Inventory & Shipping
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 ... 4 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... 5 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 »
The Ins And Outs Of Importing
Importing can provide your ebusiness with cutting-edge products at rock-bottom prices. But it's a complicated process, and not ... 2 Comments | Read More »
Shipping Charges: Compromises Required
You would think online stores would have found it easier by now to calculate and charge accurate shipping fees, let alone set u... 3 Comments | Read More »
Digital Assets: What Are They, And How Are They Sold?
Digital assets, often called digital content, are products that can be consumed via an electronic handheld device or used onlin... 9 Comments | Read More »
The Basics of Importing Products From Overseas
Everyone knows there are great deals to be found overseas — items that can be picked up for a fraction of the cost. But what mo... 12 Comments | Read More »
How To Find Products To Sell For Your Online Operation
If you want to know how to succeed at something, it's a good idea to talk to someone who already has. Renowned eBay powerseller... 15 Comments | Read More »
Don’t Let Selling Internationally Scare You
Matt Alper launched Copshoes.com three years ago from his living room in San Antonio, Texas. His idea was to sell specialized s... 9 Comments | Read More »
Customer Experience Matters
After more than a decade of ecommerce activity and an arsenal of new technology at our disposal, it's still the basics that mos... 3 Comments | Read More »
Product Sourcing: Six Questions
If you’ve got a question about your ebusiness, someone else has probably already asked it. Matt Hedges, customer support manage... 1 Comment | Read More »
What Should I Sell Online?
Everyone who starts an ebiz faces the question: What do I sell? And most everyone seems to make two classic mistakes in the beg... 8 Comments | Read More »
