It’s no secret that the coronavirus changed the way we do business. Ecommerce order volumes soared to record highs while brick-and-mortar retailers were having to shut their doors. As you can imagine, retail giants like Walmart and Home Depot feel an intense pressure to innovate. We think the fight for survival in an eCommerce-driven world …
Holiday shipping is always stressful when you’re running an eCommerce company. Many stores receive most of their revenues in a very short time-frame, often no longer than a month. As you can imagine, that means shipping a lot of orders in a short amount of time! This would be stressful under normal circumstances, but as …
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Every Friday, we answer a common question about fulfillment, shipping, or business. This week’s question comes from a reply to one of our weekly emails. Today we will answer the following question: “how do I create a product prototype?” Create the Best Prototype You Can Alone For the purposes of this article, we are going …
When running an eCommerce store, one of the most attractive ways to earn sales is by improving your ranking in search engines like Google. Once you establish a foothold in the search engine results, it becomes much easier to pull in traffic. What is SEO? The process of improving your search engine ranking is called …
What is a payment gateway? A payment gateway is a way of sending and receiving payments for online purchases. It’s a software that processes the payment and facilitates the transfer of money from the customer to the merchant. It can carry out payments from credit cards, debit cards, eCheck (ACH), and even cryptocurrencies. Pros of …
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Brands and businesses are becoming more and more aware that their packaging serves a purpose beyond functionality; it is also a strategic and strong marketing tool for those who know how to wield it. Packaging boxes are even more of a necessity in online/eCommerce businesses, with every order having to be shipped in them. Forward-thinking …
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Standing out among the crowd of great products online is hard. This is true whether you run your own storefront with software like Shopify or sell items on marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, or Walmart. For that reason, many eCommerce store owners are starting to wrap their items in custom packaging. Even still, it can be …
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You might have heard about the increased international shipping rates as of July 1, 2020. After the United States floated the possibility of withdrawing from the Universal Postal Union, all parties reached a compromise that would allow the U.S. to set its own postage rates. Put into plain English: a lot of people are trying …
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Ecommerce is hotter than it’s ever been. With companies in many industries struggling to survive, eCommerce may provide an alternative to managing a brick-and-mortar storefront. We’ve talked before about how to set up an eCommerce store for the first time, but this week, we want to talk about how to retain eCommerce customers. In order …
The market goes up and the market goes down. This is a fact as inexorable as the sun rising and setting and waves forming on the sea. Yet so many are unprepared to run a business during a recession. Fulfillrite was born in 2009, right in the heart of what was at that point the …
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