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How to Pack and Protect an Ecommerce Shipment

How to Pack and Protect an Ecommerce Shipment

There are three main aspects to packaging for ecommerce shipments. Protection. Helps prevent d... 0 Comments | Read More »

Reducing Shipping Costs for Low-Volume Merchants

Reducing Shipping Costs for Low-Volume Merchants

The free-shipping era squeezes smaller merchants. They must match the shipping policies of larger... 4 Comments | Read More »

PetFlow.com: Customer Focus, Business Savvy Drives Success

PetFlow.com: Customer Focus, Business Savvy Drives Success

PetFlow is a subscription-based ecommerce business that sells pet food, including heavy bags of i... 2 Comments | Read More »

'Auto Ship' Programs Generate Repeat Sales; 2 Examples

'Auto Ship' Programs Generate Repeat Sales; 2 Examples

Many successful ecommerce businesses focus their marketing efforts on search engine optimization,... 0 Comments | Read More »

Notable Views: Fulfillment Outsourcing, Pros and Cons

Notable Views: Fulfillment Outsourcing, Pros and Cons

Editor's Note:"Notable Views” is a series where we ask leading experts to address critical, ecomm... 0 Comments | Read More »

38 Fees and Surcharges from FedEx and UPS

38 Fees and Surcharges from FedEx and UPS

When comparing shipping rates from FedEx and UPS, don’t forget to include fees and surcharges. Ea... 1 Comments | Read More »

5 Reasons to Consider Drop Shipping

5 Reasons to Consider Drop Shipping

Drop shipping is an order fulfillment strategy where the retailer does not keep products in inven... 9 Comments | Read More »

Comparing UPS, FedEx, and USPS: Which is Best Now?

Comparing UPS, FedEx, and USPS: Which is Best Now?

Shipping costs are an ongoing challenge for ecommerce merchants, who compete head-to-head over fr... 28 Comments | Read More »

5 Reasons to Consider Fulfillment Services

5 Reasons to Consider Fulfillment Services

Accounting, purchasing, marketing, and operations are all areas that online and multi-channel mer... 1 Comments | Read More »

Solving the Free Shipping Dilemma

Solving the Free Shipping Dilemma

For many merchants, free shipping is an effective online promotion. During the last holiday seaso... 4 Comments | Read More »

The New USPS.com: 5 Sections, Free Stuff

The New USPS.com: 5 Sections, Free Stuff

The U.S. Postal Service has redesigned USPS.com to make it faster and easier to do business. The ... 0 Comments | Read More »

How To Save Money On Shipping and Fulfillment

How To Save Money On Shipping and Fulfillment

Merchants know that the effort it takes to fulfill and ship out orders can be very time consuming... 5 Comments | Read More »

U.S. Agency Official on International Commerce

U.S. Agency Official on International Commerce

Many ecommerce merchants are attracted to selling products to consumers in other countries. But t... 1 Comments | Read More »

10 Mobile Shipping Apps for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android

10 Mobile Shipping Apps for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android

Shipping, tracking, and calculating time and cost of shipments are at the heart of ecommerce busi... 0 Comments | Read More »

Shopatron Platform: Manufacturers Sell Products and Retailers Fulfill Them

Shopatron Platform: Manufacturers Sell Products and Retailers Fulfill Them

Many ecommerce merchants sell products from large manufacturers and suppliers. Increasingly, thos... 0 Comments | Read More »

Survey Results: 46 Percent Say Free Shipping Increases Profits

Survey Results: 46 Percent Say Free Shipping Increases Profits

Free shipping is often touted as a surefire way to get more sales, but rolling shipping costs int... 6 Comments | Read More »

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