Increasing Sales at Your Business

Setting Your Home Office For Selling And Shipping Items

13 January 2019 by Roger Hoffman

If you have an online store, then you want to be sure you have your home office all set up for convenience, accuracy, and speed. When you start to get those orders coming in, you are going to want to handle them promptly, and you want to make sure everything gets to where it is going without getting lost or damaged along the way. The information here is going to help you to get your home office set up with some of the things that you will need in order for you to take care of your sales in an efficient manner.

Get set up through the post office

One of the major things that you are going to want to do is to get hooked up with the post office setup that allows you to measure your packages and print out the weighted postage stamps. Once printed, you just peel off the back and stick the labels on the package. When the postal carrier arrives, you will give them all of your outgoing packages, and they will be on their way to the people who bought them from you.

Have return address labels made up

You also want to have return address labels designed and saved in your computer. You can also print them out when you are printing out the shipping labels. Having printed labels allows you to quickly stick professional-looking return address labels on each parcel to provide the buyers with information on where the package came from. On these labels, you can also include small print under the address that includes your website address, or a small logo or motto.

Have packing supplies for fragile items

If you sell anything that is breakable or otherwise fragile, then you are going to want to be sure that you also have packaging materials on hand that you can use to pack the pieces safely, so they won't become damaged during transit. Make sure that you have all the different types of materials needed to protect the different items you will be selling. For example, some items may do best placed in a box with packing peanuts, while other items may be best wrapped up in sheets of bubble wrap.

Have a variety of mailing containers

Go through all of your inventory, and make sure you are stocked up on all of the different types and sizes of mailing containers you are going to need to mail out the different types of items that you have offered for sale. If you sell posters, you will want tube-shaped containers. You want boxes in all the different sizes you will need. If some of the things only require large envelopes, then make sure that you have them as well.

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