#2649 - Q&A: “When is it time to outsource fulfillment?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we explore the strategic shift from self-managed order fulfillment to outsourcing for e-commerce businesses. Learn when to make the move and what to look for in a fulfillment partner.
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| 0:24.9 | you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something |
| 0:28.9 | goes wrong. When is it time to outsource fulfillment if you have been managing packaging shipping orders on your own, |
| 0:45.9 | perhaps for some e-commerce business you have developed, |
| 0:48.4 | or if you're thinking about selling a product and such, |
| 0:51.2 | at what point do you go from packaging all this stuff up in your house or |
| 0:54.6 | apartment or wherever it is you do such a thing to working with a partner that does |
| 0:59.4 | it for you? This is a big step in scalability and of course not every business wants to scale let's just say that right up front |
| 1:06.6 | It can be fun to package and ship your orders especially in the beginning |
| 1:10.3 | But if your business is taken off, then you want to think, |
| 1:13.0 | what's the best next step? |
| 1:14.0 | Might it be helpful to kind of free up some time |
| 1:16.0 | and allow me to grow the business elsewhere and such? |
| 1:19.0 | So that's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:20.0 | We've got a question from a listener, a Canadian listener, who is thinking |
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