by Alan Wright | May 22, 2026 | Packaging Design, Ecommerce Packaging, DTC Boxes
If you were to ask any corrugated mill, sheet plant, distributor, broker, or designer what their biggest customer complaint is, they’d probably all say: Customers who ask for a custom box quote before they need it. You may not realize (and hey, there’s no reason why...
by Alan Wright | Mar 30, 2026 | Packaging Solutions, Sustainable Perspective, Inside Sustainable Packaging, Sustainable Products
A couple years ago our Co-founder Dennis Salazar asked, Can Sustainability Go Too Far? He cited examples of packaging where this is indeed the case, such as single-use plastic water bottles that have become so flimsy they are practically unusable. It’s a case in which...
by Alan Wright | Feb 5, 2026 | Packaging Solutions, Packaging Design
The process of creating a packaging design can be like walking through a minefield. If you avoid these 10 packaging design landmines, your new package will provide excellent protection, please customers, and stay well within your budget. The 10 Biggest Packaging...
by Alan Wright | Dec 1, 2025 | Packaging Suppliers, Packaging Solutions
We’ve all been there. Hurray, your ceramic bowl has arrived! But using the shipping box’s “easy-opening” tear-off strip feels like a game of tug-of-war. The enclosed instructions for setting up the returnable shipping box are more complicated than instructions for...
by Alan Wright | Nov 20, 2025 | Ecommerce Packaging, DTC Boxes, Information Center
For direct-to-consumer (DTC) businesses, having a social media presence is a virtual necessity (pun intended). A DTC’s success hinges on brand enthusiasm, and today there’s no better way to build it than on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and several other platforms....
