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wadkarsworld · 1 year

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Impact of Express Delivery Services on E-Commerce Sales

In today’s fast-paced world, we need everything “right this second” — irrespective of the fact that the product in question might be on the other side of the earth. From instant noodles to lightning fast internet speed, we are constantly moving towards a culture of instant gratification. And the latest sector to enter life in the fast lane (pun not intended) is E-Commerce.

In the last couple of years, retailers have understood the importance of delivering products/services that imbibe speed and quality in equal measure. Simply put, retailers have realized that speedy delivery is to E-commerce sales what vision is to eyes — absolutely essential.

This is where Shadowfax’s connect services and your E-commerce sales can become “fast friends”.

Let’s understand how our express delivery service can impact and drive sales while offering customers seamless shopping experience.

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How E-Commerce Sales can Fast-track Happiness with Express Delivery Services?

#Sky Rocketing Traffic & Profits

Interestingly, 61 percent customers don’t mind paying extra for “same-day” deliveries. A good example to quote would be the services offered by Amazon Prime, Big Basket, among others. Naturally, by offering add-on services like 1-day delivery service, E-commerce giants can get a head start on the competition and in turn, enjoy an increased traffic on their platform — be it an app or their website.

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#Happier Customers Thanks to the Promise of Quick Delivery

According to Invespro, around 49 percent of shoppers prefer shopping online due to the concept of “same-day deliveries.” And when it comes to shopping Intercity, “next day delivery” services can act as the biggest catch as it promises one of the most treasured assets by customers — “convenience”.

Irrefutable proof lies in our numbers: At Shadowfax, we execute 20,000+ Intercity shipments on a daily basis and have experienced 25% higher order conversions for next-day delivery. Need we say more?

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#Increased Brand Loyalty as a Result of a Seamless Customer Experience

It is one thing to deliver products/services quickly but the trick lies in doing so before time (as often as possible) and that too, reliably, securely, and professionally.

Enter our three key services:

Forward Logistics (for same and next-day deliveries),

Air Connections (for next-day deliveries in 25+ cities), and

Surface (for delivery in 70+ cities at optimized costs).

Through combined efficiencies of our delivery partner network and our logistics infrastructure in place, we make every virtual order that’s placed a rapid reality.

The result?

Customers tend to trust our services and keep coming back for more due to a sense of satisfaction they feel with every delivery. This is where E-Commerce websites can capture a larger market, share and enjoy positive publicity in the process — dual pillars that form the basis of a strong marketing foundation.

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#Setting a High Bar with Lower Costs

Hiring a company that specializes in express delivery services can translate to huge savings — literally (by way of competitive shipping costs) and figuratively (by way of reduced stress and headaches due to the elimination of handling logistics).

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What’s more, you can pass these savings to your customer who naturally will be more than happy. This will also help build a loyal customer base. Additionally, managing sales for E-Commerce companies by itself can prove to be a Herculean task, and if you add handling logistics to the mix, it’ll only slow down efficiency and profits.

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Hence, engage with Shadowfax’s extensive logistics network and minimize losses. In our experience, we have witnessed a >40% conversion of COD orders into pre-paid orders — thereby, ensuring every order sees the light of day and customers don’t get a chance to cancel it before delivery. Plus, over time, we have seen 60% lesser cancellations for next-day delivery orders.

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#Enjoy a First-Mover’s Advantage with Shadowfax’s Air Connect Services

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Air cargo is increasingly becoming the preferred choice of transportation as it assures quick deliveries. Capitalizing on this, we offer three-fold advantages to businesses, namely:

So, if you’re looking for a new-age logistics solutions company that’s quick on the uptake for everything that’s express delivery related, visit our website or leave comments in the section below.

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#expressdelivery #delivery services

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script-a-world · 5 years

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So I'm plotting a story in which an entire Canadian city is dropped into a fantasy world. Besides the obvious mad scramble for food and the other raw resources needed to support a city with a very large population, and the inevitable out break of devastating diseases and plot related events such as encountering the local cultures, can you think of any other events / catastrophes that would result?

Miri: Well, your city has likely been cut off from its power supply network and communications network, and you’ve got a lot of broken structures along the edges. A lot of angry and displaced wildlife as well. Sewage, that’s a problem. How complete was the city-napping?

