Monthly Archives: August 2012

Order Fullfillment: You Can Do it, We Can Help

No matter how much time, effort, and money you put into promoting your business and converting visitors into buyers, you’ll never create repeat customers if you screw up fulfillment. –Jamie Salvatori, Practical Ecommerce As your business grows, the warehouse can … Continue reading

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Are you overpaying for shipping?

Figuring out how to decrease shipping errors and cost is a very real concern for many ecommerce retailers.  In a recent article on Practical Ecommerce, John Haber, founder and CEO of Spend Management Experts, a shipping and logistics consulting firm, … Continue reading

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Must Have Features for the Holidays

The holidays are in the air. Late August is right about the time that many ecommerce retailers begin thinking about and planning for the holidays—getting inventories in order and setting a marketing game plan for the holiday season.  It is … Continue reading

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Designing the Perfect Shopping Cart

There are a number of pieces that make up a working ecommerce retail website: There is the landing page, which is the first thing that most users will see, there are product descriptions, images, categories, order management, order fulfillment—however, it … Continue reading

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That’s a Wrap

In a lackadaisical economy, there can be a lot of pressure to come up with ways to get customers in the door (or onto the website and up to the shopping cart, as the case may be).  Ecommerce retailers struggle … Continue reading

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To Wholesale or not to Wholesale

In the world of ecommerce, there are many different ways to create a business from the buying and selling of products.  Many small business owners who create or produce their own products will at one time or another consider the … Continue reading

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Upshot and ERPs: Taking Out the Growing Pains

Anyone who has built a medium-sized business from the ground floor up probably remembers a time when their business seemed a lot less complicated.  Remember when the ledger was a college rule notebook and extra stock was stored in your … Continue reading

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Everyone Wins with Loyalty Rewards Programs

Getting (and keeping) loyal customers can be the secret to the success of many small and medium sized ecommerce companies.  Most retailers will find it difficult in many ways to compete with the Walmarts and Amazon.coms of the world, simply … Continue reading

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