For brick-and-mortar businesses, packaging design is crucial, since it’s what will shape a prospective customer’s initial interaction with your product. People who will see and learn about your product for the first time will form their first impression based on how your packaging looks and your packaging design is as essential as the product itself.
Even before the global pandemic, subscription boxes were already on the rise, enticing people with the ease and variety they offer, with minimal effort required from customers. Since social distancing measures were put in place and many retailers closed their physical stores, subscription deliveries have skyrocketed even further.
Corrugated carton can withstand long shipping times making it top of the list when it comes to packaging solutions.
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Many brands and products are created specifically for the luxury market, targeting clients and customers with the money to splash out on ritzy, upscale, niche goods. These products often require the protection and marketing potential of premium or luxury packaging.
But what is premium packaging, and what makes it different from any other sort of packaging?
As many businesses have moved online, more and more companies are using email to market their goods and services. While this can be an effective way to engage with loyal customers, the sheer volume of emails that the average person receives guarantees that many of them will be deleted without ever being opened.
At the same time our email inboxes are overflowing, our physical mailboxes are looking emptier. That means that a well-designed direct mail piece may attract more attention than an email. This is particularly true with new customers who aren't familiar with your company and have little reason to open your emails.
2020 was a year for the history books, a year when we all remembered just what is important to us and what really matters.
Whilst flowers and chocolates still remain high on gift shoppers lists, consumers are looking for new ways to celebrate this day, and not just with their significant others, but also with family, friends, co-workers, and pets.
Printed cardboard sleeves or belly bands can provide your packaging with increased flexibility, whilst capturing consumer attention and driving sales too.
Over the past 12 months you have probably come into contact with some form of ecommerce packaging.
You may have received an order from an online shop in the last week, or highly likely that you have received a delivery on the same day as you are reading this.
