The Other Guys: Getting the Right Third-Party Assistance for Your Product Fulfillment Business
Where to Turn If you’re a shopper, you know the value of doing a little window shopping before you make a purchase. Searching around to find the best deals for the best products is often laborious, but worthwhile if you wind up saving a lot of cash. Value isn’t always easy to come by, so it’s best to take as much time as you can to find it, no matter how long it takes. Oddly enough, this concept is worthwhile when you want to get some services to make your product fulfillment business better, too. (more…)
How to Offer the Best Product Services
Objects of Desire When it comes to inanimate objects, humans have always had a love-hate relationship with them. On one hand, they know that their “things” and “stuff” cannot hug, console, or advise them for all of life’s issues. On the other hand, though, there are those objects of desire that people do love in their life, whether it’s an old typewriter that they loved typing on at home or that espresso machine that produces that lovely, strong coffee they enjoy. Objects lack human characteristics, but they do provide people some pleasure. (more…)
Why Location Matters in Product Fulfillment
Follow the Money There’s always the notion that with the smarts and know-how, you can do any kind of business anywhere—or rather, you can actually do really successful business anywhere. Making a business work is tough, but making it successful is another matter altogether. This is a pretty decent theory to have, and it should be true: you ought to be able to do what you want well anywhere, be it a desert, arctic tundra, or some old residential area—anywhere you see fit. Alas, life is seldom so fair, and where you are located can make or break your business’...
Done Directly: Direct Marketing Tips for Today’s Product Fulfillment Pros
Old, But New So…what’s left? Door-to-door sales? Well, people get pretty angry when you do this. Send out some fancy telegrams to rouse sudden business interest? Nope: Western Union saw an end to that almost 10 years ago, and now e-mail is the norm. Cold calling? Better check the privacy laws, as some people could get angry if you pull this stunt over their dinnertime. It seems like a lot of business practices have fallen by the wayside or radically changed. (more…)
Package Deals: Offering the Best Fulfillment Options to the Public at Large
More and More When you see people out and about, it’s pretty apparent that they want more. Whether it’s at the buffet restaurant or bargaining with a car salesman, people want to get the most they can with the resources they have. Are they greedy? Perhaps some are, but most just want to have options to get what they need at a reasonable price. The more choices they have, the better they’re able to find what they need at a price they can afford. (more…)
Always on Duty—The Digital Printing Product Fulfillment Pro
To the Letters The screens are illuminated, the text is encoded, and there are moving images on top. The workers in the digital world have managed to combine the fanciest of all possible mediums and brought in the bucks for themselves in the process. It’s the wave of the future, don’t you know? With all of this digital hoopla today, the notion that print media still has any validity is often met with more than one chuckle. The books, the big thick catalogs, the pamphlets, etc. are all seen as old school. And, according to some, this print media is...
Order of the Day—Having the Best Product Fulfillment Order Services for Clients
Tall Orders They want what you have and you can give them what they want. It’s all about getting the products out to the people who need them. This is the typical system for product fulfillment: getting clients the products they want when they want them. Sounds easy, right? As it should be; but sometimes it just isn’t. (more…)
Between Two Parties—Good Business-to-Business Practices for Product Fulfillment
Big Fish If you’re in business for yourself, your dreams are probably big. You want to do the best business, create the biggest rep in town, and, above all, score the best financial rewards for yourself that you can. Your friends and family might label you a “dreamer” and scoff endlessly. But you know that without big dreams, big realizations can’t happen. You have to have aspirations, plain and simple, to catch the big fish. (more…)
High Concept—Thinking Digitally for Product Fulfillment
New Horizons The vinyl records, the VHS and audio tapes, those cranking sixteen millimeter projectors from high school health class—they’re all gone. Sure, you can dig them up in specialty shops, the library, or even see them in a museum. But for all intents and purposes, their time for regular commercial use has passed. Tragic? Maybe. But the fact is that technology changes, and that’s something humans have to come to terms with. (more…)
Rules of Attraction: How to Bring In and Keep Clients for Your Product Fulfillment Business
Tough Moves You’ve got the smarts and business demeanor. You’ve got the top tech tools and toys to do the job. And you’ve got the spunk and energy, with a desire for success. Great. You’re ready to go. But where are the customers? Don’t worry if the above seems like a slightly true-to-life question for you. As silly as it might sound, pros in many business lines ask this regularly. They’re ready to go, but they lack the clients to actually get going. Often, they never actually get on with their job because the client prospects never materialize. (more…)