Inventory & Shipping
Order Fulfillment: "Kitting" Can Dramatically Slash Your Costs
The term “kitting” is order fulfillment jargon for preassembly of individual items into ready-to-ship kits instead of picking a... 0 Comments | Read More »
Inventory Management: Use 80-20 Rule, Test New Products
How do you decide what products to sell on your ecommerce store? And where do you buy the products? These are questions that mo... 0 Comments | Read More »
Truck-freight Shipping: How to Lower Your Costs
If you use truck freight to receive merchandise from your suppliers or to ship to your customers, and you suspect you are payin... 1 Comment | Read More »
Free Shipping: The How-to Economic Model
Free shipping is a growing trend in the ecommerce industry. As the owner of an ecommerce fulfillment company, I work with hun... 4 Comments | Read More »
Chart of the Week: The Value of Free Shipping
Consumers want it and merchants are increasingly offering free shipping. But, of course, shipping is not truly free. An ecom... 4 Comments | Read More »
Fulfillment: Guidelines for Outsourcing
As the owner of a fulfillment company, I’ve gathered a number of tips and discovered an assortment of traps over the years. If ... 2 Comments | Read More »
DHGate.com Sources China-made Products
DHGate.com is an online marketplace of wholesale products from China. The company is located in Beijing and Diane Wang is it... 1 Comment | Read More »
Shipping Rates: Flat Rate Boxes Usually Save Money
U.S. Postal Service flat rate envelopes and boxes can be a big money saver under the right circumstances. But you have to be ca... 2 Comments | Read More »
Shipping: Dimensional Weight Errors Can Cost Big Bucks
There are mistakes that can cost you when calculating shipping and handling fees. A big one is missing a UPS, FedEx or U.S. Pos... 3 Comments | Read More »
Shipping Rates: Comparison Shopping Saves Money
Miscalculating your shipping rates can cost you some big bucks. No matter your shipping volume, it is a good idea to comparison... 7 Comments | Read More »
Ecommerce Know-How: Alternative Sources to Acquire Inventory
While many ecommerce businesses trade only in new merchandise, there is a booming market for used, refurbished, and surplus ite... 0 Comments | Read More »
Is Five-Day USPS Delivery Coming?
Many online retailers depend on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to reliably deliver merchandise to customers, since the service ... 2 Comments | Read More »
Ecommerce Know-How: The Free Shipping Equation
In 2009, every major carrier in the United States will be raising shipping rates. Profit conscience online shopkeepers, theref... 12 Comments | Read More »
Amazon Exec On Outsourcing Fulfillment
Every ecommerce merchant must address, at least in some capacity, the issues of fulfillment. One merchant who does this in a b... 4 Comments | Read More »
Yugster.com Shares its Fulfillment Strategy
The old-school approach to order fulfillment doesn’t fly for many Internet retailers. Warehousing, packing, shipping, and retur... 2 Comments | Read More »
Effective Return Policies Save Money and Earn Business
If there is one thing that every online retailer hates and fears, it’s returns. Many great stores fight to keep return rates be... 3 Comments | Read More »
Order Fulfillment: Keep It Simple And Beware Of All The Costs
I used to manage the fulfillment operations of a mid-size online retail company. We adopted the “Why” method to correct and eli... 2 Comments | Read More »
Conversion: Proflowers.com Ranks High
When Nielsen Online releases its list of highest converting ecommerce websites, Proflowers.com is frequently in the top ten. Th... 10 Comments | Read More »
Exporting Your Products: First Learn The Terminology
To sell products overseas, you will need to learn the international buying and selling terminology, also referred to as "Incote... 2 Comments | Read More »
Getting Started In Exporting
Exporting can be a lucrative component of an online business. But many small business owners shy away from it simply because t... 3 Comments | Read More »
