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

Retail TouchPoints

Newly developed freight booking tools have made it easier and more efficient to book containers on large cargo ships, thereby reducing the need for air freight, which is generally seen as producing a larger carbon footprint. Shipping companies can obtain information through GPS tags to help locate containers and ships in real time.

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5 Ways E-Commerce Companies Can Use BrickSeek to Increase Sales

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If you’ve heard of BrickSeek, you likely know it’s a powerful tool for consumers, allowing them to track down inventory and find the best deals at big retailers. However, to give a brief overview, BrickSeek started out in 2014 as a web application enabling LEGO collectors to track down popular sets online and in-store.

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7 Brands Discuss the Benefits of the New Cashless Economy and Apple Pay’s Growing Ubiquity

BigCommerce

Adii Pienaar, Founder of Conversio and WooThemes (later acquired by WooCommerce), sums this up best: Customers worldwide are using their mobile devices for online shopping more often. Depending on who you want to believe, it’s estimated that since late-2014 more than 50% of all online purchases are made from mobile devices.

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From Retail to e-Tail: How to Launch an Ecommerce Website for Your Brick-and-Mortar

BigCommerce

To ensure that you’re offering a fair and competitive price for your products, you’ll want to look at what similar online retailers are charging. Don’t just look at the price retailers are charging for their products, look at the total cost as well (tax + shipping charges + service fees). Determine your shipping costs.

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How to Start an Ecommerce Business

SellBrite

For example, when bed-in-a-box startup Casper started in 2014, the company had only one product to offer. But by selling its mattress using a direct-to-consumer model, Casper simplified the mattress-shopping process by limiting choice and cutting out salespeople, and the startup did $100 million in sales in less than two years.

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Should You Use Shopify for Dropshipping? Here’s How to Decide

SellBrite

The accessibility and simplicity of this business model enable anyone to break into ecommerce, and, thanks to Shopify — the leading ecommerce platform for online retailers with more than a million users — selling a variety of products via dropshipping is easier than ever. Shipping costs can be higher. It’s simple to manage.

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The Risks and Rewards of Localizing International eCommerce

ESW

For direct-to-consumer eCommerce brands and customers alike, the globe is getting smaller. Until recently, online retail mostly took place domestically, with the majority of buyers and sellers coming from the same country. Increasingly, consumers are seeking out international brands to find the products that they want.