Kissmetrics

DECEMBER 22, 2020

To have a successful e-commerce platform, you have to pay to play. How Using Social Media Influencers Can Grow Your E-commerce Brand. The problem is, most e-commerce brands don’t have the budget to partner with the likes of Kim Kardashian. E-commerce is a highly competitive market.

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BigCommerce

JUNE 8, 2017

While product-market fit and user acquisition are undoubtedly crucial to your business, ecommerce fulfillment is the engine that keeps your car running. While small businesses can often manage their inventory , packing, and shipping , as the operation scales up, additional support is needed and beneficial. What is order fulfillment?

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 29, 2021

If you run an e-Commerce brand, there’s a good chance you have an Instagram account. How long should E-commcerce companies spend writing their best Instagram bios? 10 Best Instagram Bios for E-commerce Businesses. Supply is a razor and grooming company that was featured on Shark Tank. Brooklinen.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Supply chain management is the heart of retail management and has the ability to inform the overall health of a business. As a result, businesses looking to gain a competitive advantage in the global marketplace are investing more heavily in supply chain management. Navigating the Dynamic and Evolving Shipping Industry.

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lateshipment

MARCH 3, 2025

Imagine a world where your shipping process runs like a well-oiled machineno missed deliveries, no tracking nightmares, and definitely no irate customers flooding your inbox. Well, welcome to the reality of automated shipping. What is Shipping Automation? Sounds like a dream? Spoiler alert: its a total game-changer.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Businesses continued to be put to the test over the last year, especially small business owners in retail and ecommerce. Relentless challenges including supply chain disruptions, weather disasters and a ship stuck in the Suez Canal slowed shipments and delivery of goods to consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

With supply chain disruptions still making headlines, small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) looking to remain competitive may contend with inventory challenges and rising rates of theft and damage in the last mile. Here are three ways SMBs can deliver a more personalized shipping experience to build a happier, more loyal customer base.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2020

As the pandemic has driven the adoption of e-Commerce to a level retailers didn’t expect to see for a year or more, many are speeding up the development of digital products and services that were further ahead on their technology roadmaps. The third-party vendors will ship the products directly to the consumers’ homes.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Seeking to compete with ultra-low-price sites such as Shein and Temu , Amazon has introduced Amazon Haul , featuring maximum prices of $20 and one- to two-week shipping times. There have been rumors of the move for months, and now the new shop is officially rolling out in beta. It will be available to U.S.

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Shipping Costs Electronics eCommerce Fashion 284

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2020

It would seem that scales have long been tipped in favor of the retail giants — those with massive footprints, established brands, warehouses chock-full of supply to meet global consumer demand and the resources to offer a wide array of products. The easier option is in fact to move away from giant e-Commerce marketplaces.

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Kissmetrics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A chatbot for e-commerce gives you the power to engage with new, existing, and potential customers with real-time, text-style messaging, without actually providing (and paying for!) Today, I will explain exactly how to build and launch a chatbot for your e-commerce store from start to finish. a live person.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

It’s no surprise that ecommerce has practically taken over the global economy. According to a study by the Öko-Institut in Berlin, ecommerce overall results in significantly lower carbon emissions than brick-and-mortar retail sales, mostly thanks to savings in heating and electricity. trillion by 2023. Mitigating Returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers. This presents a dual shipping dilemma for businesses: how can they keep shipping costs on the business low, while also offering customer-friendly return policies? of total retail sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2020

On this front, e-Commerce giant Amazon leads the pack with same-day, next-day and two-day delivery options. In fact, MHI’s 2020 Industry Report found that “customer demand on response times” was one of the top challenges in the supply chain today. Getting Up To Speed With Creative Strategies. Think Small.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

But the supply chain disruptions that it exacerbated have not fallen by the wayside as easily as disposable masks did, with the global movement of goods continuing to be impacted by one challenge after another — from war and terrorist attacks to drought. The COVID-19 pandemic has, for all intents and purposes, ended.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 1, 2025

This includes real-time notifications for order status, shipping information, refund status and any potential delays. a modern, modular and API-first enterprise ecommerce and omnichannel OMS platform company. A positive post-purchase experience is crucial for customer loyalty and retention, brand trust and positive word-of-mouth.

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lateshipment

MARCH 23, 2025

When it comes to e-commerce, a failed delivery is not simply a minor hiccupbut a ticking time bomb for customer satisfaction, revenue, and business growth. When DHL, one of the biggest names in global shipping, doesnt deliver (quite literally), it can leave e-commerce businesses scrambling in confusion.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Supply chain challenges are nothing new, but they are newly in the spotlight as massive consumer delays and shortages affect the shopping public. Once goods make it off a ship, the next slowdown comes as dozens of entities with conflicts of their own work to accommodate their quick transport.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Services at Amazon , is celebrating his 10th anniversary with the company this year, and so he kicked off the fourth annual Amazon Accelerate conference for sellers by comparing the differences between the ecommerce platform today and 10 years ago.

