Importance of Product Packaging

Posted by Wilfredo Roderick

Packaging decisions for #manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers are influenced by several considerations. Since there are different requirements for different industries and #product lines, the answer may lie in the flexible packaging solutions. In this scenario, working with the #contractors can be quite beneficial as they provide services as well as packaging supplies to meet the packaging requirements.

It is important to make sure that the products are secured with primary and secondary layers packaging to ensure better protection and marketability. While packaging serves some different specific purposes for some businesses, it generally addresses following general or primary concerns of all businesses.

Product integrity
The top concern for all of the #businesses is to make sure that their products are being presented in the best light; and major part of it involves proper protection to the packaging during shipping. Companies have to make sure that special requirements of every product are met during production phase. Then materials are selected for primary packaging. It is ensured that those materials have the ability to protect the contents from getting harmed during #fulfillment, #transportation and #retail display.

Temper-proof enclosures
When you are marketing your products to your #customers, you have to make sure that they are protected against deliberate tempering. This is a specific requirement for the vital products such as pharmaceuticals and other expensive items. In this scenario, the application of temper-evident barriers is the common practice.

Theft protection
There are many products whose value is disproportionate to their size. In such cases, custom thermoformed enclosures are used to inflate the footprint of the products. For instance, phones and electronics are prized higher despite the fact that they are small in size. Since those products can be stolen and concealed quite easily, companies deliberately add too much of packaging materials in the packing of such items just to bulk up their presence. This way, those products are more visible on the shelves.

Merchandising
How your products are being received by the customers and what message they are getting hugely depend upon the way you are packaging your products. It is a part of branding process to use a specific container for specific product. This way, the package gradually becomes a representation of the product. This process of branding has become even more effective with the use of graphic printing on the outer packaging ranging from cardboard boxes to polyethylene bags.

Inventory management and stock rotation
Rather than keeping bulk stock and loose-pack items in focus, it is quite easier monitoring the packaging goods. The products can be rotated quite effectively with the help of information printed on the outer packaging.

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More upgrades

Posted by Ian Benninghaus

I’m happy to announce the newest addition to my ever expanding family, my Tamron AF18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC LD Aspherical (IF) MACRO lens.

It’s a brand new release and after tons of researching it I opted for the Tamron over Nikons 18-200mm VR
I’m surprised it was actually available before the new year seeing as how it was just announced this past summer.

Haven’t had a chance to get out and actually put it to the test yet but I’ve been reading some pretty decent reviews and it’s going to be a blast having a more than decent all-in-one walk around lens that can pretty much do everything from close up macro to wide angle to super-teleohoto without having to haul a ton of lenses around with me.

This picture doesn’t even do it justice but the photos I make with it will.

I get all of my stuff from Adorama and would also like to take this opportunity to plug B+W Filters, they’re Grrrrreat!

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Netflix ZERO page checkout: Step 1

Posted by Amit Gupta

Step 1 → Step 2 → Step 3

Netflix does a lot of things right with their website. For example, the way they use ajax and in-page popups to reveal title information when you hover over a movie title or photo is not only inspired, it’s really well executed.

I bought a used DVD on Netflix today, and was amazed by how smooth the process was. Ecommerce vendors are all about 1-page checkouts nowadays — Netflix manages to top them all with a ZERO PAGE CHECKOUT process.

Everything happens right on the page where you hit the buy button, with Lightbox-style floaters.

Very, very smooth.

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