Shipping Garments: Challenges & Tips

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News

•  Lisa Wooten in Four Oaks, NC is a regular listener who reached out to Terry earlier this week. Thanks for listening, Lisa!

• PRINTING United Digital Experience Unveiled – The PRINTING United Digital Experience will span three action-packed weeks beginning October 26 and running through November 12. Representing market segments throughout the industry, the PRINTING United Digital Experience will offer education, insight, and new technology briefings for everyone across all job functions, at no cost. You can find the schedule detailing each day of the Digital Experience online at printingunited.com. Be sure to save the date – the countdown to registration is on!

• Sign up to exhibit at DAX in 2021 – DAX has navigated the waters and are now accepting exhibitor applications for the 2021 shows. They have been working hard to create a safer trade show environment and they will have extra-sanitary exhibit halls, socially distanced floorplans, one-way aisles and other measures to allow you to meet with your clients in an environment that should be no less safe than visiting the grocery store. Tentative dates are; Kansas City – February 19-20, 2021, Minnesota – March 18-19, 2021 and Chicagoland – April 23-24, 2021 Sign up before October 30th and save $100 per booth. Visit http://www.daxshow.com/ (For Show Notes only) Click here for an application or click here for more details or click here for pricing and statistics.

• Congratulations to the 6 winners of the inaugural Screen Printing Magazine Women in Screen Printing Award. The 6 amazing winners were announced and gave acceptance speeches on a Zoom Call yesterday at it was truly inspiring. Again congratulations to the winner, nominees and all of the women in our industry for making it such an amazing place.  

  Dad Joke: Marcia Derryberry, sales and marketing manager for Action Engineering contributed today’s Dad Joke.

  Did you know that sometimes Big Foot is confused with Sasquatch?

  Yeti never complains.

Shipping Garments

Erich: Bill Carlin is the CMO of Shipmate Fulfillment and has experience selling on most major eCommerce platforms including Amazon, Ebay, Walmart.com, and more. Bill helps empower eCommerce sellers through customizable client-focused third party logistic services that increase profits and enhance the customer experience.

Aaron: Talk to us first about Shipmate Fulfilment.

Erich: What are the challenges of storing garments in a fulfillment setting?

Aaron: Let’s talk about the challenges of shipping garments and the logistics of it all.

Erich: I’m sure any of our listeners looking to offer fulfillment will be interested in the services used to ship garments.

Aaron: Let’s discuss your ideas to improve the customer experience.

Erich: Returns must be a big challenge in fulfillment. Let’s talk about how best to handle them.

Aaron: Thanks so much for being on the show today, Bill. How can our listeners reach out to you?