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Learn about MAP policies, best practices and more.

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Why Internal Stakeholders Can Be the Difference When Enforcing MAP Policies

The people that enforce a brand's MAP policy can vary, but at the very least, brands enforcing MAP Policies should make sure certain personnel are involved.

  • Topic: MAP Enforcement

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A Guide to Un-disguising the Unauthorized Sellers of Ghost Sellerville

If your products are sold online, the odds are that you’ve got a number of sellers you don’t know. Not only are they unauthorized but you don’t even know how they got inventory. At MAPP Trap we call them “Ghost Sellers,” and they can hurt a brand in many different ways. 

  • Topic: Unauthorized Sellers

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Should You Include All Products in a MAP Policy

There are many things a brand should consider when planning to implement a minimum advertised pricing policy (MAPP). A frequently overlooked question: “Should we MAPP all of our products?”

  • Topic: MAP Policies

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Why Properly Identifying Product Sources (SourceMap) is Important in Enforcing MAP Policies

Okay, you’ve got buy-in from the whole company to finally enforce your MAP Policy. That’s great. Merchant identification is vital to the successful enforcement of Minimum Advertised Price Policies (MAPP). 

  • Topic: MAP Enforcement

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What Is Price Erosion and Why Is It Bad?

A proper product pricing strategy is essential to every aspect of the product supply chain. Whether it’s a factory providing the cost of goods, the manufacturer setting the wholesale cost and suggested retail price, or the retailer selling the goods, everyone is affected.

  • Topic: MAP Pricing

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Top 6 Things to Avoid When Adopting and Enforcing a MAP Policy

Over the past 15 years or so, minimum advertising price policies (MAP) have been adopted by tens of thousands of brands. It is one of the most important brand protection strategies that a company

  • Topic: MAP Enforcement

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Six Things to Avoid When Enforcing your MAP Policy

Your company has finally decided to adopt and enforce a minimum advertised price policy. Perhaps your reason was the unlevel playing field between eCommerce and brick-and-mortar stores.

  • Topic: MAP Enforcement

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How Manufacturers Benefit from a MAP Policy

The faster the technology and consumer adoption of eCommerce evolves, the more important it is for brand-owners to adopt and enforce minimum advertised price policies (MAPP).

  • Topic: MAP Policy

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3 Steps to Protect and Improve Your Brand's Ecommerce Footprint

Whether you’re trying to boost overall brand perception, reduce MAP Violations or just clean up your online product listings, the first thing you need to do is cut the ecommerce clutter...

  • Topic: Brand Perception

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