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How to nail online shopping sales as an Ecommerce business owner

Prepping for an online sale takes time. Let’s get prepared!
There’s no denying it – prepping for an online shopping sale takes time and effort. It’s crucial to start planning well ahead of the sale – from six weeks to more than 6 months in advance.
Consider this – people start searching “Christmas gift ideas” in August, four months ahead of Christmas Day.
If that doesn’t scream “PREPARE YOUR CAMPAIGN EARLY”, we don’t know what does.

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Get the Best Courier Rates, Even Faster: 5 Tips for Members

Three things every business wants from shipping: the best couriers, the lowest rates, and a fast, hassle-free booking process.
While we take pride in delivering on those areas, we’re always working to improve on them (and more).
Plus, the biggest savings — not just on rates, but on time and efficiency — can be found in our Member’s Area.
It’s kind of like Gold Class. But free. (BYO popcorn.)
Ready to streamline your shipping? Sign into our Members Area and give these tips a go.

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What you need to know about Shopify shipping & fulfilment options in Australia

Shopify is well known as one of the best ecommerce platforms on the market – and for good reason.
There are over 820 000 businesses using Shopify.
The platform is very user friendly and has a bunch of features to help the budding ecommerce entrepreneur.
Those businesses have sold over $100 billion on the platform and there were 218 million buyers on the platform in the last year. In 2020, Shopify doubled in size! That’s a whole lot of goods that have to be delivered and packages to ship.

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“Skip the Queue” on Support

Skip the Queue on 5 Top Customer Support FAQs

With tens of thousands of deliveries each day, and shipping volume at historic highs, a few bumps in the road are sure to occur, even when using Australia’s leading courier services.
While our friendly Customer Care representatives do their best to help our Transdirect Members and customers, at select times, high call volumes can extend assistance wait times.
That’s why we’ve made it easier and quicker to “skip the queue” of phone support with the most common booking-related issues on our Contact Us page.

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Save Time, Stay Focused: Proven Tips for At-Home Ecommerce Sellers

You’ve got a big idea, and the drive to grow it, but how can you set up a home office for your ecommerce business?
While there are multiple factors to consider, and no single formula for getting it right, here are some of our best bets to help you become both more productive, and more profitable.
How Create a Better Workspace at Home
Designating a single area as your work-at-home space can enable you to get the most out of your day.

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Transdirect Service News & Updates: December 2020

Here we are in the holiday home stretch, after a year none of us could have predicted.
As 2020 wraps up, more than ever, our Transdirect team wishes to thank our members and customers for entrusting us to help support their businesses. Our courier partners have also faced massive challenges and constraints this year, and kept forging ahead to meet the new demands this year put on shipping and delivery logistics.
While many businesses found ways to adapt and thrive despite months of restrictions,

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Transdirect Service News & Updates: November 2020

The online holiday shopping (and shipping) season is heating up by the day.
With Christmas and Boxing Day just weeks away, our newest services and updates are here to help you de-stress your silly season, whilst you grow your ecommerce and retail sales.
Here are three ways to maximise our courier services, plus a reminder about shipping delays and cutoff times given this year’s ongoing delivery challenges.
 

1. Free Ecommerce Integrations: Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, eBay and more
Do you know how easy it is to plug the best shipping and courier rates and booking options into your ecommerce stores?

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How to Grow Sales Faster with Pre-Order Campaigns

How to grow sales faster with preorder transdirect

Planning to boost your holiday revenue this year with pre-order sales?
If so, you’ll want to check out these proven strategies to maximise results with pre-orders.
Note: If you hadn’t considered pre-order sales for this year, you can still make it happen … but you’ll need to act fast!

Benefits of Pre-Order Sales Campaigns

Before diving into the details and tactics, let’s break down the biggest benefits of pre-order sales strategies. These benefits apply to brand-new products and re-release launches.

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Reducing Product Returns: 12 Ways to Minimise Costs and Maximise Customer Satisfaction

Reducing Product Returns 12 ways to maximise profit

The cost of merchandise ‘return’ deliveries in the Asia-Pacific region was $256.4 billion USD in 2019. Worldwide it reached over $1 trillion USD.
Returns are more than just a pain point for ecommerce businesses, they’re downright costly.
While we can’t expect to eliminate product returns completely, how we manage returns can be the difference between growing a loyal repeat-customer base, and losing customers that can easily shop elsewhere online.
Ultimately, we want to focus on a customer’s lifetime value over individual sales.

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Enhance Your Brand: 5 Steps to Revitalise Bland Product Descriptions

Developing a brand that your customers can relate to is an important step in building a loyal customer base. Businesses that fail to develop an authentic ‘voice’ can wind up sounding robotic, generic, or worse, insincere.
But while many businesses work hard to establish their brand identity through social media, emails and web copy, there’s one place that’s often overlooked …. Product descriptions!
Every product description is an opportunity to offer your customers a little taste of your brand,

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