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33 Ecommerce Strategies for Growth from 12 $1M+ Brands [18 Must Have Tools Included]

BigCommerce

B2B buyers often require personalized prices –– which you can get by logging in on Atlanta Light Bulbs site (they use customer groups to make this happen). Let customers name their price: ALB uses PriceWaiter on their product pages –– which lets the buyer name a price. And not a soul was checking out.

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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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Resilience Training: Small Business Innovation During a Recession

Retail TouchPoints

One of the first things a business can do to prepare itself is to save and cut costs. It seems like a no-brainer, but many business owners don’t take the opportunity to eliminate unnecessary expenses or make sure they have enough stored away. It’s hard to know how far-reaching a recession can be.

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

BigCommerce

But when Amazon called us in 2004, the timing and the structure were right. Not buying them at a price to support that low price at a profit. Then, chasing the sale despite not making profits with the hopes that our volume would back us into lower cost of goods. And it cost us –– big time. The model was simple.

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How to Use Digital Wallets and Mobile Site Optimization Tactics to Stamp Out Cart Abandonment

BigCommerce

These issues, it turns out, aren’t a minor inconvenience, either — they’re costing business owners somewhere in the region of half their potential mobile sales, and often more. Here are some stats (read the full article here ): 61%: Extra costs (shipping, taxes, fees) were too high. 35%: Didn’t want to create an account.

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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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Cross-Border Commerce 101: The History, The Lingo, The $900B Opportunity

BigCommerce

2004 – Facebook founded. Today, consumers around the world can shop your website, price compare on marketplaces, schedule to test your product in-store or over a video conference line, and connect via social media, all within the same day. Creating a country or region-specific shipping zone. Adding shipping regions.