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New services alert: Couriers Please & Fastway Multi-Tiered pricing
We’ve found it. The holy grail of nationwide delivery with free tracking and heavy discounts. Image: giphy Transdirect has teamed up with Couriers Please and Fastway to create new domestic, nationwide parcel delivery services, complete with: Reliable tracking Conditional warranty up to $1,000 for Couriers Please and up to $1,500 for Fastway (included in the price) Full access to POPPoint Locations throughout Australia through Couriers Please Discounts for parcel pickups of more than 5, 10 or 21 items.
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Shoppable Instagram: how to boost your sales revenue with social stories
Instagram is quickly proving itself as a rich retail market for savvy ecommerce businesses. New functionality including the recently launched ‘checkout’ and ‘tap-to-reveal’ features mean that the social platform’s more than 1 billion users now have a direct pathway from product discovery to purchase. That’s making it easier than ever for ecommerce retailers to sell their products directly through a shoppable Instagram platform — but there’s more to it than simply posting tagged photos of your products and expecting the big bucks to start rolling in.
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Googys: How Transdirect helped this protein business pack a bigger punch
If there’s one thing customers love from an online store, it’s free shipping. Our friends over at Googys know this well. According to new data on customer loyalty, 61% of customers are motivated to test out a new brand or product if a business offers free shipping. If there’s no free shipping, the same amount of customers are inclined to abandon cart! That’ll scramble your business growth potential! Yep, there’s serious potential in offering free shipping.
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2 ways your accounts team will benefit from the Transdirect Members Area
Tax time can be stressful – there’s no doubt about it. In the weeks leading up to tax time, business owners start scrambling to find receipts, invoices, statements, financial data and more. Then, it’s time to grab a calculator and start punching numbers or, alternatively, you can have an accountant do the hard yards for you. Frankly, we know what we’d rather be doing than our taxes. Image: giphy If you’re a top bloke or gal,
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How to get the most out of our convenient contact page
At Transdirect, our customer service team is fast-acting and dedicated to solving customer queries. We want running a business and shipping to customers to be as smooth as the bonnet of a Porsche. However, sometimes calling the customer service line isn’t the fastest and most efficient solution. Your time is better spent elsewhere – we know that – which is why we’ve developed a super-interactive contact page where you can find answers fast. Our contact page is packed with useful information and touch-points to solve a range of FAQs.
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Case Study: 3 brands with brilliant eco-friendly packaging ideas
The human race has a serious problem with plastic. There are an estimated 5.25 trillion plastic particles weighing 268,940 tonnes floating around in the ocean. Plus, every hour, 200,000 plastic bags are dumped in landfill. We use more than four billion single-used plastic bags annually, which is more than ten million a day… but it’s not just plastic bags. It’s straws, cling-wrap, food wrappers and, unfortunately, postage bags. Plastic can take up 450 – 1,000 years to decompose,
By gorilla360
3 new innovations In Ecommerce you need right Now
Remember travelling out of town to find a gift because the local stores didn’t have it? Or putting in a mail order from a magazine? It’s amazing to think just three decades ago, online orders weren’t even a thing. No online shopping. No ecommerce. No Afterpay, Paypal, Zippay, or Apple Pay. You’d have to make a trek and a half just to get a cashmere jumper from David Jones. Shopping has become an instantaneous process in 2019.
By gorilla360
3 reasons to blog In 2019
Blogging is one of those tasks every business owner knows they *should* do. It’s a great idea – you can build relationships, push those edgy customers further down the sales cycle and generate more visibility for your business. It is, however, an investment of your time and resources – blogs are also not directly tied to sales, which can make it hard to show the value of them when justifying the hours and resources dedicated to their development.
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Three life-changing pieces of software to resuscitate your business in 2019!
If you read our blog on setting business goals in 2019, you’ll know how excited we get about clever technology to help streamline and improve your business. It can get overwhelming trying to find the right technologies and software to give your business the boost it needs, so we’ve sourced some of the best for you. Below we have three different types of software to help take your business from drab to fab in 2019 –
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Become a Transdirect whizz with the “How To Use Transdirect” ebook
Thinking of joining Transdirect’s exclusive Members’ Area? Congratulations!! You’re about to make shipping much simpler for yourself, your business and your customers. You’re also going to minimise the amount of time you spend per week on needless administrative tasks like booking and managing couriers, tracking items for customers, and answering customer queries about the cost of shipping. Business owners and executives spend an average of 21.8 hours per week on time-wasting, low-value and no-value activities. With Transdirect’s Members’ Area,
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5 News Years resolutions that will help small business owners smash 2019!
The new year is well and truly upon us and among the classic new year fitness fanatics, we have the parents who are determined to be more “mindful” in their school holiday activities and the Instagram addicts who have sworn off spending every waking minute adding to their stories in the new year. #goodluck Yes, the new year really brings out the best in everyone. The new year doesn’t have to be filled with unachievable New Year’s resolutions –
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Review historical statements & invoices In Transdirect’s Members Area
Tax time can be a stressful time for ecommerce business owners. Orders come in from all over the world, sometimes hundreds of times per day. Keeping track of all the invoices and statements from couriers, customers and suppliers can be overwhelming. Finding that one unpaid statement from three months ago? Forget it. Put it in the too-hard basket. To heck with the accountants. Image: giphy At Transdirect, we want to help keep track of records, from customer orders to invoices and statements.
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