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The Top 5 Best Ecommerce Fulfillment Services – In-Depth Reviews

Want to jump straight to the answer? The best ecommerce fulfillment service for most people is ShipBob or Red Stag Fulfillment.

Warehousing, packaging, and shipping orders to customers on your own is tough to manage at scale. Ecommerce fulfillment services solve this problem by handling these tasks on your behalf.

Outsourcing ecommerce fulfillment ensures that orders get to your customers quickly and efficiently—saving you time and money. This gives you an opportunity to focus on other areas of your ecommerce business that will set you up for exponential growth.

The Top 5 Best Ecommerce Fulfillment Services

Whether you’re starting a new ecommerce site or you’ve been selling online for years, this guide will help you find the best ecommerce fulfillment services for your unique needs.

ShipBob — Best Ecommerce Fulfillment Platform

Two-day shipping
D2C and B2B fulfillment
Omnichannel support
International fulfillment

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ShipBob is an omnichannel ecommerce solution that’s trusted by over 7,000+ online businesses. They boast a 99.95% fulfillment accuracy rate and make it easy for brands to scale operations.

As an end-to-end fulfillment provider, ShipBob helps distribute your inventory across its network of fulfillment centers to ensure products are shipped faster and at a lower cost to you. They have global supply chain and fulfillment solutions across the US, Canada, UK, EU, and Australia.

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In addition to its exceptional fulfillment services, ShipBob’s web-based fulfillment platform makes it stand out from the crowd. This easy-to-use portal has everything you need to manage your fulfillment needs from a single source of truth.

You can use the platform to track real-time inventory levels from any location and get…

Listening – Power, Skill, and Style

Your greatest tool of influence is your ears.

Listening increases the value and impact of your words.

“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.” Alan Alda

4 listener styles:

Dana Dupuis lists four listener styles.

#1. Connective style focuses on what an interaction means for others.

Connective listeners:

Notice how people feel.
Wonder why people are sharing this.
Ask questions for others.

#2. Reflective style focuses on processing information internally, with a strong reliance on the listener’s own judgment rather than the advice of others.

Reflective listeners:

Listen but don’t ask questions. Share conclusions. (They don’t share reasoning.)
Listen quietly. They may seem intimidating.
Seldom ask for advice or opinions. They make up their own mind.

#3. Analytical style focuses on facts, data, and measurable information.

You say things like:

Get to the point.
Just the facts.
I don’t need all the fluff.

#4. Conceptual style focuses on brainstorming and idea generation.

Conceptual listeners:

Love dreaming about the future.
Embrace failure. What can we do differently next time?
Explore options.

4 steps to improve listener skill:

#1. Declare an intention.

Choose one of the four styles as an intention. “I intend to listen to connect,” for example.

#2. Seek feedback.

When you’re talking, how do I let you know I’m paying attention?
What might give you the impression that I’m not listening?

#3. Choose one skill to practice.

Turning toward people and giving eye contact.
Turning away from computers and cell phones.
Pausing before speaking.
Ask, “What else?”
Say, “Could you tell me more about…?”

#4. Repeat.

You employ several listening styles and lean toward one. I lean toward conceptual listening. I never met an idea that I couldn’t do something with.

What’s your preferred style?

What’s one thing you could do to improve your ability to listen?

Added resource:

The Top 10 Super Powers of Listening

Listening is the Overlooked Tool of Leadership

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How To Feel Happier Right Now

The type of music that brings back the most vivid positive memories.

One of the simplest ways to feel happier right now is to recall a happy memory.

Re-experiencing a happy moment from the past can give you just the required boost.

And music can help you do that — so long as you choose the right type.

Research suggests both happy and peaceful music helps you recall positive memories.

But, if you listen to music that is sad or emotionally scary, it will help bring back the wrong sort of memories.

It seems that upbeat, happy music, in particular, gives the quickest access to happy memories.

The study’s authors write:

“…positive and highly arousing musical cues resulted in the quickest access to memories, and we observed a link between the emotional valence, but not the arousal, levels of the cue and the accessed memories.”

