With the thousands of packaging solutions we provide, you’re never stuck for options at Lil Packaging. To help you find out what you need, how best to use it, or if you’re thinking of shipping to a different country, we’ve developed a collection of business-led articles designed to keep you in the know.
In our blog, you’ll find everything you need to know, and more, about branding, e-commerce, and packaging for your business. Yes, that’s right, packaging can help grow your business. Don’t believe us? Check out the content below. For more information on our packaging solutions, pop across to our range here.
Sony started a project to begin sending out CD’s and DVD’s directly to consumers via an ecommerce channel. Sony had for a long time been using corrugated cardboard ‘wrap sheeting’ with sealing tape to send out products in other areas of its business, so there was a perfectly natural assumption to use the same practices and technology with …
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For all of you online sellers and mail order traders out there prepping and packing up your Christmas orders, I’m sure you’ll be ecstatic for the peak period to come to a close. But for now, if you need any emergency last-minute packaging orders from us, here’s some key information about our Christmas trading:
According to the song, it’s “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” — and because smaller retailers make anywhere from 20 to 40% of their annual sales in November and December, they’re not wrong.
Christmas creates plenty of scope for surprising and delighting customers — and packaging plays a huge part. With simple changes, you can deliver festive magic, and …
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Switching to sustainable packaging doesn’t just do the planet good, it also makes perfect business sense. Greener packaging can make your shipping process more efficient through less waste and lower costs, and your customers might even appreciate it too. In fact, 66% of consumers say they’ll pay more for sustainable goods, a figure that rises to 73% for Millennials.
So …
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As we covered in our guide to creating the perfect unboxing experience, if you can deliver the “wow factor” along with your parcel, it can leave a great impression on your customer, and give a valuable boost to your brand image.
But once you’ve recognised that your packaging could do with a makeover, it can leave you with a …
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A successful online business doesn’t happen overnight — no matter how fantastic your product is. Whether you’re a global fashion brand or an up-and-coming craft entrepreneur, online sellers all have the same challenge: getting your products in front of potential customers, and convincing them to click that buy button.
For this, having a marketing strategy can really help. To build …
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When it comes to your customer unboxing an online order, it pays to make the experience memorable. Unforgettable moments like this are one of the easiest ways to brand and market your products: making sure your customers remember your brand, that they’re inspired to buy from you again — and rave about it on social media. How to actually go …
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Started in 2014, Curated Digital is a start-up-turned-stay-up digital marketing agency with a bit of a difference. After working at Google since its beginnings in 2003, an attempt at a comedy career and a few years crossing the brand and agency sides, Simon Douglass wanted to start an agency that actually listened to client goals and worked collaboratively on their …
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The Challenge
Drop Dead delivers edgy, limited edition clothing in menswear, womenswear, and collectables. Inspired by internet culture and life on the road, Drop Dead make the clothes your favourite rock bands would wear — along with references your parents probably wouldn’t understand.
Known for their high-quality rock-inspired creations, Drop Dead constantly defy convention. Their plastic mailing bags, however, didn’t. …
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The Challenge
Cadbury selection boxes are an integral part of the holiday season. However, with a growing online gifting market, Cadbury wanted to make their selection boxes more accessible to an online audience, all year round. As such, we at Lil Packaging were tasked with creating a bespoke ‘postal selection box’ that consumers could easily mail to their …
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It probably will come as no surprise to you to know that the United States is the UK’s biggest export destination. Fortunately, whether it’s through your own website or via the likes of Amazon and Etsy, tapping into this lucrative market has never been easier. However, as with any overseas market, it’s important to get to grips with the …
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If the item you need to send is big, bulky, and likely to take a bashing in transit, then a good quality cardboard box is most definitely a wise choice! But as for the rest of the time, are you at risk of overdoing it a little on the cardboard front?
There may indeed be more cost effective, more sustainable, …
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