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title: Shaping Up Your Company's Shipping Practices
description: "CEO and Co-Founder Jeremy Bodenhamer recently wrote a thought leadership piece featured in The CEO Magazine: Shaping Up Your Company's Shipping Practices."
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# [Shaping Up Your Company's Shipping Practices](https://blog.shiphawk.com/companys-shipping-practices)

 Written by [Alicia Baumann](https://blog.shiphawk.com/author/alicia) | Aug 20, 2015 4:22:52 PM

# Effective Shipping Practices

CEO and Co-Founder Jeremy Bodenhamer recently wrote a thought leadership piece featured in The CEO Magazine:[Shaping Up Your Company's Shipping Practices](http://blogs.the-ceo-magazine.com/guest/shaping-your-company%E2%80%99s-shipping-practices)

Most retailers experience online shopping cart abandonment due to the cost of shipping.

"[M]any retailers simply don’t have a clear and easy way to calculate the costs of packing and shipping items, or a to way share those figures with potential customers. In turn, many customers come to a screeching halt during the check-out process when they finally see the shipping costs associated with their purchase, and many abandon their purchase altogether. Business suffers as consumers get cold feet due to a lack of transparent total cost and shipping estimates."/p>

[Read on](http://blogs.the-ceo-magazine.com/guest/shaping-your-company%E2%80%99s-shipping-practices) to learn how retailers can implement effective shipping practices through pricing, packaging, and process.

[View full post](https://blog.shiphawk.com/companys-shipping-practices)

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