Take It Outside – Free Up Your Crucial Resources by Outsourcing Fulfillment

Entrepreneur Magazine, July, 2007

Consider Shipwire.com, a firm whose fulfillment service lets growing online merchants outsource the entire process of receiving, warehousing and shipping merchandise. Shipwire.com’s services start at $29.95 per month for access to a national warehouse network, simple bundled pricing and an open developer network. More than 30,000 online stores have already built Shipwire technology into their operations. According to Damon Schechter, CEO of Shipwire.com and author of Delivering the Goods, small businesses spend more than $50 billion each year bringing bulk merchandise into the U.S., managing that inventory, and packing and shipping individual orders. “For most of these businesses, shipping is an inefficient and unwanted cost center,” Schechter explains. Read more. | PDF Version.