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7 Ways Retailers Can Make Free Shipping Profitable

One of the most important and potentially expensive decisions that an online retailer can make is whether or not to offer free shipping. Few decisions can increase conversions as much. And fewer still can increase expenses as much either. Find out how online retailers can transform free shipping from a money loser into a profit center.

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7 Ways to Turn Post-Purchase Interactions into New Sales

The probability of selling to an existing customer is 60 percent to 70 percent, compared with the 5 percent to 20 percent chance of selling to a new customer, according to the White House Office of Consumer Affairs. With that in mind, we recently shared important marketing tips on how to engage post-purchase customers to drive higher sales and CLTV.

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Why Online Retailers Must Offer Date-Certain Shipping This Holiday Season

This holiday season, ecommerce merchants will face the toughest retail environment they’ve ever encountered, with Amazon poised to capture nearly 50% of U.S. online sales. Date certain shipping is one of Amazon’s key differentiators. FedEx, UPS, and even the US Postal Service, provide their customers with real-time shipment updates.

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BigCommerce Enterprise Order & Inventory Management Software

As BigCommerce merchants grow, some processes that worked well at $5mm in revenue break down as they approach $10mm. Order fulfillment and inventory management are hit hard by growth, significantly impacting customer satisfaction and profitability. Find out four ways Order & Inventory Management software transforms these challenges into growth opportunities.

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The 9 Deadly Sins of a Light Order Management System

Many retailers learn the hard way that a “light” order management system can be growth’s enemy #1. It’s not that a light OMS does anything bad. It’s just that there are too many important tasks it will refuse to do. What crimes against your bottom line does the lite OMS commit? Read on to learn 9 ways a Light OMS hurts retail profits.

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Omnichannel Insights: 3 Retailers Who Are Getting it Right

Multichannel commerce reached an epic milestone in 1925 -- when Sears opened it’s first store, 40 years after launching its mail order catalog. Today, retailers struggle to delight customers as their shopping journeys skip from online, to stores to mobile devices. See how REI, Oasis Fashions, and Crate & Barrel are getting omnichannel retail right.

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