The holidays are a stressful time in ecommerce. Your production goes into overdrive, you haven’t slept more than five hours a night since September, and a single weekend is about to make or break your fiscal year (sorry, but it's...
Another year, another ecommerce record smashed. According to Adobe Insights, online shoppers spent $24.2 billion over the BFCM weekend this year. Cyber Monday led the way with $7.9 billion in sales, followed by Black Friday at $6.2 billion. While merchants...
With so many sales for holiday shoppers to choose from, how do you make yours stand out? Is it absolutely necessary to steepen storewide discounts to 50% off? The answer is no. As a Shopify entrepreneur, you don’t need to...
If you’ve been through Black Friday and Cyber Monday (BFCM) as an online merchant before, you’re well aware of the stresses that come with it… “What do you mean my package is delayed at customs?” “How could the warehouse pick...
We love deals and discounts, and clearly we’re not alone. Shoppers are expected to drop an eye-popping $45 billion this Black Friday, with some of them camping out overnight or waking up at dawn to jostle fellow shoppers for cheap electronics, appliances,...
The following is an excerpt from The Shopify Merchant’s Guide to Holiday Engagement, a free eBook featuring 10 incredible Shopify experts. In this post, Andrew Chan, Co-Founder of AfterShip, shares some common misconceptions and best practices for shipping and fulfillment,...
Setting up your online store is just the first part of starting an ecommerce business. To really settle into your groove as a new online merchant, you have to solidify a supply chain and develop a strategy for filling and shipping orders in...