It might not be a surprise that happy music helps bring back good memories.

But there was one surprise: the type of happy music was important.

Peaceful music brought back the most vivid, positive memories.

Peaceful music is typically positive but not too exciting.

As Dr Signy Sheldon, the study’s first author, explained:

“High cue arousal led to lower memory vividness and uniqueness ratings, but both high arousal and positive cues were associated with memories rated as more social and energetic.”

Randomly played music — both positive and negative — was also successful in bringing back vivid memories.

Dr Julia Donahue, who co-authored, the study, said:

“It is possible that when cues were presented in a random fashion, the emotional content of the cue directed retrieval to a similar memory via shared emotional information.”

The study was published in the journal Memory & Cognition (Sheldon & Donohue, 2017).

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How to Create an Effective Instagram Bio (15 Ideas + Free Templates)

Your Instagram bio is not just a line or two you nonchalantly fill out when creating your account. It is, in fact, your chance to welcome users to your business profile, give people a good first impression of your brand, and tell visitors what your business is about.

Your Instagram bio might be a small space, but when used well, it can help you convert profile visitors into followers, and eventually into customers.

In this article, we’ll show you some great Instagram bio examples to inspire your own bio. We’ll also give you the best tips on crafting your own Instagram bio.

What is an Instagram bio?

An Instagram bio is the short description under your username on your Instagram profile. This description usually tells users who you are and what your business does.

Your Instagram bio is one of the first things people notice when they visit your profile. It determines how they perceive your brand. After reading your bio, your audience should be able to understand:

who you are
what you do
how your brand can help them

An Instagram bio has a limit of 150 characters. So you have to be creative to come up with a bio that fulfills these three things.

What makes a great Instagram bio?

A great Instagram bio is one that convinces new profile visitors that clicking the follow button is worth it. As you brainstorm your brand’s Instagram bio, ask yourself these questions:

What does your brand do?
How can your brand help others?
What makes your product/service different from similar ones in the market?
What special skills do you have?
What’s your brand personality: Informative? Funny? Playful?
Are you a local, national, or multinational business?
What’s the first thing you want people to do after they visit your Instagram profile?

The last point is super important because your Instagram bio is a marketing material. And your marketing material is incomplete without a clear and compelling call-to-action (CTA). Once visitors look at your profile, they should know exactly what to do next.

For your CTA, you might want to put a link in your bio to send people to a web page or store where they can buy your products.

But it’s possible that you don’t want sales right away.

If you want to grow your newsletter, for example, you can include the link to the newsletter in your bio so that people can sign up. If your main goal is to build a follower base on Instagram, your CTA might be to ask visitors to follow your page and engage with your content through likes, comments, and shares.

You could even make a branded hashtag that they can share their photos/videos with. That way, both you and your visitors get more exposure.

Cool, amirite?

The top 15 Instagram bio ideas

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The Top 5 Best Help Desk Ticketing Systems – In-Depth Reviews

Want to jump straight to the answer? The best help desk ticketing system for most people is Zoho Desk or Freshdesk.

Helpdesk ticketing software is an essential extension for many businesses, especially for those handling a high number of customer inquiries. Helpdesk ticketing systems can help you manage customer issues without needing an entire call center.

The best helpdesk software will allow you to create a seamless workflow with omnichannel support and self-service options, no matter the industry.

The Top 5 Best Help Desk Ticketing Systems

After reviewing dozens of help desk ticketing systems on the market today, we narrowed it down to the top five best systems for increased customer support. Continue reading to learn more about which option is right for you.

Zoho Desk – Best Omnichannel Ticketing System

Customizable self-service portal
Context-aware ticketing system
One-click ticket assign
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Trusted by more than 50,000 businesses, Zoho Desk is the best help desk ticketing system for most users. With comprehensive omnichannel software, Zoho Desk can help you interact with customers and build loyalty from any platform.

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With an intuitive interface and user-friendly features, Zoho Desk takes its multi-channel support to the next level. If you struggle to handle customer conversations or frequently miss high-priority issues, Zoho Desk can help you collect tickets from different channels and organize them in one place.

