StartSampling Inc.

Product Sampling is a complex set of processes requiring Best Practice thinking and execution that ultimately creates a seamless experience for StartSampling’s brand, agency and retailer customers and very importantly for the samplers themselves who are touched by the program. StartSampling provides turnkey services to Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) marketers, their agency partners and retailer customers in the design, execution, fulfillment, monitoring and measurement of online and mailed sampling projects. By delivering efficient and effective sampling services, StartSampling serves as a Best Practice provider for CPG clients looking to deploy product sampling programs across a variety of channels.

StartSampling, Inc has been leading the on-line product sampling industry since 1999 and our company continues its focused efforts exclusively in the product sampling market.   StartSampling’s public life began in September 1999. We’ve quietly built a business whose mission simple stated is: To Inspire Deeper Conections between People and Brands.

Today, we mail millions of samples monthly from our suburban Chicagoland facilities.  We work with nearly every major CPG firm, many major retailers and a host of agency partners.  As a very large mailer of product samples, we also partner with the US Postal Service® in many areas surrounding standards, consultation on the product sampling market, etc.  

Utilizing our long standing C.P.A. (Cost per Acquisition) based Media assets (i.e. Advertisers only pay for results) we routinely engage myriad audiences both off and online via our Media Partners and Retail Network which includes a  who’s who of Mass, Club, Drug, and Grocery retailers within our media network’s overall reach. (Exceeding 100 million uniques a month).   Our marketing research business is “the best kept secret” in the industry offering solutions for just about any question you can imagine.    

Most of all our unique culture ensures people really enjoy working with us.   We do work with many partners of all sizes and capabilites - so if you have an idea that invovles product sampling or think turn key prodcut sampling would be valued content for your business model please contact us  - we can absolutely help.