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ShipStation Alternatives for 3PL and Shipping Success

Ecommerce Platforms

As one of the most popular shipping apps for ecommerce order fulfillment, ShipStation often gets recommended for managing shipments, finding great deals from carriers, and sending tracking codes. But ShipStation isn’t for everyone, whether it’s due to the ShipStation pricing, interface, or geographical support. ShipStation Pricing.

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Yotpo Review and Pricing: What’s It All About? Reveal Pricing and Features

Ecommerce Platforms

The bottom line: It’s a given that customers will read online reviews before deciding on a product Just look at popular online marketplaces, for instance. Most products display positive, negative, and mediocre reviews posted by real-life customers. Needless to say, glowing reviews help ecommerce businesses attract customers.

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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. Find New Ways to Serve Your Niche and Your Most Loyal Customers.

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Shopping Cart Checklist – What to Look For in a Checkout Experience

GetElastic

Author's Note: This is an update to a post originally published in May 2011 and has been edited for relevancy. When multiple brands co-exist the cart/checkout process should look seamless to the customer. Deliver unique customer experiences. Be clear in what you’re asking the customer to do. Shipping and Tax Calculation.

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Reshoring: COVID-19’s Impact On The Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

If a certain industry relies on offshore factories, reshoring means allocating the resources necessary to localize that production, which means organizations no longer have to depend on international deals and long-distance shipping. especially from “low-cost country trading partners” in Asia. In a 2018 study, the consulting firm A.T.

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Discount Nation, Promiscuous Shoppers And The Sucker Price

Steve Dennis

Early in 2011, I first wrote about what I called “Discount Nation.” Free shipping was virtually ubiquitous during the 2010 holiday season. The fastest growing segments of physical retail are off-price and dollar stores. Regular price did not become the “sucker price” just in the last few years.

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eCommerce Shopping Cart Checklist - What to Look For in a Checkout Experience

GetElastic

Author's Note: This is an update to a post originally published in May 2011 and has been edited for relevancy. There are many reasons why your customers don’t complete a purchase; from sticker shock to getting distracted, it’s often something unrelated to the design or usability of the item in question. Shipping and Tax Calculation.