Dimensional Weight Pricing

/ Claire Eastburn

Dimensional Weight Pricing

In January 2015, FedEx and UPS announced that they were shifting to a dimensional weight pricing structure for every box size. This pricing method allows carriers to account for the amount of space being used on their trucks, especially by bulky and oversized packages. Furthermore, carriers believe that dimensional (DIM) weight pricing will force retailers and customers to reduce the size of their packaging, since many e-commerce retailers are shipping lighter items in oversized packaging.

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ShipHawk for Online Auctions

/ Claire Eastburn

ShipHawk for Online Auctions

Auctions have played an integral role in the human experience and have become a major part of the modern economy. From the earliest days of the auction house, buyers would travel from all over the world for the opportunity to bid on items that were both prolific and obscure to the most mundane and trivial trinkets of commerce. Regardless of what was was being sold, one thing became clear: people love a good auction.

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How to Attract Customers through Shipping

/ Claire Eastburn

How to Attract Customers through Shipping

Every e-commerce business owner is looking for ways to improve conversion rates and appeal to more customers. Offering creative shipping options has quickly become a way to attract customers, increase shopping cart value, and convert more sales.

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Why Online Buyers Abandon Shopping Carts

/ Claire Eastburn

Shopping Cart Abandonment

Almost everyone can relate to that feeling of spending hours perfecting your online shopping cart, only to end up abandoning it. According to BI Intelligence, almost $4 trillion worth of merchandise will be abandoned and left unpurchased this year alone.* This figure is especially troubling for online retailers, who want to prevent this sudden shopping cart abandonment and are looking for reasons why consumers suddenly abandon shopping carts.

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