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

Retail TouchPoints

Online shopping is now easier than ever before, enabling consumers to purchase everything from socks to a dining room table from a computer at their home to a mobile phone in an airport terminal. While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers.

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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. Target (40%).

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After Summer Sale Comes Amazon Prime Day — Retailers Must Prepare

Retail TouchPoints

They have plenty of room to offer great discounts, and will be more confident about their shipping guarantees as well. After the summer sale, it will be time for retailers to regroup and determine what their best move should be in October, when the spotlight is on for early holiday shopping.

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Multichannel Distribution 101: Expand Your Ecommerce Business to New Marketplaces

SellBrite

You’ve already set prices, taken product images, and worked out listing details. Its Individual plan is geared towards those with lower sales and costs $0.99 Every seller also pays a referral fee for each product sold, which ranges between 8% and 15% of the sale price for most product categories. per product sold.

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How to Use Facebook Messenger to Sell More E-Commerce Products

Kissmetrics

I’m going to show you how to wow your customers with Facebook Messenger. I’ll help you figure out how to do this so well it won’t just improve your customer experience, it will also boost your sales. All a customer will have to do is tap the button and go through a simple checkout process within the app.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Of course, there are reasons why certain kinds of products haven’t been as quick to become ecommerce mainstays — mailing a live tree will never be as simple as shipping at T-shirt, for example. The numbers speak for themselves: Online sales of alcohol in the U.S. were up 80% last year, approaching $5.6 Easier said than done, of course.

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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. Maximize the fixed costs associated with running an ecommerce business.