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Secret to Success: Fast and Free Shipping

By on February 11, 2013 in Featured

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Business Insider:

It’s quite simple: fast and free shipping closes deals. Looking for free shipping offers is a learned behavior by consumers, and they expect it – especially around holiday time. By offering special shipping promotions, buyers are more likely to purchase under the impression that they are saving money, somewhere.

Candidly, that means that you the merchant, need to figure out if you have the margin to offer free Shipping; where you can cut some costs; or, raise some prices to cover the cost of shipping.

One of the best ways to cut shipping costs, is to actually cut the cost of shipping. Shocking, I know. If you are shipping from 1 location today, there is a very good chance that you shipments over long distances can be cut. Putting inventory closer to buyers cuts the cost of shipping. Optimizing your best sellers by shipping from multiple warehouses is a huge cost savor. Plug your business volumes into our free shipping tool to see the cost savings.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    Very true. People are so focused on the “free shipping” deal, sometimes they won’t even notice that the price of the item is still higher than some other companies that do charge for shipping. It seems to be the thing that can win many customers over.

  • http://www.business-opportunities.biz Dane Carlson

    I know that my wife has taught me to shop online that way. I’ll buy something at Amazon because we have Amazon prime even if the price is higher because we get free two day shipping.

  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    I do the same thing for the same reason. I also have Amazon prime and I am addicted to faster shipping. Often I will just choose Amazon over another company for that reason. Also, I don’t usually find many places that can ship at the same speed for the same price.

  • http://www.thewebsurgery.com/ Grant Brookes

    Indeed, For a successful business venture the logistics do play one of the most important part> The major sites like Amazon, ebay are the two examples of how the effective Shipping can take your business to new heights!

  • http://www.unionpluscreditcardz.com Union Card

    True, free shipping is very attractive option for customers.