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

Retail TouchPoints

With rising fuel prices, supply chain and logistics challenges, and higher labor and production costs, retailers are struggling with how to efficiently deliver a high volume of goods to consumers who have quickly become accustomed to seamless purchasing experiences. As it turns out, this is quite an expensive problem to solve.

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Multi-Channel Retailing and the Buyer’s Journey: Opportunities and Challenges

BigCommerce

It’s all about moving beyond your website and exploring channels such as marketplaces, social media, and comparison shopping engines. Consumers Are Shopping in More Locations Than Ever. A report by BigCommerce confirms that buyers across several age groups are shopping from multiple sales channels.

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Frugal Shoppers: The Untapped Shopper Base You Can Reach to Win the Holiday Sales Season

Retail TouchPoints

Price comparison shopping is easy in the digital world, and these savvy shoppers will put in the work to find the best deals. According to Google , customers searching for a “discount code” has increased by 50% in the last year. Surviving the Surge by Load-Balancing Operations.

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Cars, Wine, Trees — COVID-19 Proved Once and For All that You Can Sell Just About Anything Online

Retail TouchPoints

Learning about the different models, comparison shopping, getting price quotes, looking into features — all of that’s happening online, prior to the actual transaction, which then the consumer goes to do in person. It’s really about getting over that last hurdle at the bottom of the funnel.”.

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Multichannel Distribution 101: Expand Your Ecommerce Business to New Marketplaces

SellBrite

The second is what we’re talking about: Google’s comparison shopping engine. Google Shopping, Google’s comparison shopping engine. Want to know more details on how Google Shopping works ? Listing your products on Google’s comparison shopping engine is completely free. Check out our nifty guide.

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Multichannel Selling: A Guide for Ecommerce Businesses

SellBrite

Along with increasing revenue, multichannel selling helps sellers reduce risk and acquire new customers. Multichannel selling is the selling of products on more than one sales channel—marketplaces, social media, comparison shopping engines, and so on. What is multichannel selling? Why you should start multichannel selling.

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7 Things to Tune TODAY to Prepare Your Mobile Experience for Holiday ’19

GetElastic

Not only does this impact customer experience, mobile page load speed is a critical search ranking factor (yes, Google measures the time it takes for a click to your site to bounce back to the SERPs). Giving customers time to “behave” on your site allows you to show more relevant popups, thus convert more mobile visitors.

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