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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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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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Squarespace Review (Sep 2020) – 11 Pros and Cons of Using Squarespace

Ecommerce Platforms

In this detailed Squarespace review , we'll talk about things like pricing, features, and what type of customer support you can get for your store. For instance, unlike competitors, Squarespace pricing doesn’t come with any long-term free plan options. The pricing is decent, and you're still receiving the essentials.

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Cross-Border Commerce 101: The History, The Lingo, The $900B Opportunity

BigCommerce

2004 – Facebook founded. Today, consumers around the world can shop your website, price compare on marketplaces, schedule to test your product in-store or over a video conference line, and connect via social media, all within the same day. Creating a country or region-specific shipping zone. Adding shipping regions.

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Big Success and Brand Loyalty with MiniZoo

Smile.io

MiniZoo is Australia’s animal toy figurine store, which began as a brick-and-mortar toy shop in 2004. ” The MiniZoo team knows its audience and keeps them excited about new product releases by providing quality products, excellent service, and fast shipping times.

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MyyShop Review [2021]

AcquireConvert

Dropshipping is a smart and growing form of ecommerce that has enabled many smaller merchants and entrepreneurs around the world to get started with their stores – without the upfront expenses or time commitment to logistics that are generally required for successful ventures. You can’t do it alone, of course.

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Squarespace Review

Kissmetrics

The huge drag-and-drop website builder was started in 2004 by a University of Maryland college student and has since flourished into an amazingly streamlined website builder that has been used to create millions of websites. Squarespace Pricing. Squarespace Compared to The Best Website Builders. But don’t take my word for it.