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November Sales Show Some Improvement

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Monthly sales results for the companies tracked by Multichannel Merchant have been abysmal across the board this year. But November sales revealed partial improvement.

Bottom Line Way Up At Staples

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Third-quarter sales for catalog/retailer Staples fell 6%, to $6.5 billion for the three months ended Oct. 31. But net income soared 72%, to $269 million, up from $157 million for the same period last year.

The art of elegant merchandising

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When working on branding and merchandising, business leaders should spend a lot of time unpacking words. Everyone around the table in an organization

Bring on the new decade

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CONSIDERING THAT THIS PAST DECADE brought us two recessions, 9/11, the massive postal rate hike of 2007, the banking crisis of 2008 and unemployment rates

Essential Tools for SEO

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If the extent of your search engine optimization toolkit is the Google search box, with which you periodically check your search rankings, you’re in real

New Year’s resolutions for 2010

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Here’s hoping that 2010 will be a better year saleswise than 2009. To help you make sure it’s a good one, we present our fresh round of New Year’s resolutions

letters/opinions

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IN SOCIAL MEDIA, POINT OF VIEW EQUALS ROI Drew Neisser, founder/CEO of New York-based digital marketing agency Renegade, offers up three steps for social