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Barnes & Noble Revamps Loyalty Program, Adding Free Option

Retail TouchPoints

Barnes & Noble has reconfigured its loyalty offerings for the first time since the program began in 2001, launching its first free program and enhancing the benefits of its paid Membership program. Premium Membership, which costs $39.99

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6 Tips to Help You Prepare Your Shipping Strategy for the Holiday Rush

ChannelAdvisor

Anticipating how to deal with damaged or lost packages, unexpected surcharges, increased packaging materials and more can not only ease shipping stresses, but also provide more clarity to your shipping expenses and needs. Tip #1: Know Shipping Blackout Dates. This will reduce your residential surcharge costs.

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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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Top 10 Multichannel Platforms

Algopix

Founded in 2001, today they are one of the largest multichannel software solutions, service over 2,000 customers around the world. From a humble beginning in 1999 to over 200,000 users, InkFrog is a low-cost tool (price starts at $12 a month), to create and manage lists, synch inventories and market to users.

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Increase Customer Satisfaction with 6 Key Fulfillment Metrics

ecomdash

Founded in 2001, Rakuten Super Logistics is a leader in ecommerce order fulfillment, serving hundreds of ecommerce retailers to increase speed of delivery, improve order accuracy, decrease shipping costs, and increase customer satisfaction. . With Amazon Prime, the 2-day shipping speed is expected from consumers.

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Financial Steps eCommerce Businesses Can Take Now to Weather the COVID-19 Downturn

Inflow Insights

Eventually, you’ll use these scenarios to implement cost cutting and other financial strategies to get your business through this downturn. Most businesses I’ve worked with have less than six months worth of operating costs on hand. 2: Cut Expenses to Slow Your Burn Rate. 3) The Most Realistic Scenario for Your Business.

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The 10 Most Common Challenges Faced by eCommerce Businesses

eCommerce Training Academy

I’ve been involved in eCommerce since 2001 and I can truly say, A LOT has changed. Attracting new customers is more expensive than retaining the current ones you already have. Online retailers must always find ways to cut inventory costs, improve marketing efficiency, reduce overhead, reduce shipping costs and control order returns.

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