Feral: How literally is it dropped? How is it removed in the first place? How is it transported? What do you mean by "entire city"? The population? The buildings? The trees in the parks? The streets and the soil everything is built on?

Is the location a similar climate? Presumably the air breathable but at what altitude is the city now compared to where it was?

If "the city" includes the buildings, how much of the city foundations are removed? What is the topography of where they land? Does the city perfectly graph to it's new landscape?

Bina: 1) People taking advantage of the chaos to gain power over others. If people are scared and the future is uncertain, they're much more likely to follow charismatic folk who offer any kind of stability. Even if said charismatic individual is, say, trying to build a cult, or just wants to form a gang, or wants to recruit people to an ideology that already existed on Earth but nobody took that seriously before.

1 cont.) It doesn't even have to be someone consciously seeking to take power. Maybe someone has responsibility thrust onto them by other desperate people. That kind of responsibility, having people depend on you to lead and care for them without wavering, can change a person. Some may rise to the challenge, others may snap under the pressure. Depending on how many people have placed their faith in the individual, there could be serious consequences for that person cracking or failing to keep the peace.

2) If the scramble for food and other raw resources was indeed mad, I'd expect a lot of trust to be broken inside communities as people in proximity to each other compete for resources. Trust that may take a long time to build back up as the chaos settles and people realize they're in for the long(?) haul and have better chances banding together.

3) Once people start condensing into teams and communities, tribe mentality may take hold. Established groups may not trust anyone outside their group. They may even kill others for the sake of their own "survival," severely limiting their survival chances as a whole as fear makes them shun those who may want to cooperate.

4) If the city-drop happened during the school year, during the day, that's a LOT of children who are effectively stranded amidst the chaos, and a LOT of parents who'll do anything to make their way to them to see if their children are safe.

5) Are there any groups of people who may have been forgotten about in the initial chaos? Assuming your infrastructure is still intact, consider a prison for example. Maybe all the guards fled when the disaster happened. Those prisoners are effectively on their own. Some may be stuck in their cells for a good long while, depending on those outside their cells to give them food and water. What happens to them? How do they survive? What happens when other people come across them again? How many are left when that happens? How much do they know of the strange world they were dropped into?

Constablewrites: The circumstances of the transportation itself are going to have a significant impact on what follows. Getting thrown violently and suddenly through time and space will have you starting off the next step in a very different mindset than you'd have if you woke up one morning and everything around you looked normal but the sky was orange and there's a forest where Queens used to be.

Speaking of, how do suburbs factor in? Say you want to steal Los Angeles. That could mean:

- the City of Los Angeles (where your street address says Los Angeles, CA, one city government) covering 469 sq mi

- Los Angeles County (one county government, multiple city governments sometimes nested inside each other, basically no boundaries or distinguishing features between cities other than the map) covering 4083 sq mi

- the Los Angeles metropolitan area (the entire contiguously populated region) covering 4850 sq mi

- the Greater Los Angeles area (recognized as the portion of the state where everyone who lives there is all part of one single economy) which covers 33954 sq mi

As a former Angeleno, I'd probably assume you meant the third one. (Because, after all, I considered myself an Angeleno even though my street addresses during that time were Claremont, Anaheim Hills, and Anaheim.) But there's a couple of orders of magnitude difference between what you'd be dealing with in terms of population and resources depending on which direction you take. There's also a big psychological difference between "all the populated areas look normal but what the hell happened to the desert" and "guys everything east of Alameda stopped existing." So which effect you want will probably help determine where you draw your lines.

#pylons #cities #relocation #maleficscholar

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williamemcknight · 6 years

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Mayor announces first-ever London National Park City Week

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today announced the first ever London National Park City Week, celebrating the capital’s natural environment and encouraging Londoners to help make it even greener.

Sadiq has committed to help make London the world’s first National Park City, where more than 50 per cent of the city is green by 2050 and the capital’s green spaces and waterways benefit all Londoners.

Working with the National Park City Foundation and other partners, he aims to declare the capital a National Park City in 2019, and is calling on Londoners and community groups to get involved.

