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e-Curing the Holiday Humbug

Anyone trying to keep an e-commerce site afloat didn't ' and still doesn't ' need to read the newspaper to realize the business downturn: the grim news appears every day in the cash till, in the aging-of-receivables report, and in overdue payables. While the down times are as inevitable a part of a business cycle as the booming times, that realization doesn't satisfy the bank, the critical vendor at the door or the payroll processor that must be paid.

39 minute read November 26, 2008 at 10:03 AM
By
Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
e-Curing the Holiday Humbug

“When the world is running down

You make the best of what's still around
.”

' The Police, 1980

As the holiday shopping season began this year, gloom-and-doom predictions greeted consumers and e-commerce firms alike.

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