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The high(er) cost of business online
News Some banks are charging dot-coms up to $1 more per transaction than their brick-and-mortar cousins to process credit card purchases, a Gartner Group survey has found. Several dot-com retailers disputed the findings, saying privately that they pay...
[July 20, 2000, 9:07]
IBM IT Service Management Solutions for Retail
White Papers Brick-and-mortar businesses have been revolutionized by formulas for retail success that have changed the game substantially, not only for retailers but for their suppliers as well. Some have succeeded in balancing brick-and-mortar with online or...
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
African Banks and MNO:Same road different destinations
Blog The Banks are still trying to lure people in through their gates by offering lots of Innovative services that can deliver value to customers but the reality is, this ends where the Brick and mortar branches exist.
[May 15, 2009, 14:42]
Online retailers fumble on customer care
News Online-only retailers fared slightly better at responding in the first six hours than did brick-and-mortar operations, but were less responsive overall. Forty percent of online-only retailers took more than three days to respond or did not respond...
[January 4, 2002, 6:31]
Can Mobiles Benefit Nigerian Micro Finance Banks?
Blog Mobile Banking and mobile money is the easiest route to go for any growth oriented MFI in Nigeria with wide disparate demographics and prohibitive cost for Brick and mortar Branch roll outs. Using Mobile Phones, the MFI’s can develop independent...
[May 13, 2009, 9:37]
Can Mobiles benefit Nigerian Micro Finance Banks?
Blog Mobile Banking and mobile money is the easiest route to go for any growth oriented MFI in Nigeria with wide disparate demographics and prohibitive cost for Brick and mortar Branch roll outs. Using Mobile Phones, the MFI’s can develop independent...
[May 5, 2009, 8:47]
E-tailers face new rules, but same holiday rush
News And while growth is expected to continue, no one thinks that brick-and-mortar retail will be replaced with Internet-only shopping any time soon. Still, the numbers have piqued the interest of brick-and-mortar players, several of whom jumped into...
[July 10, 2000, 14:32]
Singaporean online university opens doors
News Key success factors that the venture hopes it has in its favour: they think they are doing it bigger, with more brick-and-mortar universities involved, than anyone else. Brick-and-mortar institutions can never cope with this demand," Srinivasan said.
[July 29, 2003, 13:52]
MSDN Architecture Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation in Retail and Hospitality (Level 200)
White Papers Workflow, rules, and communications are both omnipresent and critical in the retail and hospitality industries, whether it is the checkout process in a brick and mortar store, or the check-in process at a hotel; the calculation of tax or loyalty...
[December 14, 2007, 0:01]
Extended Validation Green Address Bar Means Safety to Customers and Increased Sales to eVitamins
White Papers Unlike others in the industry who have relationships with only a few suppliers, eVitamins works with over 300 vendors and offers more than 10,000 products - at prices 20% to 70% below brick-and-mortar retail stores.
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
Viral Marketing Best Practices
White Papers The focus of this white paper is not on brick and mortar viral marketing programs, which are necessary, but rather on the ingredients required for formalizing and automating the online viral marketing process, and particularly, in corporate web...
[May 15, 2008, 1:01]
Digital Audio Essentials: Setting Up an Internet Radio Station
White Papers Unlike brick-and-mortar radio stations, Internet radio stations are not limited by geography, and they do not require FCC licensing. The Internet and compressed audio formats such as MP3 are a match made in radio heaven.
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Kiosks and Mobile POS Technologies: Emerging Channels in Integrated Marketing Strategy
White Papers Well planned self-service technology-enabled channels align customer experiences across brick-and mortar, catalog, kiosk, online and mobile touch points. A kiosk implementation is one of the most multi-disciplinary projects an enterprise can...
[January 14, 2009, 4:56]
The Power of Retail Self-Service Solutions
White Papers These advances have enabled a new and powerful channel for customer interaction with the business past pure brick and mortar, by enabling customers to use voice communications to obtain service and make transactions around the clock.
[June 7, 2006, 1:00]
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 for Retail Businesses: Bringing the Security, Agility, Reliability and Lower Costs of Linux to the Retail Industry - From the Point of Service Device to the Data Center
White Papers From brick-and-mortar stores to pure-play Web outlets, retailers are using Linux to improve operations, extend customer services and lower costs. Profit margins are thinning due to competition from mega-retailers, such as Wal-Mart and Target.
[September 1, 2009, 1:23]
PayGo SaaS
Downloads Integrate Your Web Site With PayGoCart - With today's technology, why should you have to have two separate ways of tracking your web site and your brick and mortar store? And if you have more than one store, PayGo SaaS easily handles gift...
[September 29, 2009, 18:49]
Amazon takes the festive prize
News Media Metrix termed brick-and-mortar sites "one of the biggest success stories" of the festive period. People are typing in the sites they know," said David Cooperstein, director consumer e-commerce at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass.will be...
[January 4, 2000, 8:39]
Online advertising starts to stabilise
News But although online companies claim they are making strides with traditional advertisers, some analysts disagree with what they are counting as traditional brick-and-mortar advertisers. He said two-thirds to three-quarters of all online ad...
[June 7, 2001, 14:41]
Continuing the legacy of 'The Long Tail'
News Even better, from the perspective of consumers, such services meant that there was much greater choice available online than could ever be found in brick-and-mortar stores. And where bricks and mortar inventories run out, the online inventory keeps...
[July 24, 2006, 16:45]
The Day Ahead: Will Amazon hit its sales targets?
News Brick-and-mortar retailers such as Home Depot are indicating that sales are slower than expected. After watching friends and relatives shop online, it's pretty clear that Eddiebaurer.com and catalog sites and some click-and-brick sites like Bestbuy...
[December 18, 2000, 13:37]
