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As work slows down, the holiday season can give entrepreneurs more time to focus, reflect and recharge. Here are a few ways to embrace the holiday season this year.

Hello readers, PFSweb is a 3PL company serving both direct-to-consumer (D2C) and business-to-business (B2B) initiatives, providing services to more than 60 clients who operate in a range of national and international markets including technology manufacturers, apparel, luxury goods, home improvement, home décor, collectibles, food & beverage, beauty & health, aviation, and consumer electronics, among others. Headquartered in Allen, TX, PFSweb, Inc. is a leading provider of eCommerce and multichannel outsourcing solutions for global consumer brands, online retailers, and technology manufacturers.

Hello readers, The following article is intresting for several reasons. Retailers always try to win heart & minds of their customers. Since so much is riding on online holiday shopping, retailers need to put their knowledge of shopper mindset to work, shaping the way products are psychologically framed to meet the emotional needs of uncertain shoppers. The writer determins 5 tactics that will help retailers win consumers' heart en minds.

When you’re passionate about your job it feels as though you could happily work for free, but let’s face it, working for free can’t pay the bills. Neither does working for a discount. Discounting your services makes sense from a marketing and sales perspective when you need to attract new business, but you may wind up driving yourself out of business if you continually give away your services or undercut your competitors. 

Definition of bankrun according to wikipedia A  bank run  (also known as a  run on the bank ) occurs when, in a  fractional-reserve banking  system (where banks normally only keep a small proportion of their assets as cash), a large number of customers withdraw cash from  deposit accounts  with a financial institution at the same time because they believe that the financial institution is, or might become,  insolvent ; and keep the cash or transfer into other assets, such as government bonds,  precious metals  or  stones For your information, this is NOT what this article is about! This article is about our subcontractors and delivering flyers in the city of Brussels.

There are several reasons why traditional warehouses are not best suited to e-commerce logistics.  Firstly, the choice of online consumers is no longer limited to the products available in the shop. Consumers want to be able to order any product at any moment in any quantity. As a consequence, there is a shift in supply-chain thinking from “push” to “pull”. In a push model, suppliers “push” their products to consumers through the distribution channel. In the pull model, consumers create the demand and suppliers respond.

A successful transition to outsourcing with a 3PL is a process that depends on a variety of factors that differ from business to business. The decision to outsource will depend on the company's operation plans, goals, product lines, expansion, acquisitions, etc. Before making this decision, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive study and document the advantages, challenges and cost benefits of outsourcing.

Leipzig is believed to have Slavic origins in history.  The city is mostly known to tourists and especially classical music listeners as the hometown of the famous composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach. The Old Town Hall of Leipzig is considered to be one of the biggest Renaissance treasures in Germany.  DHL express invited their top 10 clients for a visit to the European hub in Leipzig.Our clients were given the opportunity to  learn more about our operational systems as well as learn about the importance,  our European HUB in Leipzig can play in the  business development of their company .

Some of our customers (especially large companies) may receive international shipments on a regular basis delivered by several different logistics providers. In this situation they may prefer to have a single customs broker performing all their clearance instead of the carrier. To support this requirement, DHL can initiate the Handover to Broker procedure.

In some countries, local authorities can demand an official declaration of shipments exported from that country. DHL can handle this formality on behalf of a customer. It is known as Export Declaration

Our business customers do not only ship with us, but also regularly receive shipments delivered by DHL. As most of these shipments are sent on a DTU basis (import duties and taxes unpaid), they can ask DHL to automatically cover all import duties and taxes and bill for them later. This service is known as Disbursement .

The first few minutes of your workday are critical to your productivity for the next eight hours. If you show up late to the office or get sucked into an overflowing inbox, you could easily get thrown off and have a hard time focusing for the rest of the day.