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Quality Management, How High Are Your Standards?
You live your life from one quality control inspection to the next. Consider that your appearance, diet, and environment have all passed a quality control standard that you have deemed acceptable, and somewhere in the world, a manufacturer has collected and analyzed data to determine the standards acceptable to you, their target audience. Have you…
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Start-Up Checklist: Shipping Services & Rates
You just finished your work day at your full-time job and have come home to your true passion, your start-up soap business. You log onto your sales platform and see that you have sales, plural! Your customers selected different shipping services from multiple shipping providers. You anxiously check the time and your Shipping Provider Logistics schedule; with…
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Start-Up Checklist: Shipping Provider Logistics
Your start-up soap company’s sales are coming in HOT, and you are trying to harness the momentum to slingshot your company to the next level. Suddenly you receive a customer email, Subject: “Where is my order?” Cue the nervous sweats! One of the most valuable marketing strategies for a start-up is positive word-of-mouth. There are…
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Start-Up Checklist: SKUs
Your soap business is booming! Okay, so you have yet to come close to turning a profit. Still, you’re ready to add to your inventory because if we’ve learned anything from Hollywood, we know “If you build it, [they] will come.” You take to your kitchen and mix more scent combinations with your existing portfolio.…
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Start-Up Checklist: Fulfillment Kit
Congratulations! You’ve decided to chase your entrepreneurial dreams and opened your very first Shopify store to support your passion, soap making. You spent countless nights, after your day job as an accountant, designing your website. You’ve curated your product pages with variants, photos, descriptions, and pricing. Avocado oil is extra. You’ve linked your bank account. You hit…
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Can I Ship FedEx to a Military Post Office (MPO)?
Don’t do it! When you are shipping to a Military Post Office (MPO), save yourself the headache and the expense; ship using the Military Postal Service Agency (MPSA) via the United States Postal Service (USPS). If you don’t want to take my word for it, here are three (3) reasons why you should avoid shipping through a commercial shipping service (i.e., FedEx,…
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