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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. The ease of online shopping also gives consumers the ability to comparison shop more quickly, showing them more options in less time.

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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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Kibo Announces Ecommerce Quarterly Benchmarks for Q2 2020

Kibo

What we found is that different regions relied on different online channels such as mobile and desktop to browse, shop, and convert. Comparatively, in the United Kingdom, where mobile accounted for 75% of sessions, which was up from both the same quarter last year as well as Q1. Different Regions, Different Channels. In the U.S.,

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Shoppers’ In-Store and Online Expectations for 2019

Wiser

To learn more about the changes consumers are looking for in the coming year, Wiser has surveyed over 2,400 of our mobile app users about their 2019 shopping preferences. Comparison shopping is a very popular trend that only appears to be growing. 87% of respondents plan to use a mobile app to shop in 2019.

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What Should You Look for in an Ecommerce Platform?

Kibo

Native Personalization Capabilities Built-In Order Management API-First, Microservices Architecture Admin Tools and Settings Advanced Catalog Management Mobile-centricity SEO Friendliness 24/7 Support Pre-Integrated Payment Gateways Speed Easy-To-Use UI. Perhaps you only offer online shopping now, but plan to open stores in the future.

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Try This Test: Add a Prominent “Email Cart” Feature for High-Consideration Purchases

ROI Revolution

If so, you run the risk of losing mindshare as the buyer performs comparison shopping across the web. You can check them out below: Try This Test: Emphasize Free Shipping on Product Detail Pages. Try This Test: Featured Testimonial on Mobile Cart. confidence level. Try It Yourself.

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4 Ways Businesses Can Use Shipping to Reduce Cart Abandonment

Retail TouchPoints

Nearly 70% of carts end up abandoned online, and about 85% of mobile shoppers exhibit this behavior. While it’s easy to rationalize cart abandonment as a standard practice, it is much more than a modern-day version of window shopping. The True Cost of Shipping. Negotiate shipping rates. trillion in lost sales annually.