How Do You Communicate Your Business?

December 6, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, amidst rumors that Facbook was launching the “Gmail Killer”, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, introduced the Facebook messaging system. During his presentation, he stated that this was not necessarily going to replace email, but rather enhance email. Very quickly, the way that it works is that the Facebook Messaging service communicates with your [...]

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Going Paperless… Can it be Accomplished in Small Business?

November 8, 2010

If you are a subscriber to US News and World Report, you have no doubt gotten notice that the weekly magazine is going 100% digital rather than the traditional weekly print edition. So now to read your subscription of the magazine, you will need to, presumably, read it online, a special reader that they provide, [...]

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Social Media Isn’t Just for B2C

November 4, 2010

I was in a webinar yesterday regarding social media and social media marketing. I, like many of the attendees, was of the mindset that social media for business is more for B2C rather than B2B. Here’s a good video that proves otherwise.

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What Does Integrated Ecommerce Mean?

October 7, 2010

What does integrated mean? · Think of it as an extension to DistributionPlus · You have control of your website (item description, pricing, item images) · Customer specific pricing is honored on website · Customers know that they are a preferred customer on your site · Customer able to use their credit terms with you [...]

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Social Media… Are You On Board?

October 1, 2010

Businesses are going through a significant paradigm shift in terms of marketing, customer relations, sales, and ways that they interact within and outside of the business. Traditional communication methods such as telephone, email, and even snail-mail are not going away, but there is a large shift to social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) for regular [...]

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A Truly Integrated EDI Solution

September 27, 2010

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is one of those functions that is foreign to some, or very much in the forefront for others, in the distribution industry. EDI, as the term suggests,  is a means to transmit data or documents (purchase orders, advance ship notices, order receipts, invoices, etc.) from one entity to another. If you conduct business [...]

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CP Tech Announces First Completely Integrated Ecommerce Customer

April 6, 2010

Savage, Minnesota – March 29, 2010 – CP Tech announces its first completely integrated ecommerce customer. Screen Systems, Inc. now has an ecommerce site for its customers at www.screensystemsonline.com. The site is administered by Northwest Graphic Supply, the parent company of Screen Systems. All descriptions and pricing are controlled within the DistributionPlus enterprise system, meaning [...]

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Forrester Forecast: Online Retail Sales Will Grow To $250 Billion By 2014

March 9, 2010

An article on Tech Crunch sums up the Forrester Research forecast that ecommerce sales in the US will continue to grow at a 10 percent compound rate through 2014 to nearly $250 billion (up from 2009’s $155 billion). With a predicted 8 percent of all retail sales being conducted online by 2014, what does that [...]

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New Reporting Format in Next Software Update

March 1, 2010

CP Tech customers that are currently using the DistributionPlus software will soon be getting an update in the software. One change included in the update will be in the reporting: both in the functionality and the way that you can view it (the update will include a new browse to view your reports). There is [...]

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Is Your Website Credible?

February 11, 2010

With so much online scamming happening on today’s internet, how do you know visitors to your website or, more importantly, ecommerce site feel comfortable doing business with you? Unless your visitors have come to you from some sort of listing that also may grade your business based on customer feedback (example: Google Products), they may [...]

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