Packaging Tips: How to Package your Products for Delivery
Why does packaging matter? Whether you’re selling small, portable items like water bottles or big, heavy ones like treadmills, packaging your product properly allows you to save money and retain more customers. Generally, the longer the package is in transit, the more mishaps it can encounter. Good packaging protects your shipment until it reaches your …
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Less Than Truckload Shipping: A Complete Guide
Small businesses need to get their products safely to their distributors, retailers, and customers all over the country. They place their goods in boxes, crates or pallets in order to avoid damage during transit and, hopefully, they also deliver these on time. LTL shipping solves this challenge and is the ideal method for business owners …
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Expedited Shipping: Everything you need to know
After getting your customer to click the “Add to Cart” button, now you have to ship their order to them. But even at the checkout portion, you can still lose a sale because they don’t like the shipping options. Don’t let all your marketing efforts go to waste by having short delivery times with expedited …
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What is FOB in Shipping?
There’s a lot of abbreviated trade terms found in international shipping contracts that describe a lot of relevant matters like time and location of delivery, method of payment, transfer of ownership of goods, and who pays the freight charges and insurance. The most common trade terms are incoterms (published by the International Chamber of Commerce) …