Ecommerce advice: how customer reviews can help build your brand, and how to get them

Have you ever shopped online, and thought: “This looks amazing – but what are people saying about it…?”

When shopping online, reading the reviews before buying is now second nature. 95% of us do it — because no matter how good the sales pitch is, or how stunning the website, a past buyer’s opinion is always more trustworthy than what …

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Case study roundup – five neat examples of creative custom postal packaging

At Lil Packaging, we’re lucky enough to work with some amazing brands, with amazing products. We love a challenge, and creating the ideal packaging for our clients — whether luxury fashion or children’s toys — ensures the items inside are protected and presented to buyers beautifully. This is an essential part of any modern brand’s marketing strategy: with …

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Sony and the Lil Envelope | Case Study

The Challenge

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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Christmas festive shutdown period and last orders 2018-2019

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:

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Tis the season: five ways to give your postal packaging a festive Christmas twist

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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Our top five most common sustainable packaging mistakes

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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Branding on a budget: how to create a luxury unboxing experience for less

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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What makes packaging key to your marketing strategy?

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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How to create the perfect unboxing experience with your postal packaging

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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7 easy digital marketing steps for boosting e-commerce sales

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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Drop Dead Clothing – High Impact Packaging for High Impact Fashion | Case Study

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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33 monochrome logos that are the new black

The power of brand storytelling through design

2018 has been scary… we’ve got the horror posters to prove it.

Cars hurdling towards Mars… Ominous orange monstrosities floating above a city… A flurry of tweets threatening to attack. Sound like a good lineup for your Halloween horror movie binge? Alas, it’s just a catalogue of current events. 2018 has been a turbulent year all around the world. In the spirit of the season, we challenged the designers on our platform to reimagine some of this year’s stand-out moments in the style of classic horror movie posters.

Politics that could have dire consequences
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Europe had a happy relationship for so long, but in 2016 things started to crumble. Now it’s 2018 and the UK and the EU are starting to realize the true terror that comes from Brexit. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, Australia is on its seventh prime minister in just ten years. I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to wonder what happened to the old ones. #blackwidow?

An orange monster looming over a city
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They heard he was coming, and there was nothing they could do to stop him, so they took it upon themselves to fight back. But what they wrought was a giant, 20 foot orange monstrosity!

Fake news or otherwise, no individual has been the subject of quite so many headlines in 2018 as the 45th American President. The now-iconic Trump Baby balloon, first seen in London floating above the Houses of Parliament, takes center stage in these re-imaginings:

Pop culture is dark and full of terrors
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Social media provides 24 hour access to people’s innermost thoughts and musings… people who haven’t done anything impressive are still somehow celebrities… remakes of TV shows and movies are more popular than original content!

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The 10 best freelance album cover designers for hire in 2018

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Cadbury Selection Box | Case Study

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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Starting your eCommerce business? Things you must know about shipping to America

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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The 10 best freelance label designers for hire in 2018

38 unique business cards that will make you stand out

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Why you don’t always need a cardboard box – alternative packaging solutions

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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The 10 best freelance infographic designers for hire in 2018

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Protecting your items – what’s the most versatile packaging protection?

Whether you’re sending off gifts or trying to keep your customer feedback healthy, it’s important to have a go-to method of packaging that you can always rely on. You want your items to stay protected, waste as little packaging as possible, and not pay an extortionate rate for it. But are you making the right choices?

You might not have …

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The 10 best freelance 3d designers for hire in 2018

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Custom cardboard box design: how to make your eCommerce business stand out

Ecommerce brands of all shapes and sizes are looking for the same thing: a steady flow of happy customers who want to spread the word of how great their products and services are. To do this you’ll need to stand out, and it can be natural to focus heavily on your online presence. It’s important though not to overlook that …

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Moving office the right way: how do you protect your items? Packing tips by Lil Packaging

If you’ve got an office move planned, your job is twofold: to make sure everything gets from A to B in one piece and to keep disruption to an absolute minimum. But from desktop monitors and paper files, right through to the artwork in reception, an office move can involve having to move a surprisingly wide range of items, each …

