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		<title>Creating Purchase Orders</title>
		<link>http://www.machsoftware.com/blog/2011/09/creating-purchase-orders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This MACH in a Minute episode takes you step-by-step through the process of creating purchase orders in the MACH Order Management System. ]]></description>
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		<title>How to Enter an Order</title>
		<link>http://www.machsoftware.com/blog/2011/09/presenting-mach-in-a-minute-how-to-video-segments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA['MACH in a Minute' is Data Management's video series focused on the needs of end-users. Each segment shows, step-by-step, how to perform specific tasks in the MACH Order Management System. We want to produce segments that help you maximize the benefit of the MACH system, so please post comments, questions, suggestions for topics, etc. below the videos. Here's ...]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networks are Sweet at Sweetwater</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guest today is Christopher Guerin, Director of Program Development at Sweetwater Sound Inc. Sweetwater has a very interestng past but their present and future are even more interesting. They are one of a very small group of multichannel retailers that are utilizing social networking technologies to build relationships with customers and prospects; ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[My guest today is Christopher Guerin, Director of Program Development at Sweetwater Sound Inc. Sweetwater has a very interestng past but their present and future are even more interesting. They are one of a very small group of multichannel retailers that are utilizing social networking technologies to build relationships with customers and prospects; <a href="http://www.machsoftware.com/blog/2010/06/social-networks-are-sweet-at-sweetwater/" class="more-link">...</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Marketing and Operational Excellence</title>
		<link>http://www.machsoftware.com/blog/2010/05/marketing-and-operational-excellence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 16:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guest today is Susan Rider. She's the owner and president of Rider &#38; Associates; a marketing and operational consulting agency founded in 1985 to serve distribution companies and multichannel retailers. She is currently the president of WERC, past chairman of LESA, and a frequent speaker at DC Expo, Georgia Tech, Frontline, NACDS, ProMat and ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[My guest today is Susan Rider. She's the owner and president of Rider &amp; Associates; a marketing and operational consulting agency founded in 1985 to serve distribution companies and multichannel retailers.

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		<title>Creating a Customer Focused Sales Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 18:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although there are many factors that contribute to a successful call center, none are more important than hiring the right people and training them in sales techniques and product/systems support. This episode is jam packed with solid insight and practical methods for getting these two key elements right. My guest is Penny Reynolds. She's a founding ...]]></description>
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		<title>PCI Straight Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 18:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) has been challenging IT and security professionals for the past several years. We may be familiar with the bad publicity a PCI incident or breach can cause; however case studies of success stories are hard to find. The industry has been evolving to make the enterprise and customer information ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) has been challenging IT and security professionals for the past several years. We may be familiar with the bad publicity a PCI incident or breach can cause; however case studies of success stories are hard to find. The industry has been evolving to make the enterprise and customer information <a href="http://www.machsoftware.com/blog/2010/05/pci-straight-talk/" class="more-link">...</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Direct Marketing and the Web</title>
		<link>http://www.machsoftware.com/blog/2010/05/direct-marketing-and-the-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 18:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catalogers have seen significant changes in their industry since the days of Sears &#38; Roebuck. As early as 1960, store credit &#38; credit cards opened up the telephone as an ordering channel. Now, the Internet and social networking technologies are making traditional direct marketing efforts less and less effective. This latest channel in the multichannel ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Catalogers have seen significant changes in their industry since the days of Sears &amp; Roebuck. As early as 1960, store credit &amp; credit cards opened up the telephone as an ordering channel. Now, the Internet and social networking technologies are making traditional direct marketing efforts less and less effective. This latest channel in the multichannel <a href="http://www.machsoftware.com/blog/2010/05/direct-marketing-and-the-web/" class="more-link">...</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>NEMOA Fall 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.machsoftware.com/blog/2010/05/nemoa-fall-20090/</link>
		<comments>http://www.machsoftware.com/blog/2010/05/nemoa-fall-20090/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 18:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theme for NEMOA this year was “Walk Away a Winner” and it was held at Foxwoods, the World’s largest casino, in Ledyard Connecticut. It seemed appropriate to be in a gambling hall talking about the New Direct Marketers (read “e-commerce”) and the coming demise of mail order catalog marketing. What we really found was that while paper ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The theme for NEMOA this year was “Walk Away a Winner” and it was held at Foxwoods, the World’s largest casino, in Ledyard Connecticut.  It seemed appropriate to be in a gambling hall talking about the New Direct Marketers (read “e-commerce”) and the coming demise of mail order catalog marketing.

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		<title>Advanced Reporting &amp; Data Analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.machsoftware.com/blog/2010/05/advanced-reporting-data-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well designed and well implemented operational systems help businesses run more efficiently and give end users easier access to order information. This enables them to provide a higher quality of service to their customers but it also means that the corporate system is gathering a lot of raw data. This podcast is an excerpt from a recent webinar about gaining insight into business operations by mining the data corporate systems are so good at collecting. Our guest is Fred Owen, President of MITS, a business intelligence and data mining software company based in Seattle.<!--more-->]]></description>
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