3 Actions that Build a Better eCommerce Process Distributors with profitable eCommerce sites have put into practice winning strategies to enhance their digital channel using the golden triangle – people, process, and technology (PPT) – as their model. Scott Frymire,...
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How to Put Web Analytics into Action
Get Reliable, Actionable Insight from Google Analytics in Four Main Steps Adding a digital branch to your business is a great way to move the needle to elevate your success. But if you want to gain greater ROI from your eCommerce sales channel, you must continue the...
Behaviors of Successful eCommerce Distributors – Part 1 of 3
3 Ways People Impact Your eCommerce Success For any business, the core components of a successful operating model revolve around people, process, and technology (PPT). Every goal created, every decision made, and every action implemented is tied to these three...
Amazon’s White-labeling Practices Represent a Threat to Distributors
What Industry Will They Target Next? Given the way Amazon has disrupted the consumer-facing retail space, it’s no surprise that many distributors view Amazon Business, the company’s B2B platform, as a sleeping giant within B2B eCommerce. Distributors can approach...
Get a Better Online Presence Faster with New GO Program
Unilog’s GO Implementation Program Gives Customers a Full-Service eCommerce Site in a Rapid Timeframe Time-to-value is critically important to businesses today, which is why every month you’re not online is a missed opportunity to serve customers. As a wholesaler or...
What Distributors and Manufacturers Need to Know About Blockchain
The past decade has brought immense change to the manufacturing and wholesale distribution industries. Digital transformation is the norm. An eCommerce channel is no longer “nice to have,” but required for growing and maintaining a profitable business....
Managing the Disruption Caused by B2B Mergers and Acquisitions
It seems every time you read industry news, another wholesale distributor has acquired or consolidated with a distributor. In the electrical industry, McNaughton-McKay announced they acquired The Reynolds Company in January 2018. Border States Supply Chain Solutions...
California Proposition 65: What Every Distributor Needs to Know
As a distributor, you may have heard about California’s Proposition 65 initiative to protect their citizens by requiring businesses to provide warnings about their products with potentially harmful chemicals. Their goal is to help Californians make informed decisions...
TUG Connects 2019 Helps Distributors Become Agents of Change
At the recent TUG Connects 2019 conference in Orlando, distribution industry attendees were tasked with an important mission: become an agent of change. For the hundreds of people who attended the event, it was a mission they were happy to accept. Playing off a secret...
BOPIS is Helping Distributors Compete with Amazon and Big Box Retailers
In what looks to be an anti-Amazon strategy, a growing number of Big Box retailers are now offering a buy online, pick up in store (BOPIS) feature for their customers. Independent hardlines distributor and Unilog customer, Orgill, has been tracking major chains in...