MSA Chapter Meeting Minutes Posted
from MSA
Minutes from MSA’s Florida and South Atlantic Chapters’ spring meetings have been posted to MuseumStoreAssociation.org. Go to the chapter home page and select your chapter from the pull-down menu to read them. More 
One New Position Posted to MSA’s Job Source
from MSA
One new position has been posted to Job Source – MSA’s online resource for the most up-to-date job listings in the cultural commerce industry. More
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The New Rules of Managing Innovation
from BusinessWeek
Let's talk about four trends that we see shaping innovation in the near term, and how you should respond. The rules of the game are changing quickly, and companies that take advantage of these trends give themselves an almost unfair advantage over the slow-footed or unaware. More
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New Orleans World War II Museum Finds Tourism Niche
from Lynchburg News Advance
With a day of events planned and more than 2,000 guests expected, the National World War II Museum 900 miles away in New Orleans simultaneously celebrated its own anniversary. Opened in 2000 as a D-Day museum, a year before the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, the museum now operates on an $10.8 million annual operating budget and has plans for a $300 million expansion. More
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Make Alternative Payments Work for Your E-commerce Site
from DMNews
With the new credit card bill potentially making plastic an option for fewer people — including those under age 21 and those without good credit — e-commerce retailers are offering more alternative payment methods, which are becoming more and more attractive when shopping online. There are a wide variety of options available, from online cash payment and billing services to prepaid cards, including eBillMe, Bill Me Later, PayPal, Bill2Phone and GreenDot. More
Web Design Tips: The Laws of E-commerce Navigation Design
from Practical Commerce
CSS, Flash, jQuery, and an arsenal of other powerful Web techniques and technologies have unbound Web site design, creating the opportunity to develop either exceptional user interfaces or really frustrating ones. Furthermore, the growth of "cookie-cutter" e-commerce templates (i.e., “insert your logo here”) has quelled site concepts with great potential and made some e-commerce pages as bland and tasteless as a paper-mâché popsicle. More
What Retailers Should Know About Why Consumers Sign Up for E-mail
from Internet Retailer
Retailers send more e-mail than almost any other industry, according to Forrester Research Inc., but to get the most out of marketing e-mail, they need to drill down into why different consumers subscribe, and craft campaigns accordingly. According to Forrester's report, "Why consumers subscribe to retail e-mails," most consumers now have a long history of receiving e-mails—seven years, on average—and they expect more from them than before. More
Trying to Pitch Products to the Savers
from The New York Times
The biggest challenge confronting marketers is how to deal with the Meineke mind-set consumers have adopted as a result of the recession. The syndrome is named after the discounter that for years ran a campaign featuring fed-up car owners declaring, "I'm not going to pay a lot for this muffler!" What was an annoying slogan has morphed into a mantra as shoppers insist now they are not going to pay a lot for (insert product here, from soup to soap to shoes). More
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U.S. Consumer Spending Eases, Income Surges
from Reuters
U.S. consumer spending fell in April from March, despite personal income posting the largest increase in 11 months, a government report said on Monday, showing activity in the second quarter getting off to a slow start. More
High Gas Prices Could Slow Recovery
from The New York Times
After just a few months of relief at the pump, cheap gasoline is disappearing. Gas prices have risen 41 days in a row, to a national average of almost $2.62 a gallon. That is a sharp increase from the low of $1.62 a gallon that prevailed at the end of last year. The national jump in prices, far larger than the normal seasonal increase, is pulling billions of dollars from the pockets of drivers. It threatens to curtail a modest recovery in consumer spending on items like apparel and electronics. More
Retailers See the Potential for New Business by Linking to Popular Social Networking Sites
from The Wall Street Journal
Retailers routinely post customers’ product reviews online, hoping that favorable comments will boost sales. But there’s a more powerful influence on shoppers that retailers have yet to harness: the advice of friends. More
U.S. Bill Could Help Merchants Cut Credit Card Fees
from Reuters
Merchants and retailers would be able to negotiate with banks to reduce costs associated with credit card purchases, according to legislation introduced on by lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives. More
Back-to-School Shopping to Test Retail Resilience
from Reuters
As students study for final exams, the retail industry is gearing up for its biggest test so far this year -- the back-to-school shopping season. After cutting costs to cope with slack consumer demand during the recession, retailers hope the economy will start to recover in the second half of the year. More
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Obama Picks Former Rep. Jim Leach to Head National Endowment for the Humanities (updated)
from The Los Angeles Times
President Obama is now two-for-two in making somewhat unorthodox choices for the top spots in the agencies that help set and fund the nation's cultural agenda. After recently tapping Rocco Landesman, a Broadway producer and theater owner, to head the National Endowment for the Arts, Obama picked a longtime former Republican congressman, Jim Leach of Iowa, to head the National Endowment for the Humanities. More
Frank Lloyd Wright Homes Reproduced In Lego Form
from CBS-TV Chicago
The work of one of the most famous architects in history is coming to the masses -- in miniature. Lego is introducing two new building sets that are models of Frank Lloyd Wright works. Adam Reed Tucker is the Lego designer. More
Eight Museum Exhibitions You Won't be Seeing in L.A. Anytime Soon
from Los Angeles Times
As the recession continues to inflict damage in the well-appointed halls of the museum world, one of the most noteworthy side effects -- on top of layoffs, ticket hikes and reduced hours of operation -- is the cancellation and postponement of major exhibitions. In Los Angeles, some of the biggest (and richest) museums have had to take an ax to their upcoming schedules in an effort to save money as their funding and endowments continue to shrink. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art are delaying or eliminating major shows. More
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