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Small Business, Big Ideas: Inside the Luxury Advent Calendar Boom with DTC Brand Cheese Brothers

Retail TouchPoints

The advent calendar has long been a holiday staple, but in the last few years a new variation has soared in popularity luxury advent calendars, ranging in price from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Reader beware, googling this topic will take you down a very expensive rabbit hole, so hold onto your wallet.) In fact, U.S.

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12 Common Mistakes When Selling Across Borders

BigCommerce

Calculating Total Landed Costs. Dimensional and Physical Shipping Assumptions. These platforms, like BigCommerce, have lower total cost of ownership than on-premise solutions and allow your teams to work remote and in localized regions around the clock. Forgetting to Calculate Total Landed Costs. Shipping methods.

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How Amazon and Independent Ecommerce Brands Grew Online Sales 18,233% in 20 Years [Infographic]

BigCommerce

Amazon’s stock price has risen in equal measure, from $18 in 1997 to around $948 at the time of writing –– a 5,166% increase. Or perhaps you simply feel the pressure to give your shoppers the options for free or two-day shipping –– just to compete in today’s competitive ecommerce market. You are not wrong in that feeling.

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How a $1,000,000 Loss Turned into a $22,000,000 Gain

BigCommerce

After all, we started the business in 2002, directly in the aftermath of the DotCom bubble burst. In 2002, eBay was a very successful online marketplace, but we could never figure it out. Not buying them at a price to support that low price at a profit. And it cost us –– big time. Like I said, life was great.

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What to Sell in 2018: How to Find a Product Niche and Start Selling Online

BigCommerce

Forget which shipping options you offer. They’re all important, but the most important thing you must get right from the very beginning is exactly what you sell and how you price those products. Now think of the brands — Heinz, Callaway, Levi, Fisher-Price. – Estelle Letizia, Shipping Mgr., Forget a pretty theme.

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How Coronavirus Is Impacting Ecommerce

ROI Revolution

With the growth of ecommerce, coronavirus shouldn’t disrupt the economy as much as the SARS outbreak did in 2002. Fears over having products go out of stock may be part of what fueled some third-party sellers to price gouge on Amazon when the virus first started taking hold in the U.S. Can your brand handle this higher demand?

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The 15 Best Ecommerce Platform for Small Business

Ecommerce Platforms

Selling online has become such a cost-effective, efficient, and popular way to earn your fortune in the digital landscape, that everyone wants a piece of the pie. Price/Budget: While there’s a lot more to an ecommerce solution than it’s price, as a small business owner, you’ll be reluctant to take on any additional cost.