One-hour and same-day delivery marketplace for businesses, Rapidus (https://www.rapidus.com/), recently announced a beneficial partnership with Shopify that includes the convenient last-mile delivery-solutions app for use by Shopify business. Rapidus is a leader of innovative B2B delivery solutions, matching business customers with professional delivery partners and providing fast, trackable, convenient, and guaranteed deliveries across California, Colorado, Washington, and Texas, with growing areas in Georgia, Florida, and Oregon. Rapidus provides one-hour and same-day, last-mile delivery for a wide variety of industries and already has a strong footprint with many mid-market companies. “We’re excited and happy to announce our mutual partnership with Shopify,” said Rapidus CEO, Olexandr Prokhorenko. “It makes perfect sense, considering the strong e-commerce demand lately for professional and cost-effective local delivery services – which has always been our […]

We’re living in a strange time. The outbreak of COVID-19 has left the US public in an eerily quiet state. Schools and businesses close, events are canceled, and folks walk down empty streets in masks and gloves. Amidst all of the strangeness, however, we can see a trend developing – one that expands upon ideas that have been forming for years. As 2020 moves forward, it’s clear that full-time jobs, with all of their benefits and drawbacks, may not be the norm much longer. Shocks like the coronavirus tend to interrupt the status-quo and make room for change, particularly with the new economic policies announced by Trump on March 11. In this case, it looks like part of that change will be in the form of popularized contractor […]

San Mateo, Calif., Tuesday, January 21, 2020 – Rapidus, a leading marketplace of end-to-end delivery solutions that matches business customers with excess cargo capacity, today announced it has been selected as a professional delivery partner to bring its technology and innovation to Alaska Airlines and its operations in California. Rapidus will focus on transporting baggage that may have been delayed between stations and/or to customers, bringing exact, minute-by-minute estimates of delivery times, a full chain of custody and cost efficiencies to each delivery. Alaska Airlines flies more than 44 million customers a year across a route system that spans more than 115 destinations. “Today’s agreement enables Rapidus to help Alaska Airlines meet its customers’ needs with the service quality, innovative technology and cost-effectiveness of the expandingRapidus network of […]

There was once a successful entrepreneur who was able to build his business from nothing. He had managed to become a fashion stylist even though the fashion world had tried to blackball him because he wasn’t “one of them”. Regardless, his business grew every year. He donated to charities, continued to garner headlines, and he mingled with many other businessmen and businesswomen like him.  He worked hard, and was proud of the fact that he had scaled his business from the ground up. He began to use a courier service for some of his more high-profile clients that he kept in touch with on a personal level. His courier service was recommended by another executive in the business and everything was going smoothly. His business continued to grow, […]

When it comes to scaling a business, many entrepreneurs find that there are so many moving parts that they didn’t really consider when they first had the idea or spark for their business. For example, individuals might realize that the wrong marketing campaign or adding the wrong features to their platform might affect customer retention, which affects revenue, which affects whether a business can truly survive or not.  That’s why it’s extremely important to find the right partners to choose when it comes to business. If you are trying to cut costs for customer service, and decide to outsource certain processes – you have to make sure that you aren’t compromising when it comes to quality and service. After all, there is evidence that suggests that customer service […]

Technology has forever changed the way that human beings think about products and services, and it has helped make life more convenient for people all around the world. Businesses want to reach the consumer quicker than ever. The companies that are able to deliver quicker and more efficiently will undoubtedly gain market share, while businesses who take their time when it comes to the consumer will eventually get lost in the mix. As a business owner, you might realize that a courier service is an obvious way to grow. However, it’s easy to be skeptical. We know that there are businesses that already deliver as part of their business model, such as pizza restaurants, for example. In this case, the business survives due to the fact that couriers […]