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Promotional and Gift Packaging that Pops
We are always careful to describe and detail the potential pitfalls of investing a lot of money/time/attention to the...
Celebrate Thanksgiving With Our Packaging Turkey Awards
Everybody enjoys a Thanksgiving turkey, but packaging turkeys … not so much. Below we present to you seven...
How Packaging Can Help Reduce Your 3PL Fulfillment Cost
A regular reader of this blog might incorrectly believe that we are anti-3-PL. To the contrary, we believe copackers,...
Custom Packaging for Cosmetic and Skincare Products
Of the many products we design and create packaging for, cosmetic and skincare products often lend themselves to the...
7 Ways to Get Better Pricing and Service from Your Packaging Company
If you are frustrated because your packaging materials seem to be too expensive, or your level of service is less...
Retail Ready Packaging-Paperboard Hanging Cartons
If you’ve spent any time recently on our newly designed website Salazarpackaging.com, you may have noticed that we are...
Tips for Text on Kraft Corrugated Shipping Boxes
If you are investing in kraft-color, custom printed corrugated shipping boxes, you want to get the best return...
E-Commerce Outlook
I enjoy reading Packaging World Magazine, although most of the articles and information they provide does not apply to...
Eco-Obvious Ecommerce Packaging
Being sustainable has never been a higher priority for many businesses, as they look to minimize their environmental...
2 Huge Things You Need to Know about the Custom Box Industry
There are two ways to buy custom corrugated boxes — from a manufacturer or from a broker. Manufacturers are either...
Why Add Internal Packaging in Your E-Commerce Shipping Boxes?
We have been creating shipping containers and internal packaging long enough to understand why some companies avoid...
Salazar Packaging Gallery Updated—What’s New?
One of the great joys of having a gallery on our website is to look back at the history of our packaging story as told...
Why Low-priced Packaging Is Expensive
Customers and prospects often tell us, “We need a lower price!” In some cases, the most truthful response we can...
Printing Colors on Brown Corrugated Board
Many box customers who seek our advice believe the only way they can print attractive colors onto corrugated is to...
4 Ways to Know You Need a New Packaging Supplier
Since every third or fourth business you bump into is a packaging company, it’s very tempting to solicit quotes...
The Potential E-Commerce Impact of a White Board Shortage
We have been notified that in the next few months, white board could be in short supply. Unfortunately, just in time...
Glass Bottle Packaging with NO Breakage/Damages
It’s important to preface that this is not a Salazar Packaging promise or claim. We can never promise no breakage or...
Three Good Reasons to Engage a Good Structural Designer for Your New E-commerce Packaging
When you are launching a new product or product line, or perhaps upgrading, and refreshing an existing product, we...
Holiday Packaging Early Buying Perks
The summer months may seem like downtime for the custom packaging world, but when you consider August and September...
Packaging Right Sizing Finally Gets the Attention it Deserves!
When we started our company in 2007 and our blog in 2008, we could not help but notice the great variety of packaging...
New E-Commerce Packaging Projects Wanted
In our B2B (business to business) world, you rarely hear of a packaging company offering a “sale price” or special...
Rush Orders—A Custom Packaging Scam?
Scams are seemingly everywhere nowadays, and some are far more obvious than others. We’ve all seen the email in our...
What’s Hot in Ecommerce Packaging?
As we crack the official start of summer, most of the country is facing a heat wave of historical context. Here in the...
Inside Sustainable and Branded Packaging -16th Anniversary
Sweet 16 is a great basketball term you hear often during the NCAA basketball tournament, AKA “March Madness”. It is...