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The 10 best freelance poster designers for hire in 2018

Vote for July’s Top 9 at 99

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How to optimise your eCommerce packaging to go eco-friendly

When you keep your packing and shipping process as eco-friendly as possible, everyone feels the benefit. Smarter, greener packaging not only means less waste for your customers to deal with, helping you stand out as a responsible business, but it also means that you do your bit for the planet and even save on costs. But how can you make …

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9 cutting-edge mobile app design trends for 2018

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Our ultimate guide to clothing packaging for eCommerce businesses

When your package lands at the customer’s door, it’ll probably be the first time they’ve ever seen and felt your product in person. From opening the box down to unwrapping the clothing itself, the whole experience will leave a lasting impression on them. If you don’t get it right you run the risk of losing returning customers, receiving negative reviews …

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The 9 best Shopify designers for hire in 2018

39 fun logos that we seriously love

The top 5 worries about international shipping for eCommerce, and how to solve them

Don’t worry, one of them isn’t pirates – we just love that image!

You’ve put together an amazing product range, and from London to New York — and pretty much everywhere in between — your website is getting a steady flow of visitors. Now comes the final hurdle: getting those orders out to your customers safely, swiftly, and at low …

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20 stunning web design ideas that will get everyone clicking

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Cardboard boxes and packaging for eCommerce: how to minimise damage to your items

For your customers, the unboxing of your product is an important event. It should leave a great impression on them of not only the product, but the brand as a whole — so getting this right is essential. But if they open up their package to find a battered vintage evening gown, broken sunglasses or scratched vinyl LP, they won’t …

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Plastic Free eCommerce Postal Packaging – our commitment to sustainability in 2018

Friday the 8th of June was #WorldOceansday, which is perfect timing for our announcement as this really drives home the need for some serious change in the packaging industry. Our vision is to be the world’s most ethical ecommerce packaging provider, in the hope that others will follow suit.

By the end of 2018 we will have removed all …

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Annual Stock Take – No despatches on Tuesday 3rd April

Dave and our warehouse team are excited to be holding their annual stocktake on Tuesday 3rd April – there will therefore be no despatches on this day. All will be back to normal on Wednesday 4th April.

Good luck, Dave

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Garden 13, Graanmarkt 13 by Base

Opinion by Seth Rowden Graanmarkt 13 is a restaurant, high-end concept store and apartment in Antwerp. It is described by Base, the studio behind its graphic identity, as a special house, a crossover place full of surprises. This was articulated through a story that positioned Graanmarkt 13 as a haven for people in search of objects […]

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Job description of a graphic designer: What does a designer do?

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The 12 best freelance flyer designers to hire in 2018

A flyer is a great way to spread the news. Whether you’re posting them around your neighborhood to advertise an event or handing out sell sheets at a conference, you want your flyer to look great. How do you get a flyer that pops? Hire an amazing flyer designer! To give you a head start, we’ve rounded up a group of fantastic, professional flyer designers from around the world who are ready to work with you, no matter what your project is.

The best flyer designers of 2018
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1. clarferrer

Top Level     4.98 stars, 44 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, poster design, menu design

Work with clarferrer

2. smashingbug

Top Level     4.96 stars, 96 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, web page design, product packaging design

Work with smashingbug

3. tadaam

Top Level     5.00 stars, 96 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, brochure design, banner ad design

Work with tadaam

4. tale026

Top Level     4.96 stars, 109 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, web page design, product packaging design

Work with tale026

5. Trisixtin

Top Level     4.98 stars, 54 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, poster design, brochure design

Work with Trisixtin

6. YaseenArt

Top Level     4.96 stars, 200 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, brochure design, app design

Work with YaseenArt

7. Adwindesign

Top Level     4.97 stars, 288 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, brochure design

Work with Adwindesign

8. tündérke

Top Level     5.0 stars, 11 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, web page design, brochure design

Work with tündérke

9. FuturisticBug

Top Level     4.92 stars, 185 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, brochure design, app design

Work with FuturisticBug

10. Elven Song

Top Level     4.99 stars, 92 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, brochure design

Work with Elven Song

11. Iulia Tatar

Top Level     4.98 stars, 40 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, brochure design

Work with Iulia Tatar

12. Alina’s

Top Level     5.0 stars, 51 reviews

Specialties: postcard, flyer or print design, brochure design, book cover design

Work with Alina’s

A well-designed flyer makes your business, product or event look great. These 12 flyer designers might be just the ticket. But there are a bunch more amazing flyer designers from around the globe to choose from!

