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#TBT – How to Stay On Top of Holiday Inventory Management
Inventory management is crucial every month of the year, but for eCommerce brands, never is it more important than when gearing up and powering through the busy holiday season. In this week's #TBT we take a look back at a past blog covering how to avoid stock outs using 3 easy tips: Forecast Deploy Flex Holiday Inventory Management: Is Your Christmas Stocking Ugly? Ready to head into the holiday season full speed ahead? Is your inventory management software setting you up for success? Wondering if you're ready for a new system? Take our quiz to find out if Freestyle's M.O.M. is a good fit for you. Freestyle's Multichannel Order Manager is one-stop-shopping for all the forecasting, deploying and flexing you need so you're ready to win this holiday season. Images courtesy of Pixabay | PublicDomainPictures and Alexas_Fotos
How to Keep Up – 4 Tips for Surviving Magento 1.9 End of Life
Magento recently announced that beginning June of 2020, it will no longer support Magento 1.9. This also means they will no longer provide security updates. While this may be old news to some of you, we've been getting quite a few calls expressing surprise and some concern over what to do next. We anticipated quite a few questions, so we've been highlighting this event for well over a year to keep you informed and up to date. We even held a Webinar with our Partner Chris Lang at Optimize on that very subject. The takeaway from that webinar (and from experts around the eCommerce world) is this: if you haven't started planning the next steps for your Magneto store, you need to start...NOW! With the deadline just a little more than six months away, here are some points for you to consider. 4 Tips to Survive Magento 1.9 End of Life Moving from Magento 1.9 to Magento 2 (M2) is not a migration or upgrade. For most, it will be a complete rebuild and will take more time and money
#TBT – How to Save the Holidays (with an Awesome Shipping Management Workflow)
Big or small, if you're in the world of eCommerce, you probably need to start preparing for an uptick in shipping over the next couple months. Because for eCommerce, the most wonderful time of the year usually means the most shipments, too. Check out this amazing throwback, where we walk you through a "workflow self-diagnostic" exercise that shows just how ready your shipping management workflow is...so you can ship, ship, ship away this holiday season. Shipping Workload Meets Shipping Workflow: How to Save Your Holidays Are you prepared to ship efficiently and quickly this holiday season? Freestyle can help! Learn more about how M.O.M.'s shipping integrations are helping thousands of eCommerce brands just like yours! Images courtesy of Pixabay | geralt and Alexas_Fotos
What Can You Do About GOOGLE MOBILE FIRST INDEXING Right Now
Google made an important change to how they crawl websites and eCommerce businesses should be aware of the potential impact on SEO rankings and sales. The change is a complete departure from the way that Google traditionally crawled or indexed websites and shifts indexing priority to the Mobile version of all new websites. What is mobile-first indexing? It’s how Google crawls and indexes the web. Rather than looking at the desktop version of any pages on a site, Google will now look at the mobile versions. As of July 1, 2019, mobile-first indexing was enabled by default for all new (previously unknown to Google) websites. NOTE: Only brand-new sites will be indexed using mobile-first indexing by default. Google hasn’t (and won’t) send notifications to new web sites (since it’s the default, and they’re new, so no need for any notification). Why should you care? Any newly launched site that doesn’t function well in mobile will likely have issues with indexing and ranking in Google (translation: users won’t be able to find you). What can you do? First and foremost, assess
[Infographic] 3 Ways M.O.M. Improves Cart Connectors
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#TBT – 3 Ways to Successfully Offer FREE SHIPPING
This week's TBT looks back at an insightful blog about how to stay competitive even while offering the tempting free shipping. According to Inc.com, online sales this holiday season are predicted to bring in a whopping $136 billion (yes, that is with a "b"). So if you're in the world of eCommerce, this one is for you! Especially leading up to the busy holiday season, you want to be able to compete against eCommerce giants who offer customers free, fast shipping. If they can do it, so can you...we'll show you how. Learn how to: increase your average order value offer free or discounted shipping as an exciting promotion diversify your carrier mix so you can offer free shipping without breaking the bank 3 Ways to Drive Sales with Free Shipping Want to learn more about how Freestyle can help you get through the holidays with booming sales and seamless processes? Contact us today! Image courtesy of Pixabay | mohamed_hassan