Learn what e-commerce businesses need to do now in order to be prepared for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, and more.

From understanding dimensional weight to choosing the right postal carrier, there are many considerations to get your product from point A to point B in one piece.

New to distributed inventory? No worries – we’ve got you covered! We created a white paper for small to mid-sized e-commerce companies that may not realize they can afford to utilize multiple strategically located fulfillment centers to store, package, and ship their inventory. With this model, inventory is sent from warehouses that are located closer…

Okay, you already knew that. You want the best possible price for shipping your product, but you also want the bells and whistles of a high-tech 3PL. Welcome to ShipBob. Check out the video below to hear ShipBob CEO & co-founder, Dhruv Saxena, talk about why the combination of logistics software and fulfillment capabilities make…

It might seem strange to start thinking about winter or the holiday season before you’ve had your first pumpkin spice latte, but e-commerce is already well into the holiday shopping season. In fact, the National Retail Federation reports 30 percent of shoppers begin their gifting research before October. Small- and mid-sized online retailers have incredible…

After last month’s inability to finish a book and write a review, I was determined to get through Give and Take by Adam Grant by reading a minimum of 30 minutes before bed. Through limiting screen time prior to falling asleep, the following happened: I slept exponentially better. Like, exceptionally better. I felt fresh to tackle…

Box sizing, filler, shipping times and return handling are a few basic areas that often get overlooked when getting a logistics operation up and running. Here are some areas to focus on that have helped ShipBob customers better manage their e-commerce fulfillment. Enjoy!

Good day! I’m Cole Wenzel, ShipBob’s Director of Customer Success. I oversee the support and account management teams and, to us, outstanding customer service is a given. But we want to go one step further than that. ShipBob’s purpose, the ideal toward which we are always striving, is to help e-commerce businesses be successful online.…

However, when you’re first building a product your agility and velocity is the most valuable. You need to build a product that meets the needs of the market. Especially in the ‘start-up’ world you want your offering to be so compelling your customers will use it despite its bad design. Few products fail due to…

There is no universe where you can beat Amazon’s shipping prices. Wall Street Journal False I took this quote from a recent Wall Street Journal article discussing the protean role of delivery firms, and I want to emphatically state that, not only does that universe exist, but ShipBob flipped the script on the shipping market…