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| Picking, packing, and shipping—these are areas that can make or break a small business. Without an efficient product picking system, you risk improper deliveries and high return rates. Spend too much on packing material, and your profits could evaporate. Charge too much for shipping and your customers will go elsewhere. Outsourcing these functions to a skilled service center relieves you from these worries, saves you money, and helps you provide better service to your customer. Some of the most important reasons to outsource distribution and fulfillment are: |
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Overhead costs: |
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Starting a new business takes a lot of money. A dedicated warehousing system requires capital expenditures for things like picking systems, bar code readers, and costly warehousing space. With outsourced warehousing, these capital expenditures are no longer necessary, and you can put that money to use where it’s needed. |
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Bulk discounts: |
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It’s easy to underestimate the amount of money a small business can spend just on packaging and shipping. To get the best rates on your own, you’d have to have a warehouse full of packing materials—but with a fulfillment center, regardless of how much or how little you ship, you can take advantage of our volume packaging and shipping discounts we have in place with suppliers and carriers. |
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Streamlined, consistent service: |
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We have a proven fulfillment and shipping procedures in place, highly efficient and trained staff, and years of experience in the business. As a result, your customers get dependable service they can rely on. Customer service is one of the most important differentiators that you can use to set yourself apart from the rest—and this is what will drive customers back time and time again. |
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Purely variable expenses |
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Why invest a building lease, full-time employees, security systems and other fixed expenses BEFORE generating revenue or profits? Using a true pay-as-you-grow system, you can keep costs to an absolute minimum and increase them as you increase your bottom line. |
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Shift focus to growing business: |
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Divert your attention to marketing, promoting and expanding your venture and have full confidence that your products are being optimally distributed to your customers. |
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Space constraints: |
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You've outgrown your current area and need a practical solution without any transitional 'hiccups'. Rest assured, we can make that transition seamless, with virtually no interruption of service. |
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Online shipping and handling costs: |
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Online consumers are accustomed to paying shipping and handling charges with their online purchases. But, consumers compare prices online, including shipping charges—and because our fees are quite reasonable on a per-item basis, you can pass this cost onto your customers and they will be quite happy with the results. |
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Labour costs: |
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In many cases, personnel costs are the highest expense for many businesses. Salaries, benefits, insurance, regulatory compliance, health and safety, and auxiliary support costs can be overwhelmingly constraining on a company. Free yourself from all such burdens! |
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Increased profit margin: |
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Crucially essential for the well-being of your business. By reducing costs in multiple areas, your operating margin increases significantly. |
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True mobility: |
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Your free-thinking, independent nature found the idea of business ownership appealing. Then why shackle yourself to your physical inventory? Liberate yourself from your merchandise and be free to operate your business from anywhere in the world. |
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