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