sign up for SCORE Newsletters to get new and exclusive resources like this delivered to your inbox. About the Author Special thanks to the Seattle SCORE chapter, East Central Ohio chapter and other SCORE mentors for developing these user-friendly planning templates. Mentoring. New Resources to Sell and Source Overseas. In 2006, total sales were just $64,000 at Loudmouth Golf, a small golf clothing company based, well, nowhere in particular. (The company has no official headquarters; Founder Scott Woodworth still works out of his house in Sonoma, CA.) Now sales have topped $10 million at the 32-employee firm thanks to an approach of sourcing materials and selling finished goods globally. Loudmouth has clothing made in China and sells it in golf-happy countries all over the world. Employees are widely disbursed and all of them have Skype addresses on their business cards because international video calls are routine.
And Loudmouth isn’t alone. One major source of both money and advice is the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The two Ex-Im Bank products most used by small business exporters are export-credit insurance and working capital loan guarantees. The Export Business Planner, a free online tool developed by the U.S. The Export Business Planner can help with these key tasks: Resource Links for International Trade. Top 10 Tax Tips for Small and Growing Businesses. Published Jul. 31, 2011 Taxes are one of the most important issues facing small and growing businesses. And like a company's profits, its annual tax bill will in part reflect the owner's skills and knowledge. Business owners need to be sure that they are meeting all of their responsibilities to the tax man -- and also seizing every opportunity to reduce their taxes.
From the AllBusiness.com Finance & Accounting Center 1. Business losses. 2. Withholding. 3. Who should pay? 4. Having what is considered a "presence" in a state is the criteria used by the IRS to determine whether or not you are liable for paying state sales tax. 5. 6. If you want to get the maximum tax benefits, you should know these basic rules: Only contributions to charities listed as "qualified organizations" by the IRS are deductible. 7. Annual returns. 8. 9.
Correspondence Audit This is a relatively simple procedure in which the IRS asks you to document an item on your return by a specified date. 10. 10 Ways To Make Your Website Work Harder For You. Published Jul. 31, 2011 Your website's been up a couple of months and you haven't gotten a single sale you can trace to the website. What happened? What's wrong? What do you need to do to make your website start bringing you business? Here are several tips that will help you fine tune your site to make it a more effective marketing tool. You bit the bullet. But your site's been up a couple of months and you haven't gotten a single sale you can trace to the Web site.
Make Sure Your Site Looks Professional Take a hard, cold look at your site—or ask a friend who will be brutally honest to look at the site. First impressions matter on the Web, just as they do anywhere else. Don't Use the Name of Your Company as the Web page Title Every Web page has a windows-style title bar. That's not a good idea, however, unless the name of your business includes a descriptive term that someone looking for your services would search for to find what you sell. Marketing Matters: Marketing Advice for Local Business. BizBest - Business Made Better. ShopTalk: Social Media - Social Media Advice for Small Business.