There may be a perception that adding custom printing to your packaging will drastically increase your overall packaging costs, something that during an economic downturn (dare we use the dreaded “R” word?) may be unfeasible when the focus is on cost-savings and protecting the bottom...
How to Save on DTC Shipping Most of our customers and clients are DTC, direct-to-consumer companies. Over the last 14 years, they have taught us much about SEO and customer acquisition as well as overseas sourcing where many of their products are manufactured. However, the vast...
This is one of the most common questions we’re asked when designing e-commerce boxes. In some cases, the decision has been made well in advance, usually when the graphics are developed. On other projects, the board or substrate color can go either way. The below...
Answers to Your Corrugated E-Commerce Shipping FAQs What is the best corrugated board grade and flute for my DTC shipping box? We receive many phone and web inquiries about e-commerce shipping boxes: Is E-flute too thin for a shipping box? What is the difference between 32ECT...
E-Commerce Box Inside Printing Much has changed since we first started printing e-commerce boxes. It may seem incredible now but fourteen years ago, very few people were shipping boxes with inside printing. Obviously, we were not the only ones who saw that branding and messaging potential...
Attention DTC Box Customers; Price Increase is Here We have been warning friends and customers for several months that a substantial price increase was on the way. It has arrived and box manufacturers are raising prices anywhere from 7% to as much as 10%. The industry...
Akamai Selects Salazar Packaging For New Line of Natural Personal Care Products. Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning wise or intelligent and it perfectly describes this new company’s approach to some of the most personal care products you and I use. You can learn a...
The worst possible customer experience is for an eagerly awaited product to arrive damaged or broken. In addition to having a very disappointed customer, you also have to deal with product replacement, which can make a profitable order very unprofitable, very quickly. At the same time,...
If you are a regular reader of our blog you probably know we recently had the opportunity to help Madison Reed redesign their primary color kit shipper. (See first related post below) The end result was a smaller, greener shipper that has been a hit...
We have been making great looking, great performing e-commerce and subscription boxes for a long time. At our company, we measure experience in decades, not years, so it is fair to say we have had many conversations with a great variety of potential customers. We...