Earn a little extra with top-selling items this Valentine’s Day

Valentine's day candy

Valentine’s Day may be a day to celebrate love but many savvy vendors have turned it into an opportunity to earn extra income. You too can make the most of this day because before, during and sometimes even after is the time when the warm-hearted souls are keen on shedding the shillings. Given as follows [...]

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B2B Trade, Products, Suppliers

Posted on February 13th, 2013 Written by Tania

The secret to getting high sales in off-season

minimize sales force turnover

Isn’t it too sad that the high sale seasons do not last forever? It is one thing for the high sales season to end and another for a lower sales season to start. Low sales seasons are probably the least favourite seasons for vendors where buyers are few and sales are even fewer. The following [...]

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B2B Trade, Products, Suppliers

Posted on January 31st, 2013 Written by Tania

Offer your customers a discount this Christmas

christmas discount

Discount is a beautiful word that has nothing less than a magical effect on people. In fact, it won’t be wrong to say that a discount has what it takes to encourage and convince people to buy something they don’t even immediately need. A discount is why people feel ‘the need’ to buy, say twelve [...]

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B2B Trade, Products, Suppliers

Posted on December 20th, 2012 Written by Tania

Some of the reasons why you lose customers

losing customers

The focus of almost all businesses is to make as many sales as possible and to as many people as they can find. When the focus is to make more customers, it’s easy to overlook the importance of making repeated sales. A returning customer is more precious than anything else and if your returning customers [...]

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B2B Trade, E-Commerce, Suppliers

Posted on November 29th, 2012 Written by Tania

Wholesalers are much more than mere middle men

missing link

For most people, wholesalers are merely an intermediary who buys in bulk, breaks the bulk parcel into relatively smaller assortments and sells them to retailers, and that’s about it. So far so good, but wholesalers also keep a big part of profit margin and that’s the reason why many people think that wholesalers are an [...]

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Products, Wholesale Trade

Posted on October 31st, 2012 Written by Tania

Booth babes vs robo staff – Picking the best staff for your booth

Trade show image

A lot goes into the planning of a trade show which is why, there are hardly many shows taking place during a year. For many small businesses, attending trade shows is vital as it makes the primary source of business for them. Even for these small businesses, preparing to attend a trade show is nothing [...]

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B2B Trade, Suppliers, Wholesale Trade

Posted on September 4th, 2012 Written by Tania

Why should you join a wholesale directory?

but why

To join or not to join a wholesale directory is the question many newbie vendors are faced with while starting a business of their own especially since there are loads of free directories out there which offer information on wholesale suppliers, their products and other businesses operating in the market. That one thing that not [...]

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E-Commerce, Suppliers, Wholesale Trade

Posted on July 30th, 2012 Written by Tania

Cost effective marketing: How to spend less and make more

global marketing

Looking for cost effective ways to market both your business and products is increasingly becoming a challenge for small businesses. While the modern business world has become incredibly competitive, small businesses are forced to lean on sound and carefully drafted marketing strategies to ensure their survival, making it an absolute essential. There is no real [...]

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E-Commerce, Products

Posted on July 13th, 2012 Written by Tania

Essentials to establish online credibility as a seller

building trust

Online world is plagued by scam so people try and be as careful as they can while buying things on internet. Shady sellers with shoddy websites are especially kept at an arm’s length by buyers who almost never want take out their credit cards and buy from virtual shop fronts that have ‘fraud’ written all [...]

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Products, Suppliers, Wholesale Trade

Posted on June 22nd, 2012 Written by Tania

How to verify the authenticity of a Chinese supplier

authenticity check

There have been heated debates in the past about the quality of products manufactured in China. However, the affordability of these items and consistent dependence of manufacturers on Chinese manpower, for keeping the manufacturing cost under control, has sufficiently increased the product quality of goods manufactured in China. Many known companies have their production units [...]

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B2B Trade, Products, Suppliers

Posted on June 18th, 2012 Written by Tania