Author - Ian

Eat healthy? Start exercising? Spend less? More family time? Lets face it! All these resolutions are supposed to ensure our longterm well being, sadly they make us feel more grumpy. So this year lets forget all the...

1. If a shipment is delivered late, you will receive the late shipment fee automatically.NO. That is not quite it works. UPS and FedEx advertise and market their on-time delivery guarantee. What they don’t tell you is...

When you want to remain in business long enough, you need your customers to don marketing roles. And for that to happen, you need to motivate them, give them reasons to market your brand. How do you do that? Do what you...

A customer is always swayed by the promise of same-day delivery. But this places a huge overhead on retailers.  Same day delivery gives the buyer some amount of instant gratification that is felt in a retail purchase...

Logistics managers hate it when a shipment goes wrong and the intended recipient gets hot under the collar for that. But the truth is, several things can go wrong throughout the shipping processes. The least of the...

If your business involves shipping, your logistics management deserves a great deal of focus. Typically, in companies that ship, transportation costs account for a significant percentage of your company’s financial...

The “Holiday season” is upon us and this year, the online sales are poised to hit a whopping $1.8 billion dollars. As online retailers scramble to manage the mad shopping frenzy, what most of them miss is the “shipping...

The motive behind every business is making profits. The more, the better. When a business involves shipping, it’s very important to make sure your shipping carrier does not cost you more than necessary.  It’s a good...

The consumers have changed! With the online retail stores gaining momentum, the customer’s appetite for consistent, seamless and personalized shopping experience is ravenous.The retailers are at loggerheads vying...

The buzz with shippers today- big, small and medium is the Cloud platform. Let’s look at why these shippers are migrating to cloud platform 1.Equal footing Cloud platforms put small and mid-sized providers on the same...

Content is at the heart of any successful online marketing technique.With the e-commerce market booming, there is a substantial rise in the number of customers shopping online.However,  an overload of choice is leaving...

The holiday season is around the corner. Lots of orders. Lots and lots of deliveries. The retailers couldn’t be happier. However, there is one little thing they have to be or are already concerned about – is it possible...

Before the iPhone came and revolutionized the world with its touch interface the world was quite content with its physical keyboard settings. But since the iPhone came about, the way man looked at mobile phones was...

Parties and weddings have RSVPs. This is an acceptable mode as it helps the host to understand the number of guests he has to make arrangements for. However, those are private occasions we are talking about. In the...

“Life is filigree work. What’s written clearly is not worth much. It is the transparency that counts.” – Louis Ferdinand Celine The French author couldn’t be more apt. The world is busy shopping online. The...

Due to the increase in supply chains and e-commerce spending in the Asian continent, UPS anticipates drastic growth in the Asian logistics sector. The manufacturing that drove the economic success in Asia has led to the...