PACKING & SHIPPING CONSULTING SERVICES

Packing & Shipping
Store Opening & Training Services

We have consultant contacts to assist you with most needs to open and operate a packing and shipping service center. If you are interested in speaking with a consultant, email us regarding your needs, and please make the subject title of your email Pack Ship Consulting. We will forward you information on the consultant who may meet your needs best.

Below is a list of services of which our consultant contacts can provide.

If you think that training is expensive, try ignorance.

--David Shappee, Business Solutions, 1997

Store Build-Out and Set-Up Services

Licensed Contractor, Mechanical Engineer, and Computer Consultant for complete store opening services. Specialties include:

• Store layout design
• Store building, including mail box unit building and installation, slotwall installation, flooring, etc.
• Furniture and fixture design and selection
• Custom furniture building (front counters, customer tables)
• Product selection and starting inventory
• Merchandising and display
• Computer system selection and set-up
• Signage

Initial Store Decision-Making

• Business plan development
• Store locating selection
• Store lease negotiations
• Equipment selection and lease negotiations
• Vendor Selection
• Pricing Strategies

Packing and Shipping Training

• Carrier training
• Packaging training
• Fragile item packaging
• Custom box making training
• Crate building training
• Large freight training
• Insta-pak (foarm-in-place) training
• Point-of-Sale training
• "Working a store" training

Operations Training

• Employee selection and management
• Customer service training
• Inventory managment and control
• Peak period planning
• Bookkeeping set-up & accounting information

Marketing Training

• Marketing plan development
• How to establish large account sales (crating and custom work)
• In-store selling
• Outside sales & marketing training
• Advertising assistance

Only the Scarboroughs are employees of Vision Alliance Network, Inc. Other consultants are the ones who we know and recommend. Vision Alliance Network is not responsible for the services of consultants other than the Scarboroughs, however.

Read a Professional Biography of Rutledge Scarborough

Read Professional Biography on Fran Scarborough

If you are interested in speaking with a consultant, email us regarding your needs, and please make the subject title of your email Pack Ship Consulting. We will forward you information on the consultant who may meet your needs best.

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• PACKING & SHIPPING STORES OPERATIONS MANUAL
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