E-commerce fulfillment services

If you've established a successful e-commerce store, but don't have the staff to pack and ship orders or the space to store inventory, e-commerce fulfillment services are the answer.

I recommend: Webgistix is a good choice for small businesses. They guarantee 100 percent accuracy with each order, promise they will ship any order within 24 hours or its free and charge as little as $1.95 per order. Efullfillment Service offers e-commerce fulfillment services to e-commerce and eBay stores. They use real-time order transmittal through merchant service partners such as Yahoo! Merchant Solutions and UltraCart.

Product fulfillment houses

Product fulfillment houses are a lifesaver for manufacturers, distributors and retailers who don't have the resources to dedicate to mail order, customer service and shipping. Many of them take over the complete process of order fulfillment from taking the order by phone, filling the order and shipping it to the customer.

I recommend: CrossCountry Fulfillment provides 24-hour phone support to take orders, process payments, warehouse, pick, pack and ship orders from one centralized location. Access Business Group goes a step further than basic order fulfillment houses. They also provide contract manufacturing on personal care, cosmetics, health and nutritional products so that you can have your proprietary formulas and products made, filled and shipped from one location, cutting down on the logistics of moving your products between a factory and fulfillment company. Advantage Media Services offers returns processing and refurbishment services to complement their fulfillment services.

Literature fulfillment services

Whether you provide magazine subscriptions to your clients or you need to ship printed marketing materials to hundreds of customers, you know that filling literature requests can be cumbersome and time-consuming. Literature fulfillment services specialize in warehousing your literature and either filling requests or sending subscription orders out on a regular basis.

I recommend: If you regularly send out product videos or compact disks, Corporate Disk Company may be the solution for you. They provide full service media duplication services, printing, packaging, warehousing and distribution of your media products. Midpoint National offers literature fulfillment services, stocking your sales literature and allowing remote-based dealers and salespeople to place orders through a customized web-based portal. If your company publishes a subscription-based magazine, visit the Magazine Publishers of America website to search for fulfillment services.

Rebate fulfillment services

Many manufacturers and retailers offer mail-in rebates as a customer incentive to buy their products. But having the manpower to fulfill those rebates may be more trouble than it's worth. By outsourcing the process to rebate fulfillment services, you can ensure that customer rebates are processed promptly.

I recommend: Promotion Fulfillment Center handles rebate fulfillment services as well as other promotion fulfillment services, including sampling, sweepstakes and e-commerce. Archway Marketing Services' rebate fulfillment services include simple rebate programs, multiple verification step rebate programs and combined rebate programs.