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5 Quick Tips for Shipping Internationally

5 Quick Tips for Shipping Internationally

Cross-border online sales may account for a significant portion of total ecommerce orders in just the next few years, according... 5 Comments | Read More »

7 Ways to Improve a Customer’s Shipping Experience

7 Ways to Improve a Customer’s Shipping Experience

Shipping can be one of the most stressful parts of an online transaction. The customer has already paid for a product, but does... 3 Comments | Read More »

How to Monitor, Prevent Fulfillment Errors

How to Monitor, Prevent Fulfillment Errors

Ecommerce companies typically focus on acquiring traffic and selling a wide range of products that shoppers will actually buy. ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Reducing Excess Inventory to Free-up Capital

Reducing Excess Inventory to Free-up Capital

Reducing excess inventory, even at a loss, can free-up capital and help a small online retailer grow. Slow selling products si... 3 Comments | Read More »

10 Drop Shipping Resources

10 Drop Shipping Resources

Drop shipping is an order fulfillment technique in which merchandise is shipped to the customer directly from the warehouse or ... 7 Comments | Read More »

Reviewing your Ecommerce Business at Year End

Reviewing your Ecommerce Business at Year End

Many ecommerce businesses owners will soon perform a year-end count of their product inventory. For many merchants, this proces... 1 Comment | Read More »

30 Shipping Resources for Small Businesses

30 Shipping Resources for Small Businesses

The major shipping organizations in the U.S. — UPS, DHL, FedEx and U.S. Postal Service — provide many easy-to-use online tools ... 1 Comment | Read More »

3 Tips for Holiday Returns and Exchanges

3 Tips for Holiday Returns and Exchanges

When the giddy days of holiday sales end, online retailers frequently need to deal with the inevitable returns and exchanges ba... 3 Comments | Read More »

Strategies for Free Shipping

Strategies for Free Shipping

With the holidays quickly approaching, it's a good time to review your shipping strategies. Free shipping is ubiquitous as ever... 4 Comments | Read More »

Descriptive Product Content Produces Sales

Descriptive Product Content Produces Sales

My wife and I are opening a new business. We are buying a lot of equipment, and I’ve spent more time shopping on ecommerce site... 1 Comment | Read More »

Use a PIM to Manage Cross-Channel Product Details

Use a PIM to Manage Cross-Channel Product Details

As an online retail business grows, managing product data can become a monumental task. Product information management solution... 1 Comment | Read More »

3 Tips for Making Better Product Decisions

3 Tips for Making Better Product Decisions

Purchasing inventory wisely is an important part of any online retail business, since buying too little of a product might leav... 3 Comments | Read More »

How to Reduce Picking and Packing Errors

How to Reduce Picking and Packing Errors

The picking and packing of ecommerce orders can be repetitive, mistake-prone work. But a well-designed workflow, using complem... 3 Comments | Read More »

3 Ideas to Reduce Shipping Costs

3 Ideas to Reduce Shipping Costs

Shipping policies can help make an Internet merchant successful. But shipping also is one of the largest cost centers. Amazon, ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Reduce Shipping Costs with Hybrid Services

Reduce Shipping Costs with Hybrid Services

Consumers increasingly expect free shipping for ecommerce purchases. But as fuel prices continue to fluctuate greatly and the e... 5 Comments | Read More »

Dropship.com Co-founder on Pros, Cons of Drop Shipping

Dropship.com Co-founder on Pros, Cons of Drop Shipping

Drop shipping is the process of selling an item that is then shipped by a manufacturer or wholesaler. Many ecommerce merchants ut... 1 Comments | Read More »

Drop Shipping: The Good and The Bad

Drop Shipping: The Good and The Bad

Drop shipping may help online retailers increase sales and profits. But the strategy is not without problems — ranging from gat... 8 Comments | Read More »

Changes at the USPS

Changes at the USPS

Editor's Note: We welcome John Haber as our newest contributor. A shipping and supply-chain authority, he is the founder and CE... 3 Comments | Read More »

The Future of Regulated Mail, and Ecommerce Shipping

The Future of Regulated Mail, and Ecommerce Shipping

People don’t write letters these days. They send emails. In the U.K., this has produced big changes in the state-owned Royal M... 5 Comments | Read More »

How to Reduce Ecommerce Shipping Costs

How to Reduce Ecommerce Shipping Costs

Strategies and ideas to reduce shipping expense appeal to most every ecommerce merchant. We recently spoke with John Haber, fou... 9 Comments | Read More »

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