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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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Free Shipping vs. Discounted Price: Which Fulfillment Pricing Strategy Is Better?

ChannelAdvisor

and includes free shipping; the other is $44.91, plus $5.08 for standard shipping. It’s the exact same price, presented two different ways. It’s a common conundrum among online sellers: Is it better to offer free shipping and charge higher prices to cover fulfillment costs? One is $49.99

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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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How Does Google Shopping Work?

SellBrite

Google Shopping refers both to Google’s comparison shopping network and to their advertising platform. Here’s how it works: Google Shopping: The Comparison Shopping Engine. When we refer to Google Shopping, we’re actually talking about two interconnected platforms. Google’s comparison shopping engine.

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

Kissmetrics

After all, if Messenger isn’t linked to your site, it can’t reflect product updates, price changes and other information you need it to have. Customers contact, shipping, and payment info will be pulled automatically from their Messenger profile if they’ve set it up. They are the perfect, cost-effective option for nurturing leads.

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How Upsellit Maximizes Revenue for Home & Decor Brands

UpSellIt

This is the perfect solution whether you want to remind them of a promotion you’re running, bring seasonal markdowns to their attention, let them know they’ve qualified for free shipping, or just about anything else. Additionally, the abandoning shoppers were reminded of the free shipping incentive available.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Propelled by new technologies and heightened consumer demand, some segments that had been slower to gain traction online finally moved into the digital fast lane — cars , adult beverages and even trees , to name just a few. Wine alone is $80 billion dollars of off-premise — that is, non-restaurant, non-bar — sales in the United States.