Want more flyer designer choices?

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Piccolo by Here Design

Opinion by Richard Baird. Piccolo is an Italian seed brand with a particular favour for those that are ideal for urban growers, people with small balcony gardens or working with limited space. It is a brand with character, with product naming that includes Slim Jim Aubergine and Spacemaster Cucumber expressing the space-smart dwarf varieties of the range. Piccolo worked […]

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It’s 2018 and vaping is still trending… yet another booming subscription business model

We spoke about the trending interest in the subscription business model in our last article on ways to grow a floristry business online, and vaping interest growth has almost doubled that trend in terms of percentage growth attained over the past 5 years.

The trend on eCigarettes and vaping is still growing strong well into 2018 and shows no signs of letting off steam – Google Trends figures show a 1300% growth in interest and searches relating to sector over 5 years. With smoking now firmly considered a ‘pariah’ activity in the majority of social circles –  Ecigs and Vaping has become a somewhat more socially acceptable alternative. Vaping has experienced explosive growth over the past 5 years inline with trending interest. A whole new industry of DIY vape oil suppliers, e-juice blenders and “mixologists” have cropped up throughout the world. The smaller players have responded rapidly to change and have secured a substantial chunk of the marketplace.

As we mentioned in our post from a few years back (ref) – the larger multinationals have responded by using their political clout to lobby for regulatory change in their favour according to ECigaretteDirect. The “Tobacco Products Directive” is now active and has been amended twice since we published our original article.  Not only that, the retail model that was adopted early and easily by both small and large vendors is now being heavily competed against through the ‘convenience’ factor provided by the rise of subscription-based vape etailers.

The evidence to support or undermine the ‘health-case’ surrounding vaping is hotly contested on all sides – still with no real clear winner even in 2018. However, that hasn’t stopped vaping and ecig technology from being supported as a smoking quit-aid via the NHS here in the UK, with British American Tobacco’s option the first ‘specified’ solution. The FDA in the United States has completed the path to stamping on the vaping market, meaning that in both marketplaces, disruption is imminent.

Ten years after the smoking ban, vaping is a £1bn business

Many of the players in the Vape market are focusing on the quality of their products – however we’re helping some savvy Ecig and Vape vendors to improve upon their service. As mentioned above, subscription-based mail-order operations have much lower overheads than retail operations, and those that know what they are doing have experienced exponential growth. This means that they must focus on quality service fulfilment of their orders – ensuring they arrive on time, in full, every time.  Then there is also the mailing and packaging costs that they will incur. Given the hugely competitive environment, excessive packaging, fulfilment labour costs and a distinct lack of competitive edge could all sink a business in the short to long term.

Royal Mail Restricted Items: Including eau de parfum, eau de toilette and alcohol-free perfumes, but excluding non-flammable perfumed creams, gels, oils or lotions.

With the Royal Mail and other carriers quite happy to have non-flammable vape oils in their network, focusing on a quality service as much as product might just help your business differentiate itself enough to survive the coming storm!

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It’s 2018 and vaping is still trending… yet another booming subscription business model

We spoke about the trending interest in the subscription business model in our last article on ways to grow a floristry business online, and vaping interest growth has almost doubled that trend in terms of percentage growth attained over the past 5 years.

The trend on eCigarettes and vaping is still growing strong well into 2018 and shows no signs of letting off steam – Google Trends figures show a 1300% growth in interest and searches relating to sector over 5 years. With smoking now firmly considered a ‘pariah’ activity in the majority of social circles –  Ecigs and Vaping has become a somewhat more socially acceptable alternative. Vaping has experienced explosive growth over the past 5 years inline with trending interest. A whole new industry of DIY vape oil suppliers, e-juice blenders and “mixologists” have cropped up throughout the world. The smaller players have responded rapidly to change and have secured a substantial chunk of the marketplace.

