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Ecommerce Shipping: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Shipping Profitability

BigCommerce

Putting an effective ecommerce shipping strategy in place is one of the most impactful steps you can take to grow your business online. Of course, while shipping can be a powerful point of differentiation for your brand, it’s important to make sure that your company can actually act on the strategy. Go international?

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Reports: Chinese Ecommerce Player Pinduoduo Launches U.S. Site

Retail TouchPoints

Temu’s site shows average shipping times to most of the U.S. Founded in 2015 , Pinduoduo has focused on lower-income customers and the agricultural sector. It has become China’s third-largest ecommerce company after Alibaba and JD.com , relying on low-cost domestic manufacturers to keep prices down.

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Wine Ecommerce: How To Sell & Ship Wine in 2018

BigCommerce

Whether you compare it to grocery stores, convenience stores, or independent wine shops, winery D2C shipping continues to be the leading retail channel. According to the 2018 Direct-to-Consumer Wine Shipping Report , there are two primary reasons for this growth. The second reason is the growing ecommerce market.

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How Amazon and Independent Ecommerce Brands Grew Online Sales 18,233% in 20 Years [Infographic]

BigCommerce

Or perhaps you simply feel the pressure to give your shoppers the options for free or two-day shipping –– just to compete in today’s competitive ecommerce market. By 2014, 2 million third-party sellers shipped a record-breaking 2 billion items. Amazon Prime is launched , providing free shipping for 1 million items.

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The Complete Omni-Channel Retail Report: What Brands Need to Know About Modern Consumer Shopping Habits

BigCommerce

This goes hand in hand with data from the National Retail Federation for the 2015 holiday season. A flexible return policy, free return shipping and even a pre-printed return label can work wonders for a store’s conversion rate. Census Bureau , ecommerce accounted for only 7.5% Reduce Fear for All Buyer Types.

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The Four Biggest Chinese Holidays That Impact E-Commerce

ChannelAdvisor

The buzz around China’s e-commerce boom drastically picked up in the US during the second half of 2014, when Alibaba Group filed for its initial public offering (IPO) in the US. Since then, e-commerce sales have boomed, with retail e-commerce sales in China projected to reach $1.13 trillion in 2017.

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The Four Biggest Chinese Holidays That Impact E-Commerce

ChannelAdvisor

The buzz around China’s e-commerce boom drastically picked up in the US during the second half of 2014, when Alibaba Group filed for its initial public offering (IPO) in the US. Since then, e-commerce sales have boomed, with retail e-commerce sales in China projected to reach $1.13 trillion in 2017.