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5 Proven Product Pricing Strategies for E-commerce Business

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There was a time when E-commerce was utilized only by the younger generation of India. But with the easy availability of the internet, online shopping is becoming more prevalent among people of all age groups, thus raising the count of sellers online. Having an exquisite website isn’t enough to entice the customers. Customers don't hit the purchase button before considering certain features, especially the price of the product. Customers generally ransack the internet for the best deals available for the products which they want to buy. Though you impart standard products to your customers, there are other competitors who also sell the same quality products at a cheaper rate. This can result in customers switching to your competitors if they feel your product price is higher. This can put your brand one step behind the other competitors. Certain price comparison platforms make the search process easy, by listing out all the best deals with just a click. This makes it ...

This startup can tell you which delivery service best suits your needs

Online Courier service provider - eCourierz Are you too confused with courier services around? You might want to give online marketplace eCourierz a shot For the 25-year old employee of a logistics and infrastructure firm in Mumbai, it was disturbing to see the opaqueness and inefficiency of the logistics industry, especially when India spends around 14 per cent of its GDP on logistics as opposed to 9 per cent for developed countries. Sreenivas Saba sensed the immense untapped potential in this industry that is suffering due to lack of infrastructure, technology and their associated inefficiencies. Saba was on a lookout for a business model that could bridge the gap in understanding between customers and companies by bringing in some transparency, which eventually led to eCourierz.It is an online marketplace for the courier and express industry that helps people make informed choices by providing them with the best and cheapest options. It also helps courier and exp...

The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Indian Courier Industry

Imagine an industry with multiple vendors, limited differentiation in the minds of customers, lack of transparency and clear price discovery and with a fragmented network of agents across the country. The easy thing about this statement is that one can very name many industries which embody these characteristics – airlines, trains, buses and so on. The list really does go on. However, for each of these industries, the free market has found a solution, via the Internet. Think of the following: Makemytrip.com, irctc.co.in and redbus.in, all tried to solve problems experienced by a fragmented market by connecting them through an online platform. While there have certainly been winners and losers from such a technological revolution, there can be no doubt that one stakeholder is definitely better off: the customer. Now, think of another industry which faces the same issues but has thus fact not found a credible solution: the courier or express transportation industry . The problems face...