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Sunday, June 26, 2016

The Criteo Report Part 3 Mobile Trends




The Criteo Report Part 3 Mobile Trends


Executive Summary

These trends and forecasts come from Criteo’s Q4 2015 State of Mobile Commerce Report, based on its unique pool of online shopping data.

Criteo’s analysis of shopping data from Q4 2015 demonstrates that mobile is an established channel for retail transactions in a world where mobile devices are at the center of the connected consumer.
As the fifth quarterly Mobile Commerce Report, this is the first report to analyze year-over-year growth in key verticals and devices as retailers shift to people-centric strategies.

To recap, in part one, we went over how that when it comes to device and transaction share with the U.S. retail market, Smartphones dominated the market in 2015. 60% of retail transactions belong to mobile compared to just 45% in 2014.

In part two of the series, we got a good look at the holiday sale period of 2015 and how mobile influenced shopping and sales.  52%HALF OF CROSS-DEVICE MOBILE TRANSACTIONS ARE A RESULT OF MOBILE-ONLY BROWSING

In part three, today we are going to take a look at what The Criteo Report says to us regarding apps and their influence on e commerce.


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Friday, June 24, 2016

Service Exports USA: A Growth Opportunity Section 2 Part 3


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A Continuation of the SBA's Export business Planner
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CREATING YOUR EXPORT PLAN

Export Readiness: Conduct an Industry Analysis


Last week we profiled your current business. You want to approach your export operations in the same way you would your domestic operations—using sound business fundamentals. Developing an Export Business Plan and subsequent Marketing Plan helps you assess your present market situation, business goals and commitment. This will increase your opportunities for success.

This week we start with doing an industry analysis. This industry review will enable you to capture the key aspects of your industry that will affect your exporting decisions.  ...



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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

A New Breed of Small Business Is Emerging


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Background: For the past year, SmallBusiness.com has been exploring the topic of the emerging "on demand economy" a term coined to describe an app-enabled marketplace that instantly matches those who need a product or service with providers of such products and services.

The largest and most visible example of a real-time, on-demand marketplace is the ride-sharing company Uber. So many start-up companies are modeled after Uber (for markets other than ride-sharing) that tech and finance pundits refer to them as “Uber for X” businesses.

Other terms used to describe the on-demand economy, or facets of it, include the “sharing economy,” the “access economy,” the “gig economy,” the “1099 economy” and others.

Some of the biggest brands serving the small business market ...








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Saturday, June 18, 2016

A Shopping Revolution That Occurred In The Last Century


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In 1969, A&P was the largest food chain in the United States, and the chain’s sales were twice of their competitor, which was Safeway. However by 1978, Safeway was number one in sales and A&P had fallen to 3rd place behind Kroger. In the 80’s the company fell even further behind.

But before the demise of A&P, during its heyday, the company revolutionized the way the world did their shopping. “It allowed less wealthy households to show startling improvements in the quality of their diets.  And because many A&Ps were in urban areas, they were especially important to African-Americans, who faced steep prices at independent stores”.

Two childless brothers, George F. Gilman and George Huntington Hartford, in 1859 founded the Great American Tea Company in New York City. Their trade was tea that they bought from the cargoes of the clipper ships in the harbor.

Starting out as a mail order catalog, in 1868 coffee was added and soon the brand name, Eight O’Clock Coffee appeared. Eventually, spices and extracts were added to the catalog. By 1869 they had opened 11 stores and named that part of the company, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. The name, the Great American Tea Company was still used for the mail order catalog and its established wagon routes.


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In what was called an “economy store”, the brainchild of John Hartford, was opened in 1912. The economy store and those that followed were small and on secondary streets to avoid ...




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Monday, June 13, 2016

Service Exports USA: A Growth Opportunity Section 2 Part 2


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CREATING YOUR EXPORT BUSINESS PLAN
Export Readiness: Profiling Your Current Business



Keys to Your Export Success
As you begin to consider whether your products or services are well-suited for the international marketplace, use this checklist from the Small Business Administration as a starting point.
A business that can succeed in the export marketplace should be:
  • Successful in its present domestic operation.
  • Willing to commit its resources of time, people and capital to the export program.
— Entry into international markets may take as much as two years of cash outflow before generating a profit.
  • Sensitive to and aware of the cultural differences in doing business in other countries.

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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Mobile Commerce The Criteo Report Part 2




Mobile Commerce The Criteo Report

Part 2

Executive Summary

These trends and forecasts come from Criteo’s Q4 2015 State of Mobile Commerce Report, based on its unique pool of online shopping data.

Criteo’s analysis of shopping data from Q4 2015 demonstrates that mobile is an established channel for retail transactions in a world where mobile devices are at the center of the connected consumer.

As the fifth quarterly Mobile Commerce Report, this is the first report to analyze year-over-year growth in key verticals and devices as retailers shift to people-centric strategies.

To recap, when it comes to device and transaction share with the U.S. retail market, Smartphones dominated the market in 2015. 60% of retail transactions belong to mobile compared to just 45% in 2014.

Part 2, we begin with the holiday sales of 2015




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Monday, June 6, 2016

After The Inventory Count, What’s Next?




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Now the fun part begins. I am using a restaurant for this, but this method will apply to any. You can save yourself some money if you do these last steps before sending the information to your CPA. They will verify, record the numbers and then finalize your costs and percentages. Your Profit and Loss statement for that month will then be sent to you. You can have your CPA do it all, but be prepared to pay a handsome amount.

In your daily book work, the least you should be recording is:

  • Daily Sales
  • Total sales for the month
  • + or – over last year’s sales (up to that point)
  • Paid outs
  • Paid ins
  • Amount of daily deposit
  • + or – on cash
  • In the notes section, items on sale, the total for the daily costs for your sale items. And the ongoing total for the month
For example, The sandwich cost (on the menu) is $1.59 and the sale is $0.99 and you sold 88 for the day.
$1.59 – 0.99 = 0.60 x 88 = $52.80 for the day + whatever the running monthly figure is. (Food Cost is the reason)


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Saturday, June 4, 2016

Service Exports USA: A Growth Opportunity Section 2 Part 1



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Creating Your Export Business Plan


“The division between domestic and international markets is becoming increasingly blurred. In a world of nearly 7 billion people, technology-based commerce options, global communication networks and next-day air freight deliveries worldwide, it no longer makes sense to limit your company’s sales to the local or even the national market."

"In fact, your business cannot ignore these “borderless” realities if you intend to maintain your market share and keep pace with your competitors.”


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Getting Started:
I recommend printing off the worksheets to work on then posting it on the work sheets on the pdf. File or whichever is easiest

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> The Importance of Planning Export Readiness:
> Profiling Your Current Business Conduct
> An Industry Analysis Identifying Products With Export Potential Marketability
> Determining Your Expansion Needs Setting Your Export Goals