National Park City Week, running 21-29 July 2018, will kick off the school summer holidays with a range of activities across the capital including guided walks, talks, food-growing, community clean-ups and improving spaces for wildlife.

The Mayor is inviting community groups, boroughs and other local networks to organise their own events, and for the public to get involved by revitalising a green space or exploring some of the capital’s natural areas.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “London boasts an incredible array of green spaces that I want to protect and improve as we aim to become the world’s first National Park City. By making our city one of the greenest on earth, we can improve air quality, conserve wildlife and develop a green infrastructure to benefit all Londoners.

“From protecting the greenbelt and taking polluting vehicles off our streets, to providing communities with money to develop new green areas, I am working hard to improve London’s environment, and I urge community groups and Londoners to help me by getting involved in National Park City Week. Host an event or get out and explore your local area – whether it be a woodland, a community garden or one of our fantastic Royal Parks, there’s something for everyone.”

The Mayor’s National Park City programme will include:

Improvements to London Plan policy to protect and increase green space, and access to it, particularly in areas where it is currently lacking.

Support and advice to boroughs and others in charge of land to help plan, design and manage green infrastructure that benefits all Londoners.

Help to identify and promote the economic value of London’s green infrastructure, to build the case for essential investment.

The Mayor is already funding the planting of thousands more trees and helping London’s boroughs invest in the capital’s much-loved parks. His draft London Plan also highlights the importance of protecting green spaces and creating new, accessible open space, particularly in areas with little access to parks. Earlier this month, he announced £6m extra funding to boost green spaces and reduce plastic waste, and his £9m Greener City Fund is already delivering grants to local projects improving parks, designing new green spaces, greening school playgrounds, planting trees and restoring waterways.

Londoners are encouraged to share their discoveries and experiences using the hashtag #NationalParkCity.

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juliandmouton30 · 7 years

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Architect@Work to explore amphibious cities for 2017 event in London

Dezeen promotion: Architect@Work has unveiled its programme for this year's London event, which features a talk on floating architecture with Gensler, Carl Turner Architects and Studio Octopi.

Dezeen is media partners for the two-day trade Architect@Work trade fair, which is aimed at architects, designers and specifiers. It will return to Olympia National Hall in London on 25 and 26 January 2017.

The Architect@Work trade fair will return to Olympia National Hall for the 2017 London edition in January

This year focusing on the theme of water, the talks programme includes a discussion on amphibious city design led by Chris Romer-Lee of Studio Octopi, Carl Turner of Carl Turner Architects and Ian Mulcahey of Gensler.

The programme also includes a discussion on waterway development with Alex Ely of Mae Architects, and one titled A Bridge Too Far? that will explore the challenges and opportunities in bridge construction.

It will feature products by 100 European suppliers, including balcony connectors by Danish high-performance concrete manufacturer Hi-Con

The Design Driven by Natural Forces talk, led by RIBAJ executive editor Eleanor Young, will discuss projects shaped by the natural world with some of the UK's leading architects and designers.

Carl Turner design open-source house that floats on floodwater

A jury has selected 100 European suppliers to exhibit a wide range of products during the event, including surface and lighting solutions, as well as interior and exterior fixtures and fittings.

Metal panels, street lighting and furniture by BPlan will be on show, and Knauf AMF will exhibit its new Heradesign wall absorbers.

A jury has selected the suppliers, like BPlan who will showcase lighting and furniture

Finnish brand Aurubis will launch its pre-weathered and pre-patinated copper, as well as copper alloys, for roof and facade cladding. OLEDs by Blackbody and flooring by Tarkett will also be on display.

An exhibition by Pavillon de l'Arsenal titled Matière Grise urges the construction trade to use more and fewer raw materials. It will bring together 75 projects, 14 essays and 13 interviews to show the potential of recovery and reuse.

Also on display is the TrackMan golf radar, which captures the golf swing and maps key data parameters including ball speed, attack angle, club path and face angle

Architect@Work has also commissioned design and architectural journalist Giovanna Dunmall to conduct the Innovative Interviews series with eight architects, developers and engineers, asking them who they would most like to sit next to at dinner.

There will also be a pop-up book shop by the Royal Institute for British Architects that will give visitors an opportunity to purchase magazines and books based on the show's theme.

