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Choosing a Fulfillment Company to Ship Your Online Products

Posted on August 10, 2011 by FillShip

As your online business grows, the process of getting your product out to the customer consumes a larger portion of the time you have to focus on your online business.  Plenty of online businesses today are outsourcing the delivery of … Continue reading →

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Connecting Your Shopping Cart When You Outsource Your Order Fulfillment

Posted on June 24, 2011 by FillShip

Start up online retailers and small to medium size ecommerce retailers are the types of clients we work with most often. Sometimes these are businesses that are not yet shipping orders, or in other cases are doing the order fulfillment themselves. … Continue reading →

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Strategies for online retailers to compete with “Free Shipping” offers

Posted on June 24, 2011 by FillShip

There are a number of good strategies to deal with the free shipping war going on right now in the online retail space. The bad news is there is no FedEx “Free” option that companies like Amazon know about, while … Continue reading →

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What’s one thing a startup online retailer should know about shipping customer orders?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by FillShip

If you are a startup online retailer then you have a lot of things on your plate. From developing the website and choosing the ecommerce software for the site, to figuring out the best way to package and ship order from your … Continue reading →

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Want industry advice from “experts” on shipping and fulfillment?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by FillShip

Two websites you may want to check out if you have questions on shipping and fulfillment are Quora and Focus. Both give you the chance to post questions and get answers from industry “experts” that will hopefully be helpful. Here … Continue reading →

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What are the costs components of offsite pallet storage?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by FillShip

If you are a manufacturer, or any business that has a need to warehouse and storage products then you may have considered outsourcing as an alternative to keeping the product in your own building. So, what are the costs that go … Continue reading →

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When does it make sense to add additional warehouse locations, or do drop shipping?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by FillShip

One decision every growing manufacturer and distributor probably needs to make at some point is deciding when it makes sense to add additional warehouse space in other locations. For instance, we often talk to food manufacturers and co-packers located in … Continue reading →

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Do you ship a large amount of a small number of products?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by FillShip

A great way to drive efficiencies within an order fulfillment operation is to, of course, be more efficient with the packing process. One great opportunity to do that is if you have a certain number of unique sku’s that typically … Continue reading →

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State Sales Tax and Online Retailers

Posted on May 17, 2011 by FillShip

Here is a good summary of the current situation, by state, with the internet retailer/ state tax issue.

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When an online retailer outsources order fulfillment, can a business supply its own boxes?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by FillShip

Some of the questions we often receive when talking to prospective clients are in regards to the shipping cartons used to package customer orders. As in, does the online retailer supply their own boxes or do we as the 3rd … Continue reading →

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