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Benchmark Financial Ratios for 50+ Retail Segments

The Retail Owners Institute site provides key financial performance data for 50+ different retail segments, from hardware stores to bookstores to clothing stores to furniture stores, and more.  The Institute highlights six key ratios: inventory turnover, gross margin, profit, debt-to-worth, current ratio, and return on … Continue reading

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Why Online Merchants Need to Measure Lifetime Value

As Daryl Logullo reports: “The E-commerce world is blistering with metrics such as average order value, conversion rate, customer acquisition growth rate, return on advertising spending, etc. Gathering this data from your analytics packages will quickly make you feel like … Continue reading

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Secrets to Closing the Sale before the Customer Checks Out of Your Web Site

There are several articles in this special report from FierceContentManagement Custom Publishing. Click the image to learn more.

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