Editor's Note: Take a look at our featured best practice, Procurement: Supplier Negotiation Skills (56-slide PowerPoint presentation). Small & medium size businesses and manufacturing companies deal with scores of external suppliers of goods & services. These dealings require some level of negotiations with goods & services suppliers, major OEM corporations, and software solution providers. While business negotiation skill is a [read more]
5 Ways to Ship Products Like a Pro
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It’s time to get in shape and learn how to ship products like a pro! With a bunch of competition behind you and a lack of time, shipping products like a pro can feel like a whirlwind – but it can be achieved, even if you are importing from China. From taking care when preparing your shipments, to investing in printed mailing bags for your business in order to enhance customer satisfaction and maintain a good relationship with your customers, here are five ways you can ship your products like a pro to ensure success.
- Prepare Your Shipments
When it comes to shipping your products like a pro, it’s important that you use proper packaging. Even though it may be quicker to ship a product put inside a box with no additional packaging, this can significantly increase the risk of your product breaking. These are the issues you certainly don’t want to encounter, as it will lead to poor customer satisfaction which can seriously threaten the success of your business. With this in mind, we recommend taking extra caution in the way your products are packaged – even if it requires a bit more time!
- Printed Mailing Bags
In order to ship your products like a pro and make a lasting impression, we strongly suggest using printed mailing bags. Whilst they aren’t essential for a successful shipment, printing mailing bags can help improve your brand awareness, and can even improve customer satisfaction. For a small fee, you could be sending your products across the globe in prettily decorated bags that represent your brand and what it stands for. Due to the recent success of printed mailing bags, we strongly suggest getting your own!
- Streamline Your Way To Customer Satisfaction
The next step to ship your products like a pro is to streamline your way to customer satisfaction. In order to do this, once you’ve made the sale and processed the order, in order to get your products to the desired location, it’s paramount that you have a number of exceptional systems in place. This will help ensure your products arrive on time, which, you guessed it, results in happy customers! At the heart of your business, it’s paramount that you strive to maintain good customer satisfaction in order to further expand not only your business, but your business brand.
- Ship On A Budget
Luckily for you, shipping products like a pro doesn’t have to cost you the earth. There are, in fact, a number of ways you can ship your products on a budget, regardless of where in the world you are shipping them to. With so many shipping options available, including same day delivery and next day delivery, identifying those that are suitable for your business can be tricky. With this in mind, it’s worth taking a look at what shipping options other businesses offer their customers, in order to keep up with competition.
- Questions To Ask A New Vendor
Depending on the products you want to ship, in order to get the best price, you may have to look for a new vendor. If this is the case, prior to choosing a fulfilment vendor, it’s paramount that you understand what their basic service package includes, their pricing structure and turnaround time. By obtaining this information, you can make an informed decision as to whether this is the right vendor for you, your business and your customers.
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About Shane Avron
Shane Avron is a freelance writer, specializing in business, general management, enterprise software, and digital technologies. In addition to Flevy, Shane's articles have appeared in Huffington Post, Forbes Magazine, among other business journals.
