Shiprazor in Cape Business News: The delivery cost merchants miss when fuel prices rise
Fuel prices are up. Merchants need to keep rising delivery costs from eating into margins without pushing those costs straight onto customers.
READ MOREFuel prices are up. Merchants need to keep rising delivery costs from eating into margins without pushing those costs straight onto customers.
READ MORELike clockwork, as the final quarter rolls around, attention turns to whether a business will hit its annual sales target. How much still needs to close? Which deals can realistically land before year-end? What does the pipeline look like against the target?
READ MOREThe online retailers who win Q4 are the ones who do the hard work in September. By the time November comes around, it is too late.
READ MORETaking a business from R5 million in revenue to the R100 million threshold is one of the most demanding transitions an entrepreneur can make. While many South African scale-ups hit early growth milestones, a significant number stall long before reaching enterprise scale.
READ MORESouth Africa’s e-commerce sector is booming. The market is on track to surpass R130 billion in turnover this year. Local online sales are growing at roughly 20% and the sector handles over 100 million shipments annually. According to World Wide Worx, online shopping now represents 8% to 10% of total national retail – expanding at nearly ten times the rate of traditional brick-and-mortar stores.
READ MOREIn a B2B landscape flooded with AI-generated content and feature-heavy spec sheets, competing on product alone is a losing strategy. Lauren Pybus, Marketing Manager & Creative Director, Euphoria Telecom said one can ask any enterprise buyer to name three vendors in their category, and will get the same shortlist every time.
READ MOREThe upcoming Women’s Day long weekend provides an excellent opportunity to dry run the three pressures that define Black Friday: an order spike, a pause in collections, and a backlog clearing while new orders land. Get it wrong in August and you could lose a few customers; in November, you stand to lose the season.
READ MORESouth African payment performance partner NjiaPay has launched one-click payments for merchants, giving consumers a fast and convenient way to pay without re-entering card details or taking additional payment steps like 3-D Secure verification.
READ MOREAs competition for skilled people becomes more global, scale-ups are being pushed to think harder about what they can offer potential employees. In a global market, skilled workers can compare local offers with remote roles, corporate packages, and high-paying international employers.
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