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Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

This is scary for all industries, and in particular for the shipping as its fate is tightly linked to the health of the global economy. In recent years, we have seen distorted supply and demand, weakening global GDP growth, […].

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Most retailers are keenly aware that the credit card and customer data on their networks is a prime target for hackers, and so they barricade access points to their websites and ecommerce systems to ward off intrusion. But their cybersecurity teams pay much less attention to the sprawling network of vendors in the supply chain.

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lateshipment

MARCH 9, 2022

Shipping delays are inevitable even with the most efficient carriers. Dealing with shipping delays is no rocket science but first, we’ll bust a few delay-related myths along the way to make it easier for you. Shipping Delays are More Common Than You Think. On the contrary, shipping delays are more common than we believe.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Historically, in its most simple definition, the “supply chain” division of retail was the one in charge of getting stuff in, maybe storing it for a while — maybe not (cross-docking) — and then getting whatever stuff they did store out to brick-and-mortar locations to be sold to the masses. Hey, that’s why they call it supply chain !

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lateshipment

MARCH 23, 2025

When it comes to e-commerce, a failed delivery is not simply a minor hiccupbut a ticking time bomb for customer satisfaction, revenue, and business growth. When DHL, one of the biggest names in global shipping, doesnt deliver (quite literally), it can leave e-commerce businesses scrambling in confusion.

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lateshipment

MARCH 8, 2025

Late delivery incidents are frequent, almost inevitable, and happen primarily because shipping carriers fail to keep up with their promises of on-time delivery despite their busy schedules during times like the holiday season and while facing supply chain disruptions. Lets begin!

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

However, the functions of packaging can vary significantly depending on its intended purpose – retail or ecommerce. Let’s delve deeper into the classifications of retail and ecommerce packaging, exploring their defining characteristics and best practices.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

specializes in wholesale and , 65 years since its inception, now supplies many of those big-name retailers , as well as smaller regional chains, with name-brand off-price and closeout inventory. We have a long history of supplying the elite off-price companies with great deals that make their customers keep coming back, he said.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

Retailers’ attitudes about ecommerce have undergone a series of rapid evolutions over the last two years. Then, once basic digital offerings were in place, merchants began to consider how to make these ecommerce advancements permanent in preparation for the “New Normal.”. Why is Ecommerce Profitability So Elusive?

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lateshipment

MARCH 3, 2025

Did you know that 62.58% of online shoppers expect e-commerce businesses to accept returns within the 30-day mark? In the world of e-commerce, an effective reverse logistics and returns management system is no longer a nice add-on; its a must. Here are some ways in which it impacts your e-commerce business: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

The ecommerce boom of 2020 brought millions of new shoppers to digital platforms, and that growth trajectory continued into 2021. At the end of 2021, the editors of Retail TouchPoints took a stab at predicting what would happen in ecommerce in 2022. Prediction #1: Content will Become Central to Commerce. Verdict: Spot on.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2024

The ecommerce industry has experienced rapid growth in recent years, with global sales reaching an estimated $5.8 The same study suggests this trend is only expected to continue: by 2027, the global retail ecommerce market is projected to grow by 39% and surpass the $8 trillion mark. trillion in 2023, according to research by Statista.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The site offers items across categories including apparel, jewelry, pet supplies and home and garden, many at bargain prices. Temu’s site shows average shipping times to most of the U.S. Temu’s site shows average shipping times to most of the U.S. While GlobalData forecasts that the Chinese ecommerce market will reach $3.3

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Kissmetrics

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ecommerce is still growing. Statista says worldwide ecommerce sales will grow from 4.2 The worldwide pandemic and the growth of remote work continues to boost ecommerce growth. This is a huge opportunity for ecommerce companies that are ready for this change. Your ecommerce business will need help.

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BigCommerce

MAY 1, 2018

However, that’s not to say that big data can’t still be an essential tool in your arsenal as your grow your ecommerce channel. Nonetheless, both technology and human behavior are constantly changing, and as a business owner or ecommerce manager, you have to be ready to adapt. The way the world works.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2024

Pulling the right levers to adjust your supply chain strategy can make a huge difference in today’s competitive market by ensuring that your store shelves are stocked accordingly and packages arrive to customers on time and as expected. Just one damaged item can have a trickle-down effect at every step of the supply chain.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Let’s face it — a monogamous relationship with a national shipping company ain’t cutting it anymore. For ecommerce retailers, the thing that matters most is the confirmation of what we have all intuitively felt: The delivery experience for consumers has not been good enough, and that is only exacerbated during the annual holiday season boom.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2022

Supply chain struggles never used to make headlines. That changed over the past few years as the COVID-19 pandemic and then the Russian invasion of Ukraine strained the supply chains for everything from chicken tenders to precious metals — resulting in empty shelves, delayed order shipments, reduced profit and frustrated retail customers.

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