Category Archives: Shipping and Fulfillment

Replatforming – Total Overhaul or Gradual Update?

To stay competitive in ecommerce, it’s important to periodically assess the effectiveness of your ecommerce platform. Are the tools available to you meeting the demands of your business? Has the design become outdated or ceased to be user-friendly? Have customers expressed frustration … Continue reading

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Financial Tools for Success in Cross-Border Ecommerce

You’ve determined that the time is right to expand your ecommerce company internationally. You’ve identified an ecommerce platform that offers multi-language solutions, offers an integrated backend toolkit to make managing your storefronts easy, and is versed in the SEO best-practices … Continue reading

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Integrating Warehouse & Shipping Management

While it’s easy to see the benefits of an optimized and integrated ecommerce system for customer management, it’s equally – if less obviously – important to have that system integrate with the one managing your inventory and shipping operations. The best ecommerce … Continue reading

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Optimizing Your B2B System

The volume of business-to-business orders occurring online continues to grow – even outpacing direct-to-consumer growth in 2014.¹ Research conducted by Forrester Consulting indicates B2B suppliers plan to expand ecommerce platforms in order to offer improved omnichannel experiences for customers in coming … Continue reading

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Streamline Your Inventory, Order, and Customer Systems

To succeed in the fast-paced world of omni-channel commerce, it is essential that retailers pay attention to the demands and expectations of their customers. By integrating and streamlining your customer and order management systems, you can improve service response times, … Continue reading

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The 6 Silliest Sales Tax Rules in the US

With the online holiday shopping mostly over we are sharing guest content from our partner Avalara. If you’ve ever dealt with sales tax rules, then you know there are some crazy laws about how to tax products. But do you know exactly … Continue reading

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Strategies for Increasing Your Average Order Value

Encouraging your customers to buy more items and spend more money each time they shop is a proven method to boost revenue and profitability. Brick-and-mortar retailers have perfected the practice over the years, based on the marketing concept of the … Continue reading

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Christmas 1.0 – or the E-commerce Playbook for the Holidays

Part 4 of 4 – Fulfillment In the first three parts of the E-commerce Playbook for the Holidays we discussed how to use Data Analysis to create an effective Holiday Sales plan, how to focus your Marketing in order to … Continue reading

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Christmas 1.0 – or the E-commerce Playbook for the Holidays

Part 1 of 4 – Data Analysis As soon as the Back-to-school shopping is over, retailers and e-commerce providers will turn their almost undivided attention to Christmas. Some retailers have already started preparing for the season. In the next few … Continue reading

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Why and When Should a Brand Go Direct-To-Consumer

Is your company at the crossroads, trying to determine if a full investment in Direct-to-consumer e-commerce is worth it? Are you having doubts about the effectiveness of your current site? Do you believe that your market is growing, while you … Continue reading

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