Look for Order Fulfillment companies by their location.

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Look For E-Commerce Order Fulfillment Companies by Location

When looking for an order fulfillment company, the mantra is very much the same, its location, location, location. That being the primary factor, it then only makes sense, to find your order fulfillment partner, based on their geographic location.

Space Specials (http://www.spacespecials.com/) helps you do just that, leveraging off the Google maps technology, we have created a user friendly search engine, where users can click on a particular location on the map or specify the city and zip code and view all warehouses offering order fulfillment services in the vicinity.

Why can't I do that on Google ?

Why can’t I do that on Google, you may ask ? On Google, you will not be able to do searches such as, show me e-commerce order fulfillment warehouses with over seven locations nationwide. And then drill down further to see how many locations a company has and where they are located.

This can be an important factor when choosing your order fulfillment partner. If you are working with a company with locations close to where your customers are, you are in good company.

Furthermore, Space Specials lets you search for a company based on the type of products they handle. This again, would be a very important factor when making your final decision.

Look for Specials on Order Fulfillment Services !!

Last and definitely not the least, is the fact that only on Space Specials can you find order fulfillment companies offering “specials” to attract new business, that could translate into a huge saving for you. For example there are fulfillment facilities offering summer move in incentives where they will offer a 25% discount on ALL handling charges for the first 3 months. Or, how about no storage charges for first two months of sign up. All this makes good business sense for both you and the warehouse offering these incentives.

Visit http://www.spacespecials.com/ and check us out for yourself. The only search engine dedicated to helping you find the order fulfillment and warehousing services where you need them, when you need them.

Marketing public warehousing and order fulfillment services

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Is Sales and Marketing taking a back seat ?


One of the most over looked functions in the day to day operation of a warehouse, is sales and marketing. It is surprising, how even the more established warehouse companies do not make adequate effort to get the message out about the services they offer.

If a warehouse offers order fulfillment services, then that is the bread and butter of the company. Finding new customers should be foremost on the agenda. Order fulfillment customers are fickel as they may scale back, go out of business or just move on to a different company. How then do you keep the seat warm.


Do's and Don'ts !!

It seems that marketing on Google and Yahoo seems to be the place where most companies consolidate their efforts. But since staying on top of the search engine is not only a challenge, but it is simply not a realistic expectation in the long run. SEO can only go so far in getting the word out, and it is fickle. You cannot base your entire marketing strategy around that.

I would suggest the following additonal avenues, which should be fully explored when chalking out a sales strategy:

1. Participating in trade shows. This is not just to hob nob with your peers, but in trade shows where you actually expect to meet potential customers. Trade shows catering to ecommerce industry or to the wholesale industry would be a good place to start.

2. Advertise specials on your services. Place an ad giving incentives to new customers for joining. Give discount on storage space, shipping and handling, pick and pack services etc. If you have a new facility with space sitting around give a huge discount on storage space for the first year. It will not hurt your bottom line.

3. List your warehouse on the search engine that caters to your industry. Specialized search engines, filter most of the traffic and usually brings in customers who are serious about finding services that you offer. Getting a top spot or a visible spot on a such a search engine should not be difficult.

Check us out at http://www.spacespecials.com/ and see how we can help you get the word out on your 3PL warehouse.

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