Tag: Amazon
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How Secure Package Delivery Can Raise Customer Satisfaction
Having packagesshipped and left at your customer’s front door comes with many logistical problems, from missed deliveries to address mix-ups and stolen or weather-damaged documents and merchandise. To solve such problems and improve customer satisfaction, Amazon has joined with the U.S. Postal Service and several large retailers in instituting a secure package delivery service that…
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How to Prevent a Website Crash After a Traffic Spike
Q: How can I manage crash-inducing traffic spikes to my website? A: First off, congratulations–this is a good problem to have. Maybe a new product on your retail website got big media attention. Suddenly your online traffic jumped sevenfold, and 90 minutes later, your site shut down, the victim of too many consumers trying to…
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Still Foggy on Cloud Computing?
The topic of cloud computing has had its share of ink lately, some of it good, some of it not so good. On the positive side, Apple is negotiating with record labels to allow consumers to upload and store music purchased on iTunes, online via the cloud. If approved by the record labels, Apple will…
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Daily Deals Not a Big Deal for Finding Customers
We’re hearing an awful lot these days about daily-deal websites. Facebook just launched Deals, Groupon turned down a $6 billion buyout offer from Google and now has a presence in over 500 local markets, LivingSocial has raised more than $600 million in funding from the likes of Amazon and T. Rowe Price, and just last…
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5 Tips for Selling on Amazon.com
Although eBay is still the market of choice for many drop ship mom and pop retailers, more and more eBay sellers are expanding their operations into other marketplaces. One of the more popular of these alternatives is Amazon.com. Unfortunately, many drop ship sellers who attempt to make the transition from eBay to Amazon fail to…