Growing your business up with fulfillment services

Posted on April 30, 2012

Growing your business up with fulfillment services

Bill Gates didn’t start out with a globally dominating company overnight – he started in his parent’s garage and set it on fire a few times in the process. As they say, you gotta crawl before you can walk, so if your business wants to expand into the homes of every man, woman and child, you may want to start with fulfillment services.

Arizona is a great place to start – with dozens of different companies that will pack and ship your product, ignoring Phoenix fulfillment services is not a wise business move, especially for younger products in infantile stages of development.

If the producer is new in town, he may not have adequate storage facilities or the funds to build them. Arizona fulfillment companies will typically have thousands of available square footage for use as storage. Also, if you warehouse your own inventory, you will definitely have additional expenses such as utilities and you have to pay union fees. Luckily, a fulfillment company is able to widely distribute this expense through storage fees they charge to multiple clients, resulting in a (typically) reasonable storage fee that is much commonly less than an individual company would pay themselves. Storage fees may vary by fulfillment company, however they normally consist of per item fees, per pallet fees, or dimensional storage fees based on the sheer volume of space your inventory would occupy.

THAT’S WHY PEOPLE CHOOSE FULFILLMENT SERVICES IN THE FIRST PLACE!

This way, there’s no reason to burn down your parent’s garage – go with a lower-priced, heavily staffed Arizona distribution center and you’ll not only be saving astronomically, you may just be the next Warren Buffet, and your fledgling product the next household na