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The Association That Helps Manage Your E-Commerce Returns

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The rise of e-commerce has encouraged the growth of businesses around returns and logistics management, creating opportunities for middlemen and resellers to buy returned goods on the cheap and resell them at a profit to discounters. Previously, this might have meant products would go to firms like T.J.

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Membership Marketing Blog: Your Membership Value Equation

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Philip Kotler, Marketing Management, Prentice Hall; 11 edition (May 2002). Dues Discount. (4). Renewal Systems. (14). Value = Benefits / Costs = (Functional benefits + Emotional benefits) / (Monetary costs + Time costs + Energy costs + Psychic costs) 1. Tony Rossell. at Thursday, January 19, 2012. Email This BlogThis!