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Make Customer Service Your Most Valuable Asset This Holiday Season

BigCommerce

On the other hand, the holiday season is also cause for pain and headaches when it comes to inventory management, high-volume shipping , advertising cost planning , and of course, customer service. But this still doesn’t account for the significant lift in customer service volume during the holiday season.

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As Consumer Demand for Inclusion Rises, Retailers Must Tackle Legacy Issues and Attitudes

Retail TouchPoints

As Marci noted, it’s “not just a one-off, box-ticking exercise. From research to garment creation, fitting with body shape in mind, marketing, in-store and online customer service, size-inclusive representation needs to be present at a decision-making level within the fashion industry,” Marci added.

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An In-depth Guide on Creating an Ecommerce Business Plan in 2020

Ecommerce Platforms

Bear in mind, the fact that the merchant needs to do some extra logistics planning and marketing as well. With the prevalence of brilliant research tools, a merchant can now do an intensive market analysis without any constraints. The logic here is that Google Trends uses search queries to sort the trending products and services.

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Next-gen vending machines: 5 reasons intelligent vending is trending in ecommerce

GetElastic

With 24/7 access and no service desk queues, pickup towers can retrieve orders in less than 30 seconds. But competitor Walmart isn’t wasting time taking advantage of testing them with first and third party delivery services such as crowdsourced platform Spark. Enter BOPIT: buy online, pick up in tower. Distributing convenience.

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Next-gen vending machines: 5 reasons intelligent vending is trending in ecommerce

GetElastic

With 24/7 access and no service desk queues, pickup towers can retrieve orders in less than 30 seconds. But competitor Walmart isn’t wasting time taking advantage of testing them with first and third party delivery services such as crowdsourced platform Spark. Enter BOPIT: buy online, pick up in tower. Distributing convenience.

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How to Create, Setup and Launch a Profitable Online Store (Seriously)

BigCommerce

Beyond other people potentially wanting to buy what you are selling (which is another exercise almost entirely), it is important that you consider the challenges in your product niche before you move forward with launching a store. What options do I have to accept payments? PCI compliance. Related product recommendations.

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Next-gen vending machines: 5 reasons intelligent vending is trending in ecommerce

GetElastic

With 24/7 access and no service desk queues, pickup towers can retrieve orders in less than 30 seconds. But competitor Walmart isn’t wasting time taking advantage of testing them with first and third party delivery services such as crowdsourced platform Spark. Enter BOPIT: buy online, pick up in tower. Distributing convenience.

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