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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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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. Easier said than done, of course. And yet, the consumer demand is there, and it’s becoming hard for retailers to ignore, no matter their category.

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5 Decisions You Need To Take While Listing Products In Amazon

ChannelSale

For those that cannot access such softwares for cost related reasons may have to determine product relevance manually on their own. If you choose to go very lenient on aspects like packing and shipping charges or return and refund policies, you may see your listing beating competition like never before. Selling strategy –.

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4 Ways Businesses Can Use Shipping to Reduce Cart Abandonment

Retail TouchPoints

Also to blame are overly complex checkout processes, invalid discount codes, security concerns, questionable return policies, comparison shopping, etc. The list goes on, but one other barrier to purchasing seems to be a major sticking point for 63% of consumers : shipping costs. The True Cost of Shipping.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

Retalon

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. This product is shipped to the store where the customer picks it up. Payment, return, and exchange policies.

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Ecommerce Sales Funnel: Content Strategy to Increase Interest

ecomdash

By delivering some kind of value to a customer — whether through your content, store policies, prices, or exclusive products — you play up your business to them so they think favorably about your brand. Just like before, you want to flaunt the reasons customers should shop with you instead of your competitors. Customer Journey.

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7 Strategies to Convert Comparison Shopping Consumers

UpSellIt

With the eCommerce market as saturated as it is, comparison shopping has essentially become standard practice among consumers, and individual eCommerce brands can take a hit as a result. Let’s take a look at what comparison shopping is and how your business can combat it. What is Comparison Shopping?