Category Archives: Product Fulfillment Services

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…)

Only So Much When you’re doing business by yourself, there is a tendency to want to do it all. And there’s good reasoning for this. For one, you can handle all the problems of your business yourself, ensuring that they are done correctly. For another, you can learn a lot while practicing good work methods, which will make your business stronger and your knowledge base that much better. (more…)

People Are the Reason Even the most prolific and successful entrepreneurs today lose their focus every once in awhile. It’s human nature. Life and work can get busy and complicated. As a result, there are times when their professional dispositions suffer because of their loss of focus. This happens in product fulfillment, too. The occasional botched mailing, a miscommunication between your business and a service provider, and the discovery of a faulty product are all examples of how product fulfillment can suffer. Luckily, these and other examples can be rectified relatively easily. (more…)

Out of the Doldrums Aside from the occasional anomaly, the average person doesn’t like being bored. There’s unease, sadness, and an outright stagnation of mind when one gets bored. Whether people admit it or not, pretty much anything that’s produced from a bored state of mind isn’t going to be all that inspiring. While we live in a visually and sonically stimulating time—often a bombardment to the senses—people tend to gravitate to the more creative aspects of modern life. (more…)

Where the Action Is Location, location, location. When it comes to business, it’s hard not to generalize certain industries with certain places. If you think of Hollywood, the movie industry is ingrained into that city. With Paris, the cafe lifestyle is integral right down to that city’s streets. Today, Western Canada and Saudi Arabia are the oil giants. When it comes to business, location is obviously important. But what part of the world is command central for product fulfillment? If you are looking to get some services for yourself or do business with other product fulfillment pros, it would be...

Remove Yourself from the Equation In product fulfillment, things can get pretty hectic, and everything can become hard to handle. And if you’re operating your own business, it can be a huge responsibility to hold it all together. There might come a time when you decide enough is enough. Doing all the cataloging, processing all the orders, and managing all of the lists among other jobs might wear you down so much that you find yourself in need of a different sort of job. You love product fulfillment, but need work that’s a bit less stressful. (more…)

If you’re involved with product fulfillment, it goes without saying how important your catalogs are. They display your goods for the public’s eyes, and they attract many clients as a result. Your catalogs are integral to your success—there’s no question about it. But there can be times when you issue catalogs to the public that don’t achieve much response from clients—either old or new. There’s something not working with your latest catalogs, and it isn’t going over well with the public. As a result, you find your product fulfillment business suffering. (more…)

You’ve heard it before: if you’re going to succeed in business, you’re going to need people skills. This is an absolute. One group of people has to cater to another group’s needs and wants in order to generate success in a marketplace. But while other businesses might do a limited amount of interaction with people and the public, product fulfillment is a bit more involved. In product fulfillment, you have to focus your personal connections in a few different directions, making it a bit tougher to be a “people person” than in other types of businesses out there. (more…)

We live in such a high-tech world that it can be overwhelming. Everything’s on the Internet and is compressed into micro-micro processors. Many of the futuristic ideas predicted in early twentieth century sci-fi magazines have come true. But, despite how overwhelming it can be, this high-tech culture isn’t always a bad thing. There are a lot of tools out there that can squeeze big tasks down into small, more manageable ones. If you have issues with your product fulfillment business, it’s worth incorporating new technology to help make your business more efficient. Let’s face it: there’s a lot to organize...

You’ve likely experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly in customer service. There are those product fulfillment professionals who deliver the good customer service that makes you want to come back for more, those who deliver lukewarm-to-tepid customer service, and then those who don’t care and just manage to stagger through their jobs half-heartedly. Obviously, the first is the role model to follow, but a lot of the time, product fulfillment never manages to get client services under their belts quite right. If you are one of the pros who never fully mastered customer service, there’s no shame in...