Green Options » localizing http://greenoptions.com/tag/localizing Posts tagged 'localizing' Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:15:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en On Demand Warehousing: The Smart, Green Option in This Uncertain Economy http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/10/30/on-demand-warehousing-the-smart-green-option-in-this-uncertain-economy/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/10/30/on-demand-warehousing-the-smart-green-option-in-this-uncertain-economy/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:15:46 +0000 Paul Smith http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/10/30/on-demand-warehousing-the-smart-green-option-in-this-uncertain-economy/ ShipWire on demand warehousingAh, the internet, what an amazing tool you are for helping businesses grow. Or even exist. You allow so much more to happen for so many more people than in the past.  And yet, there’s only so much you can do online, if you deal in physical products. They need to be stored somewhere. Packed. Shipped. Returned. All necessary, and yet for most entrepreneurs, something they’d rather not deal with. You’ve come up with a product line that more and more people love, and it’s making you more and more hate what fulfilling on that demand has begun to entail.

You find yourself needing a warehouse, or needing a bigger one then you have. Maybe you don’t need a warehouse, but managing all the nittie gritties is extra hassle you’d rather not have. Or perhaps your customers aren’t just local anymore, and your carbon footprint is getting larger because of the shipping. What to do?

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