One of our customers has recently experienced problems with increased returns costs and we thought we’d share this issue with you so you know how to mitigate as much of your returns costs as possible. With the recent postal price increases, businesses have not really been impacted too much, however, retail customers – sending items [...]

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Customer case study

by Sam on May 17, 2013

In our latest book, (available very soon!) Scalability Secrets I feature three case studies, companies who have excelled in their field and have really taken their business to the next level. The one I am going to share with you today, is Physica Energetics UK Ltd. Below is their case study, taken straight from the [...]

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How to choose the right fulfilment house for you

May 10, 2013

Here at OFEX, we are really excited about our new book, Scalability Secrets which is coming out in the next few weeks. In anticipation of this, below is a snippet taken from Section 2, and it’s a section called How to choose the right fulfilment house for you Your relationship with your fulfilment house will [...]

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Don’t forget to market offline to your online customers

April 30, 2013

Whether you’re using Pay-per-Click, SEO, auto-responders, webinars, teleconference calls, product demonstrations or video as tools to bring site traffic to your website, as an e-commerce business owner, you are naturally drawn to communicate with your customers in these ways, purely online. However, things have gone full circle, and good old-fashioned marketing methods have actually been [...]

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Staff Profiles – Meet the team

April 16, 2013

Here at OFEX we like to make sure you get the best customer service we can offer, which is why our team and finding the right people is so important to us. We’d like to introduce you to the core team: Jodi – Order Processing Administrator Before the tape guns are re-loaded for the day, [...]

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Why it’s critical to handle returns immediately

March 26, 2013

Last month, we did a blog that covered, ‘How you can reduce returns’, and in this article, we’re going to be looking at, ‘What you should do if you actually get some’. Make sure you have a clear returns policy Make sure you include a simple returns form with your deliveries. You don’t actually have [...]

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£851m – annual cost of failed UK online deliveries

March 19, 2013

This statistic was prepared by IMRG, the leading e-commerce, e-tailer industry body, and I want to highlight the importance of making sure that you don’t fall into this particular statistic. So, how can you avoid failed deliveries and keep those costs down? Sometimes it is very difficult, but there are plenty of things you can [...]

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UK Broadband – or shall we say thin band?!

March 12, 2013

In Europe, the UK is ranked the 16th in terms of download speed. We are behind Romania, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands, USA, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong. Our average download speed is 6.3 Mbps (Megabits Per Second). The best speed available in the whole world is Hong Kong who are at at 54Mbps, [...]

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Industry leaders are teaching online experts to ‘fulfil like dinner depended on it!’

March 4, 2013

You must never underestimate the importance of the final part of the sales process. Let’s face it, there is so much that has to be done first, in order to get that sale, from the creation of the actual product, whether it’s intellectual property, or a material product. You need to ensure that your website [...]

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Our toughest assignment yet!

February 22, 2013

A new customer had integrated their stock with us, and they had a delivery that came through to us from China. Two 40-foot containers arrived; everything inside the containers was totally loose, and we only had a three-hour window to get the whole lot unloaded! So, we got all hands on deck. There were six [...]

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