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How to Deal With Shipping Delays

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Shipping delays are inevitable even with the most efficient carriers. And when they happen, they tend to drive your customers away. Dealing with shipping delays is no rocket science but first, we’ll bust a few delay-related myths along the way to make it easier for you. Shipping Delays are More Common Than You Think.

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Package Delivery Satisfaction Ratings: Driving Customer Retention and Revenue Growth

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This is where the efforts taken up by brands to offer a great CX in the order delivery phase differ and have a profound impact on customer retention and revenue growth for businesses. In the long run, this leads to operational efficiency, cost savings, and improved customer experiences.

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Forrester: Seek New Revenue Sources to Avoid Commodity Price Wars

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers need to readjust their strategies business-wide as they prepare to meet empowered customers who have more choices than ever in a tough economy that’s giving them more reasons than ever to seek out the best price — wherever it may be. The result? Marketplaces Forcing Retailers to Get Unique.

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4 Post-Holiday Marketing Tactics for Customer Retention

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As mentioned in the last section, email marketing is a major success factor in customer retention and repeat purchases. Lifecycle email campaigns can be personalized on purchase frequency, lifecycle stage, and order history, which helps when it comes to driving past customers back to your site for a second or third purchase.

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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

Finding Partners to Tackle Fulfillment Complexities These developments are part of a larger trend of outsourcing fulfillment’s last mile, traditionally the most expensive leg of the product’s journey, to partners that specialize in mastering its complexities. The percentage using third-party companies also rose, from 29% to 38%.

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How to Use Data-Driven Customer Retention to Grow Revenue

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However, every ecommerce merchant reaches a tipping point where it makes more sense to focus on retention. Of course, creating a customer retention strategy is easier said than done—unless you have data to back it up. In this piece, we’ll cover what it means to create a data-driven customer retention strategy.

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How Speeding up Chargeback Resolutions can Boost Retailers’ Profits

Retail TouchPoints

These sorts of requests — known as chargebacks — are very expensive and time-consuming for all parties involved. In fact, there are roughly 615 million chargebacks happening every year and the average chargeback costs $191, which amounts to $117.46 billion per year. The issue is clear to see.