Customer Summit 2008

  Advanced Retail Management Systems is excited to announce

Customer Summit 2008 -

Taking Your Business to a Higher Peak.

 Thursday June 26^th, 2008
9:00am-5:00pm
The Crystal Rose
8351 Southpark Lane
Littleton, Colorado 80120

 You are cordially invited to attend a *FREE day
of Retail Pro training sessions

  Join us for a full day of training sessions designed to enhance your knowledge of your Retail Pro Point of Sale and Inventory Control system. 

Five UniteU ^TM Clients Chosen in
Top 25 Outdoor Retailers 

Ecommerce platform from UniteU powers Outdoor Industry Leaders

Rochester, NY (March 26, 2008) - Ecommerce solution provider UniteU Technologies congratulates five of their customers who have been named to Outdoor Business magazine's 2007 list of the Top 25 Independent Outdoor Specialty Retailers.  

The five merchants include www.Neptunemountaineering.com and www.Outdoordivas.com, both based in Boulder, CO, www.Trailblazerdirect.com of Guilford, CT, www.Halfmoonoutfitters.com of North Charleston, SC and Metairie, LA based retailer Massey's Professional Outfitters who has five websites with UniteU that include www.MasseysOutfitters.com; www.TheFlipFlopper.com, www.800-SKI-SHOP.com and www.WeGotYourPack.com.

Outdoor Business magazine honors those retailers who "reflect the best practices in selling outdoor apparel and equipment, and participate in leadership roles in local, regional and national environmental initiatives." Their methodology for choosing the Top 25 honorees is "based on the Outdoor Business editorial staff's thorough review and analysis of outdoor specialty retailers, as well as input from Outdoor industry organizations, analysts, vendors, sales representatives and retailers." The Top 25 clearly understand that industry growth comes from reaching out to their own communities and introducing new people to the thrills of camping, hiking, paddling, climbing, snow sports and other outdoor pursuits. These 25 retailers embody the best of the Outdoor industry.

From Neptune Mountaineering's Accounting Manager, Roland Fortin, "Its our 35^th anniversary this year and we are very excited to be a part of the industry's top 25, and to have our new web store humming along for the 2008 season. The UniteU team has been great to work with.  The build and launch phases were seamless processes. The ecommerce integration between UniteU and our Retail Pro POS makes updating our web store a breeze. UniteU's staff took the time to show us the details of running our eStore. This has been a lot of work, but also fun and very educational. Before launching our web store with UniteU we knew nothing about running an ecommerce site. We have applied the training from UniteU and have had an amazing amount of success even before implementing our web marketing plan".

"We are proud to provide an ecommerce solution that meets the requirements of the top Outdoor Industry retailers," said Rebecca Ramme, VP of Sales and Marketing at UniteU. "Our customers drive our business, their success is priority one. We work in partnership with all our customers to help them attain their business goals. It's always rewarding to see our customers recognized as leaders in their industry." 

Meeting the demands of the rapidly changing ecommerce market requires fluid adoption of new web technologies and web marketing skills. Advanced capabilities such as filtered navigation search, product reviews and ratings and image enrichment along with web marketing services insure that UniteU customers stand out to the online shopper, thereby increasing online sales and converting the web site visitor into loyal, repeat online shoppers.

About UniteU
UniteU is a recognized leader in providing specialty retailers with ecommerce solutions that are powerful, yet affordable. UniteU's Connected Commerce® sites are scalable, support custom designs and integrate with back office systems such as Retail Pro and QuickBooks POS. All sites are controlled directly by merchants with opportunities for multiple payment options, configurable shipping, rich imaging and advanced promotions, navigation and in-site search capabilities. UniteU also offers premier managed hosting, leading web analytics tools and web marketing services that drive traffic and increase conversions. For more information, visit www.uniteu.com.

Media contact: Rebecca Ramme, VP Business Development 

www.UniteU.com- rramme@uniteu.com  - 866-786-4838 

Tech Tip 

Faster List View Displays

In large data files, List View will display fastest when record number is used as the sort column (Item # in inventory, document number in document areas, etc.). This is because the records are stored in that order in the data files. When sorting by other columns, the program must scan the entire file and reorder the records accordingly. It is recommended you normally sort by record number, switching to another column only when needed to search for a specific record.

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By Jenn Abelson
The Boston Globe
April 18, 2008

Sony wants to turn your tax rebate into a high-definition television. Home Depot has other plans for your check from Uncle Sam: help the Earth by spending it on energy-efficient appliances. And Sears is offering a gift card to customers for the amount of their rebate checks, plus a 10 percent bonus.

Merchants struggling with the slowdown in spending are stepping up promotions to court consumers who are expecting a cash infusion from federal rebate checks. Retailers are already planning major sales and big advertising campaigns in the fierce fight for dollars - even though the government won't start mailing out the checks until May. For merchants worried about a bleak year, this is like Christmas in spring.

Store owners have good reason to expect a shopping spree. People plan to spend 40.6 percent, or about $42.9 billion, of the $105.7 billion the government is distributing in tax rebates, according to a survey conducted in February by the National Retail Federation, a Washington, D.C., trade group. Consumers, besieged by soaring cost of gas and groceries and declining home values, plan to use about $30 billion to pay down debt and about $20 billion to put in savings, the survey found.

The tax rebate, part of a federal effort to boost the economy, will put $600 in the pocket of most individual filers, $1,200 for couples who file jointly, and an extra $300 per child for families. Only the wealthiest taxpayers will be excluded. The rebates are separate from tax refunds, which many filers have already received.

Retailers also hope the timing of the rebates, which will coincide with the summer selling session, will jump-start the economy, said Jon B. Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts. The beginning of any season is important because that's when the majority of consumers shop and when the margins are best for retailers because merchandise is not marked down, Hurst said.

"There is a lot of hope that the rebates, as well as the usual refunds, will spark increased consumer spending," Hurst said. "With two-thirds of the economy being represented by the consumer, and with confidence at low levels locally and nationally, this stimulus will be a shot in the arm for the industry."

Toni Williams, 47, of Mission Hill, has debated whether to use her expected $600 rebate for a vacation, a replacement washer and dryer, or a computer upgrade. For now, she's settled on a new laptop.

"I have an ancient desktop computer (circa 2000) and am looking forward to purchasing a laptop with my rebate and additional funds which I have saved," Williams said. "I wish I could take a nice vacation to visit friends in the southern part of the country instead, but the airline industry's tardiness and dysfunction leave me wary."Continued...