Weekly Round-Up: Collate Shipping Forms, Design Shipping Labels…

Here’s a round-up of some popular posts and interesting articles we talked about this week (plus a sneak peek of what’s coming up next week!) in a brief, easy to digest post.

There’s a lot to go over this week, so let’s get started!

Monday

• Burris Computer Forms Streamline Shipping For Cake Decorating Supplier. A great case study from the good people at The BarCode News!
• Looking to Design Your Own Shipping Labels and Pick Tickets? Take a look at this post to help you get started designing your own shipping labels and pick tickets.

Tuesday

• What Can You Do With An LS-U? Part 3: Shipping Label and Return Info. You can include return information on the same sheet as your packing slip and invoice so that your customer knows just what to do if they order the wrong item from you.
• Customize Forms to Improve Your Order Management. Do you use Multichannel Order Management (formerly Mail Order Management)? You can customize your forms to collate your packing slip and shipping label onto the same form.

Wednesday

• Why Should You Collate Shipping Forms? Have questions about collating shipping forms? Wondering what on earth it means to “collate shipping forms”? This post will be very beneficial for you.
• 12 Tips to Reduce Customer Hold Times. Besides collating shipping forms and using barcodes in your warehouse, how can you minimize the amount of time it takes to get a product to a customer? It can start with the time it takes to take their order.

Thursday

• 10 Direct Mail Marketing Mistakes to Avoid. This list comes straight from the USPS. You should take a look at this list before your next Direct Mail campaign goes underway to make sure you’re on the right track.
• 5 Every Door Direct Mail Takeaways. Five things we gathered from our EDDM Case Study.
  1. Easy to target local market
  2. Can do more for less
  3. Fast and easy
  4. Low cost
  5. Use these free DIY tools and Resources

Friday

• 10 Ways to Use Every Door Direct Mailers for Local Bakery Marketing. Looking to get a little extra business for your bakery? Here are ten ideas to use Every Door Direct Mailers to do just that!
• Check out our question on Twitter:
  

  How would you use #USPS‘s #EDDM? Let us know! #EveryDoorDirectMail

  ? BurrisComputerForms (@pcforms) March 16, 2012

Next Week!

Coming up next week we’ll have bar codes, information on the “Red Flag” policy, and ways to market with an Easter theme rolling through on the blog.

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