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Hello , Today I went to the ECommerce summit at the Hilton hotel in Brussels. A selection of speakers from Belgium and abroad entered the spotlights. Some brought us intresting insights others were genuinley boring. Always the same statements and chit chat. Speakers who are still wondering if society is changing ...please don't. At least 5 speakers confirmed us that we are living in a changing society and that change is a fact. Moreover, with more than one billion smarthphones being used all over the world, the mobile shopping trend will be increasing rapidly especially because mobile payments are taking off. Further key words this afternoon were, social commerce, social selling, digital marketing and the generation of market places.

The price of parcel delivery is driven by a number of supply and demand factors, and the price online shoppers pay e-retailers for cross-border parcel delivery does not reflect the prices charged by delivery operators. 

Did you know that 75% of online shoppers look at shipping costs before deciding whether to go ahead with a purchase? Not surprisingly, high delivery costs are the main reason for e-shoppers to abandon a filled shopping cart. But when customers are well informed and shipping goes without a hitch, they’re more likely to make future orders. What’s more, happy customers are more likely to write positive reviews and spread the word on social media, becoming your ambassadors. In short, taking care of your delivery and return process ensures you free marketing. In this white paper you will discover how the delivery and return can impact the entire customer’s e-commerce journey.

Internationally renowned author, Susan Jeffers, has helped millions of people around the globe to overcome their fears and heal the pain in their lives. Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway will give you the insight and tools to vastly improve your ability to handle any given situation. You will learn to live your life the way you want - so you can move from a place of pain, paralysis and depression to one of power, energy and enthusiasm. This inspiring modern classic has helped thousands turn their anger into love - and their indecision into action - with Susan Jeffers' simple but profound advice to 'feel the fear and do it anyway'.

Interesting article on decision making. Useful tips on how to be more effective and succesfull in the way you make your decisions. I personally recommend to read this article and start using these key points as from your next decision meaning as from now!  Every entrepreneur has to be a decision-maker, even with information overload, emotional employees, angry customers and competitors hovering from every direction. Making a decision without thinking or over-thinking things to the point of no decision are both deadly in business. The challenge is to find the right balance and make good and timely decisions every time.

Promising figures Italian e-commerce has started off well with a set of promising figures: • 14 million online consumers at the end of 2013 • 20% more e-shoppers than last year • E-commerce sales revenue of 11.2 billion euros • A smartphone penetration rate of 53% • M-commerce growth of 210%

Clothing is functional and essential, but also a mark of status and identity. Small wonder, then, that apparel is the  world’s biggest cross-border e-commerce category , according to PayPal’s Spice Routes report. Worth €9.33 billion a year, it accounts for the largest share of overseas e-commerce transactions in five of six markets examined—the US, China, the UK, Germany and Australia.

Amazon.com Inc's China arm has registered as an ocean freight forwarder, according to the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission, a move that will give it more control over shipping products from Chinese factories to U.S. shoppers.  Amazon, new freight forwarder Its new status as a freight forwarder, or “ non-vessel operating common carrier ,” gives Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, a foothold in the $350 billion a year ocean freight business. It will not operate ships but subcontract that work. Amazon  is already negotiating a deal to  lease 20 jets to start an air-delivery service  in the United States. The retailer  bought truck trailers to add shipping capacity  and started a program last year that uses a  f leet of on-demand drivers to deliver packages . More than 10.000 parcels in a single container More than 10,000 parcels can fit in a single container, so the price for the ocean freight leg could be as low as $0.135 ...

In general, outsourcing your order fulfillment offers the following advantages.

The following article gives you an insight on the pro's and con's of outsourcing ecommerce fulfillment. Strangely the arguments pro are also the arguments contra for outsourcing this activity. It's all about know- how, convenience, speed shipment and saving on cost for logistics. So basicly it's up to you and your company to determine what to do. Either which way you go make a good analysis of your situation, your business and your customers. Good luck