Ecommerce Tips
How to nail online shopping sales as an Ecommerce business owner
Prepping for an online sale takes time. Let’s get prepared! There’s no denying it – prepping for an online shopping sale takes time and effort. It’s crucial to start planning well ahead of the sale – from six weeks to more than 6 months in advance. Consider this – people start searching “Christmas gift ideas” in August, four months ahead of Christmas Day. If that doesn’t scream “PREPARE YOUR CAMPAIGN EARLY”, we don’t know what does.
By transdirect
What you need to know about Shopify shipping & fulfilment options in Australia
Shopify is well known as one of the best ecommerce platforms on the market – and for good reason. There are over 820 000 businesses using Shopify. The platform is very user friendly and has a bunch of features to help the budding ecommerce entrepreneur. Those businesses have sold over $100 billion on the platform and there were 218 million buyers on the platform in the last year. In 2020, Shopify doubled in size! That’s a whole lot of goods that have to be delivered and packages to ship.
By transdirect
Save Time, Stay Focused: Proven Tips for At-Home Ecommerce Sellers
You’ve got a big idea, and the drive to grow it, but how can you set up a home office for your ecommerce business? While there are multiple factors to consider, and no single formula for getting it right, here are some of our best bets to help you become both more productive, and more profitable. How Create a Better Workspace at Home Designating a single area as your work-at-home space can enable you to get the most out of your day.
By Hunter
How to Grow Sales Faster with Pre-Order Campaigns
Planning to boost your holiday revenue this year with pre-order sales? If so, you’ll want to check out these proven strategies to maximise results with pre-orders. Note: If you hadn’t considered pre-order sales for this year, you can still make it happen … but you’ll need to act fast! Benefits of Pre-Order Sales Campaigns Before diving into the details and tactics, let’s break down the biggest benefits of pre-order sales strategies. These benefits apply to brand-new products and re-release launches.
By Hunter
Reducing Product Returns: 12 Ways to Minimise Costs and Maximise Customer Satisfaction
The cost of merchandise ‘return’ deliveries in the Asia-Pacific region was $256.4 billion USD in 2019. Worldwide it reached over $1 trillion USD. Returns are more than just a pain point for ecommerce businesses, they’re downright costly. While we can’t expect to eliminate product returns completely, how we manage returns can be the difference between growing a loyal repeat-customer base, and losing customers that can easily shop elsewhere online. Ultimately, we want to focus on a customer’s lifetime value over individual sales.
By Hunter
Enhance Your Brand: 5 Steps to Revitalise Bland Product Descriptions
Developing a brand that your customers can relate to is an important step in building a loyal customer base. Businesses that fail to develop an authentic ‘voice’ can wind up sounding robotic, generic, or worse, insincere. But while many businesses work hard to establish their brand identity through social media, emails and web copy, there’s one place that’s often overlooked …. Product descriptions! Every product description is an opportunity to offer your customers a little taste of your brand,
By Hunter
What’s a Shipping Policy and How Can it Boost Your Online Sales?
A shipping policy is a great way to help customers understand how and when their orders are going to be delivered, as well as how much it’s going to cost them. Being transparent about your shipping procedures helps build loyalty for your brand, reduces cart abandonment and can lower the volume of email queries from concerned customers. Here’s how you can polish up your shipping policy, and use it to support your online sales. What is a Shipping Policy exactly?
By Hunter
5 Ways eBay Sellers Can Save Big on Shipping in 2020
eBay sellers are experiencing a unique moment in 2020. The current global conditions are causing more people to shop online than ever before. Many believe that this is the moment that crystallizes Australia’s online shopping behaviour to become a regular, wide-spread habit. This means that retailers and small businesses have every reason to take eBay seriously. The popular online marketplace is the most used retail site in Australia, even before Coronavirus. The site garnered 194.9 million users between January and March 2019.
By Hunter
How Online Shopping has Changed in 2020
It’s been a big year for business owners, to say the least. But a ‘big year’ doesn’t necessarily have to be a ‘bad year’, especially for ecommerce. Recent changes in online shopping habits are opening up new opportunities for ecommerce stores unlike ever before. Here’s how online shopping has changed in 2020. More People are Online There are roughly 7.77 billion people on this planet, and as of July 2020 4.54 billion of them are active internet users.
By Hunter
5 Ways to Improve the Customer Experience (and Loyalty) with Packaging
When you think about a great customer experience in a brick-and-mortar store, you may find yourself picturing the friendly face at the front counter. Or the pleasant atmosphere as you walk in. Or even the charismatic staff member who answers the phone when you have a question. But most ecommerce stores have little to no direct contact with their customers, beyond what marketing, email, and their website can provide. To offer a great customer experience, sometimes you need to think outside the box.
By Hunter
10 ecommerce blogs & news sites to boost your knowledge & revenue
“A business is nothing other than the sum of thousands of tiny decisions, and each one of those decisions is critical to the success of your online business” – A Better Lemonade Stand. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Whether you’re new to the ecommerce industry, looking to start a business, or you’re an experienced entrepreneur looking to improve business performance, lots of little decisions need to be made to achieve online success. There’s a lot to learn in the way of ecommerce –
By transdirect
How a multi-carrier aggregated shipping model could increase your bottom line and save time
Have you ever wondered if you’re getting the best deal when you just shop at Woolworths? It’s a one-stop shop for all your daily necessities, but have you ever wondered if you pay the price for that? You may be sacrificing food quality or diversity by shopping at the one store. The same premise applies to working with a single courier. Yes they may be able to ship the majority of your orders across the nation,
By transdirect