10 Ways to Grow Your Shopify Store Fast
Shopify is known for their easy set-up and built-in commerce tools. It’s why many owners turn to the software to start their online business. Growing your Shopify store though can be a different story. While all the tools are there for you, it takes more than just great software to build a thriving online business.
It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been selling online, there’s always ways to improve your business. Here’s our top 10 tips to grow your store on Shopify.
(more…)Everything You Need to Know about Partial Shipment
(This article was last published on June 29th, 2016. It has been updated for accuracy and completeness.)
You can’t always ship an entire order at once. You might even prefer to ship items separately to ensure they arrive on-time. Some items could ship from a service like Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) while others are fulfilled from your own warehouse.
Fulfillment of a single order in multiple shipments is referred to as partial shipment. While often necessary, it’s difficult to monitor on the backend of your operations. How do you track partial shipments in your systems? How do you ensure orders are mark completed only once all items are fulfilled?
Before executing partial shipment, you’ll need to know what the process is, why it’s important to get it right, and the best way to do it.
(more…)What We’re Reading: Demand Forecasting and Virtual Selling
This week we’re reading about how to forecast inventory demand, the benefits of virtual selling, and how to forecast demand during COVID-19. Read the articles below!
(more…)How to Navigate Your Online Business Through COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic forces stay at home orders, businesses around the globe can no longer operate as normal and must rely on online selling. For the past several weeks, merchants have had to learn on the fly how to overcome the unique challenges they face. How do they serve customers through online channels only? How do you market to customers during a crisis? How do you prepare your supply chain for today and the uncertainty in the coming months?
Almost all merchants are facing these problems together, and many are sharing their insights with others. To help, we put together our top list of tips to help your online business navigate the unique challenges of this time.
(more…)How to Choose the Best B2B eCommerce Platform for Your Business
(This post was originally published on April 4th, 2019. It has been updated for accuracy and completeness.)
According to Forrester, US B2B eCommerce is expected to reach $1.8 trillion and account for 17% of all B2B sales in the US by 2023. B2B eCommerce is on pace to be twice the size of B2C eCommerce.
However, many B2B sellers are still in their infancy for building out strategic online channels. So far most have been slow to adopt eCommerce best practices. If there’s one thing to learn from B2C selling, it’s how crucial it is to choose the right platform to power your online business.
This article aims to show B2B merchants the role eCommerce technology plays in building a user-friendly online experience and how to evaluate which B2B eCommerce platform is best for your business. (more…)