Lighting brand Artemide will showcase four innovations, including the sound absorbing Eggboard and Ameluna

Architect@Work takes place at London's Olympia National venue in Kensington from 25 to 26 January 2017 from 1 to 8pm.

Attendance is free to the trade, when registering using code 1470.

Read on for the full programme of events:

Wednesday, 25th January

A Bridge Too Far? 3pm Roger Ridsdill Smith, Foster+Partners Jonathan McDowell, Matter Architecture Julia Barfield, Marks Barfield Ben Addy, Moxon Architects

Rivers have shaped our towns and cities, and the points at which we choose to cross them are of fundamental importance, both for transport and the built environment that springs up around these urban nodes. Bridges therefore play a vital role in the function of daily life but they are also feats of engineering and objects of beauty. What happens when the bridge becomes the focus of attention, rather than its landing points or the gap it spans? We are drawn to beautiful bridges and the UK has a long history with their design. In this talk we will explore the challenges in creating bridges in difficult places and the ways in which the bridges themselves can become spaces to enjoy and interact with.

Design driven by natural forces, 4.15pm Chair: Eleanor Young, RIBAJ Ana Abram, Gustafson Porter + Bowman Jerry Tate, Tate Harmer Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture James Todd, Architype

Water, air, sunlight and the movements of the earth are just some of the multiple factors that affect our buildings and urban environments. All design is affected by the elements in some way but some practitioners choose to respond more closely than others. Eleanor Young, executive editor RIBAJ, will discuss projects that have been shaped by the natural world with some of the UK's leading architects and designers. They will explore the ways in which landscape, materials and design combine to form spaces for humans to reconsider their role in the nature.

The British Land Interview, 5.30pm Roger Madelin, British Land Interviewer: Peter Murray, NLA

Roger Madelin is known as the man behind some of the most successful developments in the UK, not least the complete transformation at King's Cross into one of London's most important city quarters. He has now been appointed by British Land to oversee the development of their Canada Water site, which also includes Surrey Quays Shopping Centre and Harmsworth Quays, the former Daily Mail General Trust printing works. The combined sites have a huge potential for development, including new offices, shops, homes, schools, leisure activities and community spaces. He will talk to Peter Murray of New London Architecture about past projects and his vision for the future development of the capital.

Thursday, 27th January

The Amphibious City, 3pm Chair: Clare Dowdy Chris Romer-Lee, Studio Octopi Carl Turner, Carl Turner Architects Ian Mulcahey, Gensler

The UK is undergoing rapid changes as cities develop on limited land and climate change brings unpredictable weather patterns and flooding. Where will we live, work and play in the future and what role does water play? In this panel discussion we will debate new ideas for the future of design on or along rivers, lakes and canals. From floating leisure centres to houses created to react to rising tides, our panel of experts will explain how they have been driven to create architectural and technical responses to the very substance that has helped us build our cities and conquer the land.

Waterway Development, 4.15pm

Alex Ely, Mae Architects Peter Chowns, Canal and River Trust Steve Webb, Webb Yates UK canals and rivers were once the beating heart of transport and infrastructure for the entire country. Goods and people were carried the length and breadth of the land but roads and the railway eventually made this network redundant. These waterways are now having a resurgence as people have a strong desire to live and work along or even on the river. As their popularity rises, our canals and rivers are becoming the focus of debate and a hotbed of development. Phineas Harper, deputy director of the Architecture Foundation and canal boat resident, speaks to architects, developers and engineers about the future prospects for UK waterways and how we can ensure we are making the most of a complex environment.

The Argent Interview, 5.30pm

Tom Goodall, Argent Anthony Peter, Argent Interviewer: David Michon, journalist

In recent years, King's Cross has become a byword for successful development in London. Led by Argent, it has proved beyond a doubt that high-quality buildings, a long-term approach to infrastructure and an intelligent approach to phasing can create a destination that becomes a focus for public life, and that uses its green spaces, water frontages and the blue infrastructure itself to maximum effect. In this talk they will explain the success at King's Cross, as well as their upcoming plans to transform Tottenham Hale.

www.architect-at-work.co.uk

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jeniferdlanceau · 7 years