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Ecommerce Shipping: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Shipping Profitability

BigCommerce

While many brands start out in ecommerce by taking a simplistic approach to shipping –– like offering free shipping across the board or showing unmodified UPS or USPS rates –– the most successful merchants use strategic shipping options to differentiate themselves from their competition and increase margins. Product size and weight.

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

BigCommerce

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. By 2014, 2 million third-party sellers shipped a record-breaking 2 billion items. You are not wrong in that feeling. 55% of online product searches begin on Amazon.

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Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin and Blockchain in Ecommerce

Ecommerce Platforms

There are several trends influencing the ecommerce industry as a whole, but arguably the most visible of these is bitcoin. When it comes to payment processors in ecommerce sites, the talk used to be about credit cards, PayPal, COD (cash on delivery), et al. Digital currencies are the future of ecommerce. Not convinced?

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Why Cross Border Ecommerce is the Future of Ecommerce

Ecommerce Platforms

The last 2 years ecommerce has seen distributed ecommerce (buy buttons on certain social networks – Twitter and Pinterest) and more recently conversational ecommerce has emerged as a contender for the future. I personally view these as fads where as cross border ecommerce has potential to be the future of ecommerce.

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How to Prep for Mobile Commerce in 2018

SellBrite

To help sellers prep for “m-commerce” in the coming year, this guide will walk through how much mobile shopping has grown. We’ll also address the unique challenges of selling on mobile devices, and show what steps merchants can take to make their business mobile-friendly. Mobile Commerce is Taking Over Ecommerce.

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Your Quick Start Guide to Cross-Border Ecommerce in China, India & The Middle East

BigCommerce

As merchants venture off into new markets, the very first step is almost always around discover: . Below you will find a country-by-country, quick start guide to entering each respective market. From marketplaces to social commerce platforms, everything that you need to know as a merchant is right here, right now.

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The Home Depot Promotes Insider to President and COO

Retail TouchPoints

A 20-year veteran of the company, Decker has served as EVP of Merchandising since 2014. As the company’s chief merchant, he has been responsible for all store and online merchandising departments, merchandising strategy, services and vendor management, marketing and in-store environment.