Without a doubt, BlueStar's VARTECH 2009 was the highlight of the summer for us. Many of you stopped by our booth and it was great to finally put a face to the name for some of you. Retail Hero had the opportunity of being interviewed for Business Solutions Magazine, and the interview can be found online.


View the video online on Business Solutions Magazine's website

We showcased our add-ons for RMS and received very positive feedback. It seems that there is a major push in the industry for more RMS specialization, and Retail Hero is gladly answering the call. Our RMS addons provide increased revenue for your customers by cutting management costs and increasing traffic:

• Q-Rewards allows rewarding loyal customers who continuously buy in the same families of products. Ideal for a "Buy 10 Bags Get 1 Free" program for Pet Food Stores and many other retail verticals.
• Hero Points is an effective program that is based on the "dollar value" that the customer spends at the store and automates the process of rewarding the buyer through discounts according to a customizable redemption schedule.
• Happy Checks is a unique customer loyalty add-on that prints redeemable coupons and mails them to customers once they spend a threshold amount.
• Catalog View is an extended graphical interface for RMS. All items, departments and categories are visualized on-screen as images with extras that make maintaining such an interface easy.
• And More add-ons are available on our website at www.RetailHero.com

As part of the show, Retail Hero participated in a social networking seminar, end therefore we just opened two new avenues for our Heroes to follow us. We are now using Facebook and Twitter to keep up with our friends.

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Retail Hero will help you sell more RMS licenses and make you more money. Here’s how:

As we talked to pet food retailers, the same issue kept popping up with them constantly: Their need for a loyalty program. Retail Hero learned to capitalize on this specific need, and now we want to help you do the same.

In pet foot retail, manufacturers promote buy 10 get one free programs, and if food retailers can prove that the same customer purchased the same brand of dog food a certain amount of times, the manufacturer would add a free bag of food for every X number of bags purchased. The pet food retailers were at a dilemma. They could capitalize on this never-ending promotion by painfully maintaining records of what each customer bought in a filing system, or they could bypass these headaches but miss out on increased business.

We came to the rescue with our Q-Rewards add-on for Dynamics RMS. This is our own loyalty plug-in that maintains records of customer purchases and prompts the retailer to award a free bag to loyal customers after they bought a preset number of bags. This add-on tracked all the information that the retailers needed in order to qualify for manufacturer discounts. With Q-Rewards, pet food retailers got increased business without all the hours of painful filing that usually came with such a program.

We had an astonishing closure rate from our list – topping out at 10%, and now we want to help you, our partners capitalize on this market.

Starting in October, Retail Hero and partners plan to do a nationwide campaign selling Top Dog POS – a software and hardware bundle tailored to pet food stores. We want you – an RMS VAR – in on this. We’ll organize the marketing and mailing for you and you get the leads that come out of this campaign.

The bundle will consist of approved hardware capable of handling RMS, Dynamics RMS software and Retail Hero’s Q-Rewards. As an RMS VAR, you’ll have the opportunity participate in this campaign. Your return on investment is expected to be between 10 and 90-fold over 24 months, with a high chance of a 100% return on investment in one month.

Each reseller partner that elects to participate will receive exclusivity on sales leads generated for their territory.

• Receive an exclusive protected sales territory
  
• Three direct mail pieces sent to approximately 1,000 pet food stores
  
• Gets list of contacts for phone call follow up
  
• All Sales Leads Directed to Reseller Partner
  
• Sell Private Branded RMS/Q-Rewards POS Solution
  
• Attractive Margins- typically 20-40%
  

To learn more about this possibility, contact Retail Hero today, and we will send you additional information about this opportunity.