eCommerce Blog Posts

A retail group is pushing Oct. 10 as 2020’s big shopping event. Could the 10.10 online shopping festival help your retail business’ 2020 holiday season? Read on for more details about 10.10, as well as information about how you can participate in this year’s answer to Black Friday.

A shipping label is a crucial component of the process of getting packages from here to there, safely and on time, but it’s such a small part of the sales and delivery process that it’s easy to overlook how important it is. Not any more! Get ready to dial down to the basics of this important shipping component and make sure you’re doing it right — for your business, for your products, and for your customers.

Are you ready to join the competition online and attract your share of customers and sales? In the past, creating an online presence meant hiring a team of experts who could handle the coding and bring their technical knowledge to your team. Today, all you need is access to a do-it-yourself website building service like Wix. Read on for a step by step guide to creating a site with Wix.

If you’re a small business owner looking to get a decent website up and running fast, Weebly could be a good option for you. Weebly is most known for delivering a simple, user-friendly service that almost anyone can use, even if you have zero experience working on websites. Read on for a step-by-step guide to setting up a store with Weebly.

Ready to launch your Squarespace website but not sure where to get started? Learn how to create a Squarespace website in four simple steps. We’ll walk you through everything from setting up an initial account, to adding products and images, to selecting a payment processor and more.

Free, fast shipping is great for consumers. Unfortunately, expectations around shipping cost and speed can present challenges for small business owners and their bottom lines. If you’re feeling the squeeze between your customers’ expectations and the reality of your shipping costs, you’re in the right place. This article will show you how to calculate shipping costs, trim them, and price your products to protect your profits.

Is there any way to make shipping easier, cheaper, and faster? What if you could print shipping labels from your own printer, add optional services like signature requirements, and send packages out with your own letter carrier? You can, thanks to a USPS shipping service called Click-N-Ship.

Signing up to sell online through Square is fast, free, and easy. But is it a move you should consider making? Whether you’re new to online sales or looking to jump from another eCommerce platform, we’ll show you how to get started with Square Online and how to make the most of your store.

While there are other online marketplaces catering to vendors of handmade goods, Etsy remains a top platform — and for good reason. It’s easy to sign up for Etsy, and Etsy provides a supportive community of artists and artisans that has drawn in more than 45 million active buyers since 2012. This article will share step-by-step instructions for setting up an Etsy shop and give you some tips you can use to start selling.

Shopify Plus is a fully hosted, cloud-based eCommerce platform aimed at high-volume merchants who anticipate large amounts of both traffic and sales. It’s fast — delivering unlimited bandwidth that can handle up to 3 million visitors per second and 10,978 orders per minute, with 99.99% uptime.