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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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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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The Pros and Cons of Shopify vs Squarespace for Selling Online

Groove

Originally launched in 2004 as a blog creation tool, Squarespace was founded by Anthony Casalena while he was attending a college local to Groove Commerce, The University of Maryland. Merchants have the ability to list products for sale, collect payments and ship products. Squarespace. Shopify Cons. Paid Integrations. Theme Editor.

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

BigCommerce

I talk to 3-5 ecommerce owners or business operators each week. 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.

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10 Useful Shopify Apps

Kissmetrics

By subscribing to Shopify’s e-commerce platform, Shopify customers can harness the platform’s shopping cart solution to sell, ship, and manage products. Founded in 2004, the e-commerce platform now reports an annual gross merchandise volume exceeding $61 billion and has over 500,00 merchants. What It’s Best For. Plug in SEO.

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The Best WooCommerce Hosting on the Market (June 2020)

Ecommerce Platforms

It offers excellent value for money and a great choice of pricing plans, each with a generous number of features. It’s fast; it’s easy to install and offers managed hosting at a reasonable price with a record of 100% uptime. Again, the prices are reasonable, and SiteGround's customer support is brilliant. What they offer.

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Big Cartel vs Shopify – The Ultimate Comparison

Ecommerce Platforms

Although the company was founded in 2004, the ecommerce platform itself was launched in 2006. After uploading your product images, you only need to determine the prices, select a suitable store theme, and voila! While they support a fair array of edits, the most customizable options come at a price. User-Friendliness.