E-commerce: last two tips to reduce expenses

 

A series of articles have been exploring ways via which e-commerce merchants can reduce their expenses to ensure a maximum profit. They were advised to keep track of all expenditures, to choose their courier company wisely and to optimise the use of warehouse space. This post will look at two more tips.

Changing your inventory
Speaking about reducing storage costs, you can save some more money by removing items that are not performing so well from your online store. However, you must think very well before changing your inventory since this might upset regular customers. Nonetheless, if the underperforming products are bulky, you might consider this option. Moreover, selling fewer items can facilitate order fulfilment, which can reduce delays during big sales periods.

Customer retention
One of your aims as an e-commerce merchant is to attract new clients. However, alongside that, you must focus on customer retention. One of the benefits of having regular shoppers is that you can design advertising strategies more easily. As such, you spend less money on marketing for each sale. This means that you should place a lot of importance on loyalty campaigns. To drive up customer retention, you can leverage SMS and email marketing and offer regular customers bonuses and special discounts.


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