So, how do you ensure that they remember what they got from your company more than the product that arrived on their doorstep the next day? Of course, having a superior product is crucial, and I know yours is, so the next point of distinction is your packaging.

Connecting With Customers

We all want to connect with our customers, bring a smile to their faces, and help them to feel good about the product(s) we send them. Combining the expected with a surprise can do that. That may mean beautiful holiday packaging, a handwritten note with a free sample of another product, or a full-size product developed specifically to be included during the holidays.

As you prepare your holiday packaging supplies for use, those retailers who use quality materials get extra points from consumers. It helps them to know that you care about them enough to go the extra mile to protect the item they ordered and to make it look pretty. It also sets you apart from your competition, and packaging suppliers like Pinnacle Packaging can help you make that happen.

Nostalgia is a Customer Favorite

When it comes to packaging trends, whether they are from the past or current, some remain timeless. Those that are nostalgic and bring back memories, those with festive patterns like snowmen and sleighs, the use of bright colors, and those that can be considered sustainable.

Be Clever

Another way to grab your customer’s attention during the holidays is to use clever wording or phrases on your packaging, whether on the product packaging itself, on the shipping box, on water-based tape, or inside the box on the paper stuffing or plastic pillows.

Several years ago, a few examples of clever wording included Stella Artois saying, “Originally Crafted for Christmas,” and Panera, who said, “You can only eat leftover ham and turkey for so long…” They paired that with takeout bags printed with red and white stars, a moon and trees, cardinals, and sayings such as Share Joy, Share Wonder, and Share Peace.

Other companies have gone for the laugh with a dose of realism. Beefeater Gin got snorts of laughter when they quipped, “When the wine and champagne isn’t strong enough to get you through the family reunion.”

Begin Your Own Tradition

Of course, you can start your own tradition. Perhaps it’s putting together coordinating colors and patterns used on shipping boxes, tape, and the inside filler. It could be red, green, and silver in stripes, solids, and a pattern. Perhaps you choose one element that you keep the same every year while the rest changes around it.

Or make up a different festive sticker each year that includes a dynamic QR code that lets you take customers to different web locations, such as a contest each year or a survey to fill out that generates a coupon code afterward. The sky truly is your limit when it comes to QR codes.

Whether you need to order holiday boxes, tape, stickers with a holiday QR code, brightly colored shredded paper, or cute holiday notecards, at Pinnacle Packaging, we are here to help you make great choices for the best price.

About Us

Pinnacle Packaging, Inc. offers our customers the best product selection and fast delivery, all at great prices. We are proud to offer over 20,000 quality products from well-known and trusted brands like 3M, Sealed Air, Tape Logic, Rubbermaid, Ivex, and many more. Our mission is to be the single source answer to all our customers’ packaging needs.

Through the years, we have established a reputation with our customers for providing fast, reliable, and professional service. Our high level of responsiveness to our customers’ needs keeps them coming back.

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So, how can you reduce your stress over this essential service? Should you take classes, practice a lot, or use a trusted partner, like Pinnacle Packaging, to take care of this for you?

Will it cost you to hire a professional service to crate, protect, and ship your items? Of course, it will, but some dollars are better spent than others, and paying for services that guarantee you and your customers peace of mind is certainly one of them.

Let’s talk about the steps we go through in order to get the item from your location to your customer’s. There are several steps we follow to ensure a successful and safe delivery.

Local Pick-Up

The process begins with our team picking up your item to be shipped and transporting it to our facility. We can coordinate with our fleet of trucks to pick up your items from anywhere in the upper Midwest. Workers will pad, protect, and strap down all of your belongings and take them to our shop for high-quality packing and crating. If you live outside our service area, we are more than happy to arrange for one of our reputable logistics partners to pick up your items.

Custom-Built Crates

There is, quite literally, a crate for every item that needs to be shipped. The process begins with a thorough assessment of your item, including measurements and evaluating specific challenges that must be met, such as whether it is fragile, is an unusual shape, and how much it weighs.

In order to protect your shipment throughout its entire journey, we use only the highest quality construction lumber and panels for our crates. Our standard industrial packing product consists of a substantial forklift-able platform as well as plywood or OSB panels with external frames measuring 1×4 or 2×4.

Crates come—or are made—in nearly every imaginable size out of the best materials for the job. Did you know that Pinnacle Packaging offers standard crates, custom-engineered crates, skids and pallets, mil-spec crates, Carolina Inspection Services (heat treated for export), museum and trade show crates, and knock-down and reusable crates.

Protective Packaging

When it comes to custom packaging and packing, no two items are the same. Whether they are delicate, fragile, very large and heavy, or anywhere in between, there is a combination of products that are perfect for every application.

We offer a variety of options to ensure that we meet the needs of your shipment every time. They include vacuum sealing, custom corrugated packaging, interior packing and padding, specialized custom cushioning, engineered product-specific packaging, and engineered packaging.

The protection chosen for your items is based on the item itself, and what will protect it in the best way possible.

Experienced Personnel

Our personnel are shipping experts with experience you can rely on to safely crate, pack, and ship your item to its destination. Without this component, the rest doesn’t matter. We have the experience and expertise to know what works best for every type of item you can ship, from interior protection to the crate itself.

For more information on shipping your valued cargo, please call us at (773) 235-6060.

About Us

Pinnacle Packaging, Inc. offers our customers the best product selection and fast delivery, all at great prices. We are proud to offer over 20,000 quality products from well-known and trusted brands like 3M, Sealed Air, Tape Logic, Rubbermaid, Ivex, and many more. Our mission is to be the single source answer to all our customers’ packaging needs.

Through the years, we have established a reputation with our customers for providing fast, reliable, and professional service. Our high level of responsiveness to our customers’ needs keeps them coming back.

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