The Right Connections: Networking and Forging Associations in Product Fulfillment
Linking Together There’s nothing better than being in control of your own business. These days, there are all kinds of stories of people being able to work on their own to great success, often as lone wolves in their living rooms with only a laptop and Internet connection. Technology and new business practices have brought about new ways of doing business that didn’t exist before, often with as little human interaction as possible. (more…)
Inside Edition: Providing the News and Tips for Your Fellow Product Fulfillment Pros
Spreading the Wealth When you’re good, you’re good. A lot of pros don’t realize their talents enough. If you’ve been anything for years, from a plumber to a stockbroker to a farm machinery technician, and have achieved success, you are something that not all people are: skilled. You know the ins and outs of the business, how to troubleshoot problems for that particular job in a pinch, and can work your way around the position with little to no instruction. It’s something that people often don’t see in themselves until someone points it out to them. (more…)
The Great Post Debate: Thinking Practically About Courier and Mail in Product Fulfillment
One Versus the Other There was Coke vs. Pepsi, then Burger King vs. McDonald’s, Star Trek vs. Star Wars, Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings, and, for some, Lady Gaga vs. Madonna. When you’ve got two parties doing two similar things, it’s simply a matter of deciding which one is better. Now before some of you dismiss these arguments as a matter of personal taste or as being trivial, there is some merit to these debates. (more…)
Lifesavers: How to Save Big in Product Fulfillment
The Best Bang for Your Buck Penny-pincher, quarter-cruncher, balance sheet bureaucrat...when it comes to those who focus their lives on saving their cash, the terms to describe them, however derogatory, are endless in number. While some people take saving to new levels, the last half-decade has opened people’s eyes to the necessity of saving their cash and being a little thriftier with what they have. People might not have all the riches they once had, but they adapt accordingly. (more…)
Getting the Bigger and Better Clients in Product Fulfillment
Grand Royal If you’ve been in product fulfillment for a while, you are likely looking to work inside your comfort zone. In other words, you want to find a way to work on a regular basis that allows you to be the most effective you can be, while still bringing in the most profits you can. Pros are always looking to see what procedures are easiest for them, and then trying to perform those processes for as long as possible. (more…)
Going Overboard: Some Things to Avoid in Direct Marketing Product Fulfillment
Knowing Is Half the Battle Order big or order little? Go digital or stick with paper media? Start working on your catalogue now, well before Christmas, or promote a new product that’s hot from the supplier? Decisions, decisions, decisions. And in product fulfillment, like any other business, there are a lot to make. In fact, if you’re in the product fulfillment game, you already have a pretty good idea how hard it is to make the best decisions for your business. (more…)
Tightening Those Loose Screws: How to Properly Fine-Tune Your Product Fulfillment Business
Off the Righteous Path Things won’t always turn out perfectly; that’s just the way things go. And sometimes we see it coming, sometimes we don’t. The social ideology of the righteous path to success in any business seems to dictate that if we regularly work hard, we should always be successful. The good songwriters will always score good songs, as long as their hearts are in it. (more…)
Creating the Perfect Digital Product Fulfillment Studio
Getting Away from It All First, there was the studio, then the den, the garage, and now the “man cave” or in-house salon. Humans have always gravitated to areas where they can get away, relax, and often focus on something of interest. Be it for pleasure or for purpose, those getaway spaces are areas of fascination and creativity for many, and even now they are actively sought after by a huge portion of the public. With the digital world being what it is today, such getaway spaces seem to be almost needed. (more…)
Plus-Sized Success: Handling the Big Orders in Product Fulfillment
The Bigger They Come People today are pretty particular about all aspects of their lives. The obesity epidemic news of a half-decade ago has made us very careful about the food we eat and being more active, the news about today’s wars has made us more aware of social issues, and the memories of the recent global economic disaster have made us very financially observant, to say the least. If the days of wine and roses were once upon us, they have since passed. (more…)
All Down the Line: Knowing More About Your Product Options for Product Fulfillment
More Than One There’s nothing better than having options. It’s hard to believe that even within the last half century, there were places where you could only purchase one kind of food or drink due to government restrictions, or that you had to commit yourself to particular social norms because tradition forced you to. It’s nice to be able to make decisions based on the options that are available to us all and proceed accordingly, knowing we had the opportunity to think things through clearly. (more…)
