Finding The Right Display Manufacturer

Because POP displays catch audiences at the exact right moment to promote your product, there’s a lot of pressure to ensure display campaigns are effective. It’s important that your display impacts consumers and influences them to purchase your product. The key to ensuring campaign success is to partner with the right marketing services provider and…

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Increase Your CLV: Build an eCommerce Store

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Customer Lifetime Value or CLV is the total worth to a business of a customer over the whole period of their relationship with that company. This important metric proves that it costs less to keep existing customers than it does to acquire new ones; increasing the value of your existing customers is a great way…

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Ensure Marketing Compliance with RetailEdge

The process of maintaining a database of information on every single retail store location, or franchise business, is called store profiling. This was also detailed in our previous blog post titled: “What is Store Profiling?” The database tracks all pertinent marketing information allowing companies the opportunity to customize their marketing efforts for each location. Store…

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What is a comprehensive promotion management solution?

For more than 35 years, the team here at EPI Marketing Services has offered a comprehensive promotion management solution designed to offer you consultative support every step of the way from ideation all the way through 1099 distribution. Whether you’re doing a one-off promotion or you’re managing more than 100 promotions at one time, our…

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How Does EDI Work?

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EDI stands for Electronic Data Interchange. This computer-to-computer exchange of information helps manage standard business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, inventory levels and shipping notices. EDI software solutions help to coordinate the exchange of business documents and data across a variety of platforms and programs. Businesses can use EDI for things like maintaining vendor-managed inventory (VMI)…

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Three Ways to Manage Kitting for eCommerce

In our recent post “Five Options to Consider in Your eCommerce Product Kitting Efforts” we discussed how product kitting makes it easy to manage all sorts of eCommerce goods and business models. Then we offered specific examples to consider in your own eCommerce efforts. In this post we will wrap up this series on kitting by…

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Five Options to Consider in Your eCommerce Product Kitting Efforts

In our post titled “Bundling or Kitting and eCommerce,” we discussed how today’s online shoppers have become accustomed flexibility and customization. We addressed the question of how eCommerce sellers can meet the demand of such a buying experience and discussed the benefits of product kitting in eCommerce.    In this post we will discuss several…

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Bundling or Kitting and eCommerce

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Buyers today expect flexibility and customization when it comes to shopping online. From Etsy to Amazon to BarkBox, eCommerce has evolved to meet the needs of consumers, spoiling us and setting expectations for custom experiences. How can eCommerce sellers meet modern buyer expectations? Bundling or product kitting (used interchangeably here) helps sellers customize a buyer’s…

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Building a Brand Through eCommerce, part 2

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In part one of this two part blog about building a brand through eCommerce, we acknowledged this takes time and tenacity and may even feel outside our comfort zone, at times. Our first three reasons for considering an eCommerce store to help you build your brand included: Brand awareness An eCommerce store full of branded…

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Building a Brand Through eCommerce, part 1

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Building a brand can take time. It also takes a certain tenacity. And at times, it takes a creativity that can feel a bit outside of our comfort zone. For many businesses, an online store with branded merchandise may feel like a waste. “We’re a widget company, not a clothing or sticker company.” We’ve heard…

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