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eCommerce Allows You to Test Market New Products & Ideas (Cheaply)

eCommerce Allows You to Test Market New Products & Ideas (Cheaply)

Another powerful benefit available with embracing eCommerce for manufacturers: eCommerce allows you the opportunity to explore the market by testing new products and ideas.  In other words, eCommerce enables you to create your very own R & D department (Research and Development).  Cheaply…oops…I mean, inexpensively!  Related Article: Another Incredible eCommerce Benefit: No Major Capital Expenditures […]

Captain Your Ship! eCommerce Helps You Stay in Your Wheelhouse 

Captain Your Ship! eCommerce Helps You Stay in Your Wheelhouse 

Another tremendous benefit for manufacturers embracing eCommerce: eCommerce allows you to stay in your wheelhouse.  As a manufacturer, ever find yourself stumbling out of your wheelhouse?  Drifting down a path that falls outside of your strengths and core capabilities.  Especially for custom manufacturers.  If you do not know what I am referring to, God bless […]

Hey Manufacturer, What’s on Your Menu? Perhaps a Plate of eCommerce?

Hey Manufacturer, What’s on Your Menu? Perhaps a Plate of eCommerce?

As a manufacturer, what is on your menu? What is your specialty? You know, your signature dish. In other words, what are you known for that customers eagerly line up to get a taste? For many manufacturers, this may come as a loaded question. As you explore and consider Manufacturing eCommerce Strategies, defining your menu […]

Eliminate the Cumbersome RFQ Process with eCommerce

Eliminate the Cumbersome RFQ Process with eCommerce

Another key ingredient on the list of eCommerce Benefits for manufacturers includes cutting down or even eliminating the cumbersome Request-for-Quote (RFQ) process.  Especially since going through the RFQ process is a huge expense to your company. With no guarantee that you will land the bid. URGH! However, scaling your proprietary process with a predetermined product […]

No Receivables: Manufacturing eCommerce Strategies Benefits Cash Flow

No Receivables: Manufacturing eCommerce Strategies Benefits Cash Flow

One of my absolute favorites on the list of eCommerce Benefits: No Receivables!  Well, truth be told, trying to pick a favorite eCommerce benefit is like trying to pick a favorite child.  However, can you imagine a life with NO receivables?  Sounds like heaven, right? I am pretty sure I would still have hair if […]

Another Incredible eCommerce Benefit: No Major Capital Expenditures

Another Incredible eCommerce Benefit: No Major Capital Expenditures

Another incredible benefit that comes with embracing eCommerce for manufacturers: No major capital expenditures.  For the record, I am CHEAP. Extremely cheap.  Feel free to ask my wife, friends, family or even my 140 LB Rottweiler.  Actually, I spoil my Rottie so he might not be the best to ask.  Anyway, with that in mind, […]

8 Steps to Conquer the “Job Shop Challenge” with eCommerce

8 Steps to Conquer the “Job Shop Challenge” with eCommerce

Are you a custom manufacturer or contract manufacturer? Otherwise, known as a job shop.  Well, most custom manufacturers find great difficulty conquering the “Job Shop Challenge”.  What exactly is this particular “Job Shop Challenge” that I am referring to?  So glad you asked.  First, let’s take a look at the incredible business that you built […]

Hey Manufacturer, Let’s Scale Your Proprietary Process with eCommerce

Hey Manufacturer, Let’s Scale Your Proprietary Process with eCommerce

Scale Your Proprietary Process! How?  With eCommerce.  Let’s discuss further.  eCommerce Answers the Call Yes indeed, eCommerce allows you to Scale Your Proprietary Process. However, before we discuss eCommerce, let’s take a look at your business.  For years, possibly your business’s entire existence, as a custom manufacturer you have made parts or products for other […]

Once again, eCommerce Saves the Day! No More Cold Calls

Once again, eCommerce Saves the Day! No More Cold Calls

So you hate making cold calls?  Join the club.  Well, eCommerce perfectly suits the individual who loathes spending their time making cold calls.  Especially for those manufacturers who are introverts.  In many cases, a manufacturer or business owner is the widget expert.  They thrive on operations and production.  Give them a problem to solve, they […]

Hey Manufacturers, Fighting to Dominate Search is the Name of the Game

Hey Manufacturers, Fighting to Dominate Search is the Name of the Game

Wouldn’t it be great if your company could Dominate Search? Wait, Dominate Search? Seriously? Yet, isn’t that the dream of every small business owner and search marketer? Just think if each and every time an ideal customer or your “soulmate” is searching for the products or services that you provide, there you are, hanging out […]