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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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10 E-Commerce Shipping Best Practices You Should Know

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The importance of a quality shipping experience in e-commerce cannot be stressed enough. This is primarily due to the fact that the post-purchase (shipping + delivery) takes up 50% of the overall delivery experience. You need to make sure that you don’t be like them because your customers will still blame you for shipping issues.

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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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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

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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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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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How to Optimize Your Business’ Contribution Margin Ratio

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Understanding the finances behind your business can help you increase your profits, cut back on expenses, and operate more smoothly. A contribution margin ratio is the difference between sales and variable costs within a company. The difference will then get used for fixed costs, like rent and insurance.

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Forrester: Seek New Revenue Sources to Avoid Commodity Price Wars

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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.