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		<title>Reflections on the 2010 IMA Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
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I budget a lot of money on seminars every year, I feel my education  is important to me and my business. Although IMA is fairly a new trade  association, I continue to be impressed with the conferences that is put  on. This year&#8217;s conference, which I&#8217;m still thinking about, was no exception.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 6 Reasons for E-Commerce Merchandise Returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Pat
It&#8217;s a cost of doing business and a headache for a lot of online sellers: accepting merchandise returns.
There are valid reasons that we get returned merchandise from our online customers, but there are some times that costly returns can be avoided or prevented.
According to a recent Distribution Center Operations Report from The Supply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMA Member Spotlight: The Gentle Bath &amp; Company</title>
		<link>http://imamerchants.org/blog/ima-member-spotlight-the-gentle-bath-company/</link>
		<comments>http://imamerchants.org/blog/ima-member-spotlight-the-gentle-bath-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shonali</dc:creator>
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Brenda Collins owns The Gentle Bath &#38; Company, and is a textbook case study in branding and marketing an e-commerce business. We sat down and talked with her.
How and why did you start selling online?
Before launching my business, I was an RN. I suffered an injury which forced me to &#8220;retire&#8221; from nursing, so to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMA Announces 3rd Annual Conference Agenda</title>
		<link>http://imamerchants.org/blog/ima-3rd-annual-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thinking Outside The Box]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ActionBlox]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Endicia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet Merchants Association has announced their conference agenda for 2009 in Las Vegas, NV in conjunction with the ASD/AMD Trade Show.  There is still plenty of time to register, so be sure to go to www.imalasvegas.com right now and get signed up. You do not want to miss this conference packed full of information for increasing your online sales!

AGENDA: Updated 3/11/09

NOTE – The IMA is still adding more speakers, so times and speakers are subject to change.  In addition to the agenda below, there will be a Networking Suite open at Bally’s on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights where you can meet the speakers and ask more questions!

March 16-18 Internet Merchants Assn. Las Vegas register @ , www.imamerchant.org &#038; www.imalasvegas.com Don’t miss out – Register TODAY!]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Your Business Goal For 2008?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like individuals who make New Year’s resolutions, most business owners take time to set new goals and/or revise old goals at the beginning of each year. As more and more consumers and sellers become comfortable with ecommerce, merchants are branching out and adopting a multichannel selling approach, whether branching out to sell on Amazon (or another site or sites) in addition to eBay or whether opening a brick and mortar or starting up their own website.

One of IMA’s most recent polls asked sellers what their business goals were for 2008. The poll choices were:

Expand into other online selling venues

Expand current product line/number of listings

Add new products to business

Open up or expand brick and mortar retail store]]></description>
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		<title>Be Notified When Your Website is Linked To &amp; Indexed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secrets to Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn’t it be nice to be automatically notified when your website has a new page indexed in Google, or when someone links to your site? Well this is very easy to do using the Google Alerts Beta! Here are the instructions for setting up a site wide Google index update Alert and a site wide [...]]]></description>
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