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TBT: How to Protect Yourself Against Phishing Scams
The holidays are notoriously busy - inboxes fill with can't-be-beat-sales and temptations galore. But there's likely another type of email that may be flooding your inbox. This year, don't be scammed by what's known as a phishing email. Cyber criminals send these emails in an attempt to infect computers with Malware allowing them to gain access to your (or your company's!) sensitive information. Take a look back at a past guest post by Geoff Yeagley, National Sales Manager at Compass IT Compliance. You can find more information about cyber security and other industry news from Compass IT on their blog. How to Protect Yourself from Phishing Emails If you have questions about how Freestyle and M.O.M. can protect you during the busy holiday season and the rest of the year, reach out today to chat! Images provided by Pixabay | Tumisu & methodshop
The Ultimate Cyber Monday Checklist – Are You Ready?
We're officially in the throws of eCommerce holiday sales season, so we thought we'd provide some final thoughts to help you finish getting ready. Check out a few of the articles we love this year - give them a quick read to tie up all of those troubling loose eCommerce holiday ends. Our favorite Cyber Monday holiday checklists for online sales. Bossbabe's article covers things at a high level, including: how to prepare for sales surges the importance of optimizing your site crafting effective marketing plans streamlining operations and more Spark Solutions offers a bit more strategic, detailed dive in 12 easy steps. Think it's too far along in the season this year? Still worth the read...we suggest taking some of the ideas and plugging placeholders into next year's calendar so you can stay on track. You'll learn about effective tactics like: load testing buying userflows audits code freezes Scalefast's 10 tips to prepare your site for the holidays is the final article we want to share. A great read if you're looking for the basics and just want a
#TBT: 5 Insanely Easy Ways to Survive Holiday Returns
This week's #TBT touches on the dreaded holiday returns. If not prepared, returns after the holiday season can be a hassle and a headache for eCommerce brands (and brick and mortars, too). Learn how to get a working system in place so you can come out ahead after all those returns start piling in. Learn how to streamline your return policy in 5 easy steps. You'll thank us later! Many Happy Holiday Returns: How Not to Alienate Customers This Year Have questions about how you can survive the holiday return madness? Reach out to Freestyle to learn more about how M.O.M.'s powerful system can help you do more, but work less. It's all about the automation! Contact us today. Images provided by Pixabay | geralt & jarmoluk
Don’t Make These 5 eCommerce Mistakes This Holiday Season!
To achieve eCommerce success this season, don’t make these critical mistakes. Read on for our: Top 5 eCommerce Holiday Don'ts for 2019 DON'T: Underestimate the amount of inventory you need – It's so true: you can’t sell what you don’t have. You only have a few minutes to make that first impression, and data proves what we all know anyway: if you don’t have product, customers will go where they can get it (and they're likely to never return). Use your historical sales data to get the order quantity right for your leading products so you can avoid costly stockouts! DON'T: Kick off that great, complex pricing promotion you thought of on Black Friday! To win the cyber sales war, keep your pricing attractive, competitive and logical so you can avoid the shaking of heads. If it doesn't make sense to your customers or your sales agents, your traffic will go to your competitors. Innovation is great, but sales are better. DON'T: Promise shipping deadlines that you can’t meet – What makes customers mad? An empty box under the tree.
Ready for Growth? New Quiz Assesses: Do You Need a New OMS?
You may have a rocking product, and sales might be great. But if you don’t have a powerful order management system (OMS), you’re probably like thousands of other businesses right now, struggling to keep up and unable to grow. How do you know when it’s time to take the next step? Why should you even consider it? The answer is simple. A powerful OMS can: streamline complicated, often-convoluted business processes manage everything from inventory control, to distribution, to customer relation management and more connect all of your order channels and synchronize inventory avoid costly stock-outs breeze through returns management processes (especially important so you can sail through the busy holiday season) We won’t sugar coat it. Buying or upgrading to a more powerful OMS is an investment. But the ROI when every aspect of your operation runs efficiently and effectively, especially if you’re a multi-channel retailer, more than pays for itself. And the best news? Freestyle can help. Our new interactive quiz is designed to let you know exactly where you’re at in the game, and what your next steps
#TBT: Get Ready for the Holidays! How to Reduce Mistakes & Save Money with a WMS
For multichannel and eCommerce brands, seasonal surges are expected, even appreciated, during the busy holiday months. And while they're anticipated, all too often we find ourselves not ready, and we end up in warehouse overload. The holidays mean: new products are promoted, volume increases and seasonal-sales result in inventory flying off the shelves. Quick question: Are you prepared? Failing to properly execute holiday orders could mean more than just cranky customers. It could mean you lose them, permanently. Don't get caught in the lurches, when volume is at an all-time high and every order needs detailed attention so it's delivered on time to satisfied customers. The Warehouse Management System (WMS) for Freestyle's M.O.M. means you can be prepared to crush it this holiday season. Find out all that our WMS can offer to ensure warehouse inefficiencies don't dampen your holiday spirit. Check out this week's #TBT: Prepare for the Seasonal Surge in Order Volume in Your Warehouse, Reduce Mistakes and Save Money! If you're worried about your WMS this holiday season, reach out to Freestyle today to find out how