Importing Tips for Product Fulfillment
There’s always a market for imported specialty goods. However, changes to importing laws are stymieing a lot of people involved in the merchandise fulfillment importing process. Once these laws are on the books, you, as the importer, have to be ready to determine how these regulations will affect your ability to acquire and sell imported goods. You may even have to revise your fulfillment service to accommodate these new laws. (more…)
How to Best Use Your Product Fulfillment Knowledge
If you’ve been working in product fulfillment for a long time, your knowledge is a great boon to your business. Whether it’s the hardships of fulfillment orders, or the necessity of mail fulfillment, the information you’ve accumulated while using the Internet as a successful business venture makes you a valuable commodity to both your business and those of others. Self-Worth First, you must assess your knowledge. What do you know? What have you done successfully? (more…)
The Value of a Product Fulfillment Video
Video is capable of entertaining, inspiring, and influencing us in ways most other media cannot. Thus, with such importance and demand, there’s a constant need to create more. For those in product fulfillment, this is your cue to create videos that can help promote or represent your business. Pre-Production Planning out and producing a video isn’t difficult. Start by determining what you want your video to show; there has to be a point to someone watching a piece about your product fulfillment business. (more…)
A Short Guide to Building a Great Product Fulfillment Web Site
If you’re going to be in business, you need a web site, and product fulfillment is no exception. In all likelihood, you already have a web site that showcases your product line and ordering information. However, there are other aspects of having a great web site that you may not be aware of. Having a checklist can help you touch up your web site so it’s more impressive than the competition’s and very client-friendly. (more…)
How to Supply Product Fulfillment News
If you work in product fulfillment, there’s a really good chance that you have insight into this particular industry that you can share. Be it about kitting services or online order fulfillment trends, this knowledge can benefit others in the form of an information publication. This can both assist people and generate interest in your business. A Lot to Consider Before engaging in information provision, you have to determine how you plan to supply that information. Besides the obvious question of the media format, there’s also the content itself to consider. (more…)
How to Use Your Summertime Schedule Effectively in Product Fulfillment
The fact is that too many in product fulfillment don’t make the most of the summer season. Yes, enjoying the weather is important, but the season also possesses great business potential. Here’s what you need to know if you’re planning to enjoy summertime success. ‘Tis the Season In truth, it’s not summer so much that you have to concern yourself with; it’s fall. Even before August ends, you have to start thinking about upcoming fall events: back-to-school, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Chanukah, and Christmas. These are busy times, making them ripe with business opportunities. (more…)
The Importance of Client Confidentiality in Product Fulfillment
With the Internet leading to a greater exchange of personal information than ever before, it’s increasingly important to keep personal information safe. In product fulfillment, you are going to be handling a lot of information from clients and other businesses, and it’s up to you to know how to handle it properly and securely. Storage Security is key if you are going to operate a proper fulfillment center. (more…)
Drop Shipping in Product Fulfillment
The pressure of managing product fulfillment’s many duties can be taxing. If it’s getting to be too much, you might want to consider drop shipping. But what is drop shipping? It’s a relatively new term and one that many in product fulfillment have never even heard before. Drop shipping is when you, as the product retailer, don’t hold the stock. Instead of coming to you, orders are sent to the wholesaler, who then ships them. Rather than doing all the work yourself, you simply offer the products while third-party fulfillment handles distributing them. (more…)
Reinvigorating Your Product Fulfillment Business
While it’s easy to criticize people using older technology for not getting with the times, it’s easy for your product fulfillment business to do the same thing. And unfortunately, this can be a mistake that leads to reduced sales. This can be avoided through creativity, new ideas, and stimulated business activity. Watch and Learn Before you set about doing creative direct marketing or any other revisions to your business, take a good look around your industry for ideas. (more…)
How to Meet Client Demands in Product Fulfillment
The worst thing that can happen in any business, including product fulfillment, is a failure to meet the needs of clients. But what many in product fulfillment don’t know is that there are many tools in place to ensure this never happens and that customer order fulfillment is always met. Tools Over the last few years, a lot of surveys have been conducted to see where product fulfillment businesses are failing, analyzing everything from online fulfillment to direct mailing services. The results have created awareness and led to new, helpful tools such as global order promising, which can link product...
