Jake Rheude

Shipping charges tend to rise as your packages go further, and carriers determine how much your price scales by seeing how far you ship across their U.S. shipping zones. Carriers each carve up the continental map to create their list, with most dividing up the country into seven shipping zones numbered “2” through “8.” These shipping zones can impact both the cost and delivery speeds available for your goods.

Knowing U.S. shipping zones and how they’re calculated can help an eCommerce business[...]

When it comes to setting up an eCommerce business, shipping is a vital aspect that could make (or break) or business. 

Because eCommerce is all about ordering the product online and delivering it to your customers' doorsteps, shipping is essential. And, without the right shipping and delivery strategies, you won’t be able to satisfy your customers or create goodwill. 

So, what happens when a product is damaged during shipping or goes missing?

Well, that is where shipping insurance comes in. 

Sometimes it is the silent changes that can have the biggest impact on a business's ability to control cost and optimize spend wherever possible. The rates you pay to ship your goods to customers across the U.S. have shifted, and we’ve discovered that many businesses weren’t ready and aren’t sure how to judge these changes.

You’ve made the hard decision to find a company to ship products for you, but now the time has come to pick who’s shipping them and you can’t decide between two (or more) options. Do you only have to choose one distributor?

Does packing boxes and printing shipping labels feel like it’s getting in the way of running your business?

It happens to nearly every company as they scale, facing a challenge of trying to hire more staff to handle a warehouse or potentially turning those operations over to a partner that focuses specifically on fulfillment operations.

It’s a critical juncture and one that can make a major difference for today’s costs and tomorrow’s growth. There are challenges to deciding to keep fulfillment[...]