As we mentioned in our post from a few years back (ref) – the larger multinationals have responded by using their political clout to lobby for regulatory change in their favour according to ECigaretteDirect. The “Tobacco Products Directive” is now active and has been amended twice since we published our original article.  Not only that, the retail model that was adopted early and easily by both small and large vendors is now being heavily competed against through the ‘convenience’ factor provided by the rise of subscription-based vape etailers.

The evidence to support or undermine the ‘health-case’ surrounding vaping is hotly contested on all sides – still with no real clear winner even in 2018. However, that hasn’t stopped vaping and ecig technology from being supported as a smoking quit-aid via the NHS here in the UK, with British American Tobacco’s option the first ‘specified’ solution. The FDA in the United States has completed the path to stamping on the vaping market, meaning that in both marketplaces, disruption is imminent.

Ten years after the smoking ban, vaping is a £1bn business

Many of the players in the Vape market are focusing on the quality of their products – however we’re helping some savvy Ecig and Vape vendors to improve upon their service. As mentioned above, subscription-based mail-order operations have much lower overheads than retail operations, and those that know what they are doing have experienced exponential growth. This means that they must focus on quality service fulfilment of their orders – ensuring they arrive on time, in full, every time.  Then there is also the mailing and packaging costs that they will incur. Given the hugely competitive environment, excessive packaging, fulfilment labour costs and a distinct lack of competitive edge could all sink a business in the short to long term.

Royal Mail Restricted Items: Including eau de parfum, eau de toilette and alcohol-free perfumes, but excluding non-flammable perfumed creams, gels, oils or lotions.

With the Royal Mail and other carriers quite happy to have non-flammable vape oils in their network, focusing on a quality service as much as product might just help your business differentiate itself enough to survive the coming storm!

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Riso D’uomo by Here Design, United Kingdom

Opinion by Richard Baird Riso D’uomo is a Milanese Carnaroli rice brand, cultivated from the same stock over hundreds of years, and grown within sight of the historic Duomo di Milano. Carnaroli is often referred to as ‘the king of rice’, and is known for its high-quality nutritional properties, cooking consistency and a ‘bite’ that makes it ideal for […]

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The 9 best freelance app icon designers to hire in 2018

Your app icon may be a small square, but it has a huge impact on the success of your app. A great icon communicates your app’s purpose and entices the right people to download. In order to stand out from the crowd, you want your icon designer to be an expert. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to sacrifice your first born child in order to hire a Johnny Ives protege. Luckily, we have a great freelance icon designer online ready to work with you, no matter what your budget is!

The best icon designers of 2018
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1. Dee-Excetude ◕‿◕

Top Level     4.96 stars, 47 reviews

Specialties: icon or button design, logo design, sticker design

Work with Dee-Excetude ◕‿◕

2. MAM2

Top Level     4.91 stars, 58 reviews

Specialties: icon or button design, logo design, other design

Work with MAM2

3. milomilo

Top Level     5.0 stars, 37 reviews

Specialties: icon or button design, illustration or graphics, character or mascot

Work with milomilo

4. Mazymaze

Top Level     5.0 stars, 21 reviews

Specialties: icon or button design, logo design, product label design

Work with Mazymaze

5. Re Brand

Top Level     5.0 stars, 7 reviews

Specialties: icon or button design, app design, web page design

Work with Re Brand

6. Clicky inc

Top Level     4.98 stars, 148 reviews

Specialties: icon or button design, app design

Work with Clicky inc

7. faleksandar

Top Level     5.0 stars, 48 reviews

Specialties: icon or button design, logo design, social media design

Work with faleksandar

8. Arthur Bauer

Top Level     4.93 stars, 45 reviews

Specialties: icon or button design, logo design, app design

Work with Arthur Bauer

9. Akira X3

Top Level     4.97 stars, 67 reviews

Specialties: icon or button design, illustration or graphics, logo design

Work with Akira X3

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