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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

Retail TouchPoints

While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers. This presents a dual shipping dilemma for businesses: how can they keep shipping costs on the business low, while also offering customer-friendly return policies?

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Want to Cut the Cost of Fast Fulfillment? It All Starts with Inventory Placement

Retail TouchPoints

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs.

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Internal Warehouse vs. 3PL: How to Reach the Best Decision for Your Business

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In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers. Each option has its benefits and disadvantages.

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4 Ways Retailers can Leverage Generative AI to Drive Revenue and Productivity

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Global ecommerce sales, representing 22% of all retail sales, could increase to $5.4 trillion in 2026, from $3.3 For example, a retailer looking to use the technology for generating descriptions in ecommerce product catalogs would train the model on relevant product information and metatags specific to its brand and items they sell.

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How Ecommerce Retailers Can Prepare Now for Back-to-School 2022

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This is also the ideal time to review the online customer journey, because consumer expectations for ecommerce convenience and personalization are higher than ever, based on the findings of ClearSale’s 2021 State of Consumer Attitudes on Ecommerce, Fraud & CX survey. Personalize Your Back-to-School Marketing.

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Best Ecommerce Platforms for Subscriptions (Apr 2023)

Ecommerce Platforms

The best subscription ecommerce platform gives today’s business owners an exceptional way to increase the lifetime value of their customers, and unlock recurring revenue. Today, we’re going to be reviewing some of the top subscription ecommerce platforms available to business owners in 2023. What is Subscription Ecommerce?

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How Retailers and Brands can Thrive amid High Inflation

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The big question for brands and retailers is how to increase revenues and efficiency, decrease expenses and make every customer count. What’s more, merchandising rules enable ecommerce sites to rank how items appear in a gallery, banner or carousel, to promote and demote products and, in turn, improve your business metrics.