Zoho Desk supports tickets through email, social media, live chat, telephony, and webform. Zoho Desk combines all of the channels into one easy-to-use ticketing tool, where you can manage and respond to all customer inquiries.

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3 Ways Remembering Advantages Leaders

The beauty of a poor memory is life is filled with surprises.

The danger of not remembering is an untethered life.

#1. Remembering informs identity.

You know who you are by remembering.

Remembering who you are is a rudder in life.

I haven’t lived on a dairy farm for decades, but I’m still a farm boy from Central Maine. I don’t want to milk cows and shovel manure, but memories of farm life are my potter’s wheel.

You’re always who you were when you were 13.

Identity is your grip on decision making.

Leadership tip: Listen to people’s stories and remind them who they are.

When making tough decisions ask:

What do people like you do in situations like this? Is that what you want to do this time?
Who is this situation calling you to become?
Who will you be tomorrow if you make that choice today?
What values are impacting the way you interpret this situation?

Leadership tip: Know the formative stories of everyone on the team.

#2. Remembering animates the discouraged.

You feel fulfilled when present actions connect with pleasing memories.

Leadership tip: Remind people of choices and behaviors that resulted in hard earned progress.

What’s something hard you did in the past?
What factors contributed to your success?
What did you do then that you will do today?

You give up when you forget past achievement.

#3. Remembering humbles the arrogant.

It’s useful to tame your ego.

Self-made is a myth that insults everyone who helped you. Arrogance forgets all the shoulders it stands on.

Ingratitude dominates those who forget all those who lifted them.

The height you reach depends on the shoulders you stand upon.

What benefits of remembering can you add to the above list?

Still curious: 4 Ways to Make the Past a Platform – Not an Anchor

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4 Ways to Move Through Pain to Fulfillment

An aspirin might solve a headache, but it doesn’t cure cancer.

Instead of moving through pain to fulfillment, we prolong and multiply discomfort by masking it.

It’s better to use pain than ignore it.

4 ways to move through pain to fulfillment

#1. Humble yourself.

Pain hardens fools and humbles sages.

No one can humble you. You humble yourself.

Humility caused by painful failure is like turning on bright lights. The wise open their eyes; fools turn away.

3 insights sages know:

Self-made is a myth that insults everyone who helped you.
Gratitude comes from learning through failure.
The height you reach depends on the shoulders you stand upon.

“I prefer an injurious truth to a useful error. Truth heals any pain it may inflict on us.” Goethe

#2. Find purpose.

You move through pain to fulfillment when you discover purpose.

Painful experiences are jackhammers.

People who have been abused often find purpose in serving those who are abused, for example.

What painful experiences are you solving?

#3. Adapt

Agony is punishment for foolish persistence.

When I’m at my computer I tip my head back so I can see clearly. I’m looking through bifocals. Constant tipping causes neck and shoulder pain. The solution is computer glasses, not gutting it out.

“The only thing more painful than learning from experience is not learning from experience.” Anonymous

#4. Stop.

They say pain is weakness leaving the body, but sometimes it means STOP.

Skillful quitting minimizes suffering.

Leaders talk themselves out of opportunities. They say, “They need me here,” or, “Things are going so well,” or, “I have more to do here.”

The above quotes reflect reality, but they are self-limiting excuses that prevent reflection on opportunity.

The discomfort of rejecting future opportunity is less painful than rejecting present security.

How might leaders move through pain to fulfillment?

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You Have More Than you Think – Turkey’s Revenge

The Role of Suffering

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Product Market Fit with Scott Cunningham [VIDEO]

Scott Cunningham

Scott is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Merchant Mastery, an 8-week intensive training and coaching program dedicated to helping Shopify store owners master advertising, email marketing, and conversions to grow their ecommerce empire. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of Social Lite Communications, a full-stack digital marketing and design agency with expertise planning and executing lead generation campaigns for a wide span of industries in B2B and B2C sectors.

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