In order to automate your FedEx shipments, you need to create a FedEx meter number for your FedEx account. Read on to find out how and where to get it. It doesn't take longer than a few minutes! 1. Open the FedEx Developer Center Go to http://www.fedex.com/us/developer/web-services/index.html. This is the FedEx Developer Center for FedEx Web Services. Don't worry - this is 100% free. 2. Click ...

We are happy to announce the release of our Shippo Shopify App. The app allows Shopify shop owners to easily get accurate, real-time shipping rates and obtain shipping labels with one click. Shopify sellers can integrate the app for free! Start now at https://apps.shopify.com/shippo! With the Shippo Shopify app, shipping is as easy as it should be. The app automatically imports all your Shopify orders. Within a minute, you can obtain ...

What's the difference between my local post office and a private international shipping provider? Why do I need a private shipping provider if my post office does a good job shipping my products to my customers? These a two valid questions that we hear often from our small e-commerce shop owners. To answer the question of whether you should ship your products with your local post office or opt for a private company heavily ...

Online shopping is becoming increasingly popular. Customers enjoy shopping online because e-commerce stores give them access to a wide range of products without the hassle of actual shopping - no standing in line, no leaving the comfortable sofa! However, customers often have to pay an extra fee for online shopping, namely the delivery costs. More than 50% of all online stores now offer free shipping to make online shopping more appealing to their customers. Especially during ...

Do you have a business that sends physical products to your customers? In that case you will inevitably have to ask yourself the question one day of where to find good and cheap shipping packaging for your business. We have done that research for you and we have even found that there are legitimate free option for shipping packaging. How to get free shipping packaging There is no such thing as a free lunch you ...

Last Cyber Monday Pinterest emerged as the winner with a 300% increase in sales made from the social media picture platform. For many people this came as a surprise. We want to help you increase your sales. If you are not using Pinterest as a sales platform yet or if you don't know how to convert your Pinterest followers into customers, we have made a quick step by step selling on Pinterest introduction for ...

Amazon has revealed their plans of a drone-based super-express parcel delivery service. Customers are promised to receive their goods within as little as 30 minutes, being delivered right to their doorstep via small, unmanned flying vehicles. CEO Jeff Bezos aims at launching Amazon Prime Air in 2015, depending on the developments on the technology and regulation side. While the Amazon drones look like a promising idea, Amazon is actually not a pioneer at all. Indeed ...

Our last blog post was about the best sites to promote your newly founded startup. Now, we've received a couple of requests to write about the best ways to promote an up and running online store. We've done some research on the subject and have discovered the following tips to promote your online store online: Social media pages are the best way to interact with your customers. Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are therefore ...

We spent the last weeks finding beta testers and pilot customers for our shipping API, which finds small businesses the best shipping rates for their individual needs and helps them increase sales by decreasing shipping costs. To drive the initial traction we spent quite a while researching the best sites to advertise new startups to the right audience. Since most of our customers are e-commerce startups or small e-commerce businesses we figured that our research ...

Have you just successfully crowdfunded your idea? Congrats on a dream-come-true! Now, you don't want to disappoint all your generous backers that helped you succeed with delayed fulfillment processes, since they are all patiently waiting to receive their promised rewards. It turns out that shipping is a major problem for many successfully funded crowdfunding projects, which turns happy backers into disappointed backers. CNN has calculated that in 2012 84% of all successfully funded Kickstarter ...