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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

Retail TouchPoints

Online shopping is now easier than ever before, enabling consumers to purchase everything from socks to a dining room table from a computer at their home to a mobile phone in an airport terminal. While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers.

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How To Calculate Shipping Costs

Ecommerce Platforms

Shipping doesn't have to be free. However, studies have shown that 91% of ecommerce customers rethink their purchases from online stores when they realize that the shipping wasn't priced well or it wasn't fast enough. Customers go to those sites and expect free/cheap shipping and rapid store-to-door delivery.

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Scaling Up Sales in Enterprises: Weighing Discounts Against Free Shipping

Wiser

When it comes to online retail, pricing strategies can make or break a business’s success. Among these strategies, two stand out as particularly effective tools for driving conversions: discounts and free shipping. On the other hand, free shipping has emerged as a potent marketing strategy in the era of eCommerce.

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Extended Back-to-School Season Spotlights Need for Tactical Markdowns

Retail TouchPoints

As with many other retail sales “seasons,” formerly hard-and-fast dates about when back-to-school (BTS) selling starts — and perhaps more importantly, when it stops — have become more nebulous in recent years. That’s putting pressure on brand loyalty, as people switch to lower-cost channels and different brands.

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Clean Data, Clean Planet: How Online Retailers can use Data Analytics to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Retail TouchPoints

The acceleration of the digital economy has led to technological innovation in many aspects of retail operations. New tools make data available to retailers like never before and are the linchpin to improving efficiencies, reducing waste, saving energy and assessing overall carbon footprint. Making the Warehouse Energy Efficient.

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The Complete Comparison Guide Between Your 3 Ecommerce Fulfillment Options: Drop-Shipping, 3PL or Self-Fulfillment

BigCommerce

While small businesses can often manage their inventory , packing, and shipping , as the operation scales up, additional support is needed and beneficial. In this guide, we’ll walk through everything you need to know about three of the most popular strategies: Drop-shipping. Order management. Customer communication. Self-fulfillment.

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Dynamic Pricing Strategy Benefits All Online Retailers Need to Know

Wiser

Dynamic pricing in online retail has come a long way as a pricing strategy. It is defined as a strategy that allows retailers to respond in real-time to supply and demand levers. Where Did Dynamic Pricing Originate? . Dynamic pricing ties back to a pricing model that American Airlines pioneered in the 1980s.