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INDEPENDENT RETAILER magazine is now the official news outlet for Wholesale Central visitors. Each monthly issue is packed with new product ideas, supplier profiles, retailing news, and business strategies to help you succeed.

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12/01/2008 - Combining Search for Higher Conversion
There are many ways to increase conversion of your paid search campaigns. On a general level, it starts with the keywords, moves to the ad title and copy, and on to the landing page (the page at which your traffic arrives).

12/01/2008 - Bio Bags Improve Environment and Increase Profits
Over recent years, the subject of, "Going Green," has been popping up everywhere. In the coming issues of Cover, our mission is to ease you into this natural product industry.

11/01/2008 - Shipping Promotions That Drive SALES
With the holidays quickly approaching, there is no better time to take a close look at the shipping offers you provide your customers.

11/01/2008 - Retailers See Strength Online
Online retailers reported profitability last year and believe online shopping will be more resilient than other channels in the months ahead, according to a newly released study by Forrester Research for Shop.org.

11/01/2008 - Ranking Buyer Satisfaction
Brick-and-mortar units outranked shopping websites when it comes to finding product information, according to the E-tailing Group's fourth annual crosschannel shopping study.

11/01/2008 - MBK Guarantees SALES
MONEy back guarantees are a rarity in the closeout wholeSALE liquidation business.

11/01/2008 - How to Build An Email List
Email building for a small business need not be especially time consuming or difficult. Here are some easy ways to build a list to increase traffic to a retail website and increase SALES.

11/01/2008 - Holiday Email Tips
Major online retailers began sending holiday emails on October 28th last year, 58 days before Christmas, according to a new report.

11/01/2008 - Designers Move from Class to Mass
Such high fashion designers as Vera Wang and Stella McCartney are among those shifting to lower priced lines, in order to gain wider recognition across a broader customer base.

11/01/2008 - Conklin Earring Bonanza
CONKLIN FASHIONS has acquired more than 1,000 styles of earrings.

11/01/2008 - Challenging Holiday Season
Forecasters see gains in retail SALES over the holidays, but the gains are expected to be less than in years past.

11/01/2008 - Assessing a Store Location
Location is of critical importance to a retailer. Deciding where to place a new store or move a current ONE requires a lot of study and thought.

11/01/2008 - Aiming for Super Rich
Few could argue that it's good to be rich. A look at luxury retail SALES suggests that for retailers, the best target is the really, really rich.

11/01/2008 - 99¢ Only Stores Raise Prices
For the first time since its inception 26 years ago, 99¢ Only Stores is raising its top price to 99.99 cents, an increase of just under a penny. This keeps the chain of 277 stores in four states within the dollar store realm.

10/01/2008 - Using Live Chat to Boost SALES
It has been reported for some time now that adding an attended Live Chat strategy to a website can help increase SALES.

10/01/2008 - Personalization Moves To Video
Personalization is a hot trend in all of retailing, and particularly successful in cart and kiosk programs. Consumers like to have things that are made just for them.

10/01/2008 - Kole Boosts Closeouts
Kole Imports, a large and long time wholeSALE supplier of a comprehensive array of general merchandise at significantly low prices.

10/01/2008 - Email Marketing Minefields
There is no marketing medium that has better ROI potential than email. Utilizing email marketing requires diligence, however, because there are a handful of minefields ONE may encounter.

10/01/2008 - Custom Marketing From Buy Wise
BUY WISE has introduced a custom, personalized Relationship Marketing software program for everyONE, including retailers, that enables them to stay in touch with customers, friends, and prospects frequently, easily, and personally.

09/01/2008 - Social Networks Build Brand Awareness
Increasing buyers' awareness of your company and products is just ONE element of running a successful online business.

09/01/2008 - Snare Holiday Shoppers
Three sure fire tactics for engaging holiday shoppers online are: 1) an ever changing list of top gift items, 2) gift finders and 3) limited time SALE offers. So say several online retail experts.

09/01/2008 - Luxury Retail Update
In defiance of the lyrics of an old song that says, "The rich get rich and the poor get poorer," luxury retailers and their landlords report that the rich are stepping back from shopping at luxury stores right now.

09/01/2008 - Ebay to Emphasize Fixed-Price SALES Format
Acknowledging that most online shoppers cannot be bothered with auctions, eBay plans Wednesday to announce changes to its fee structure that emphasize fixed prices over bidding.

09/01/2008 - Early Holiday Web Marketing
While most consumers don't start holiday shopping in earnest until the day after Thanksgiving, online retailers should begin marketing for the season as early as October, according to MarketLive Inc., an eCommerce platform provider.

09/01/2008 - Back to School Trends
ONE fifth of parents nationwide have set aside a portion of their stimulus check for back to school purchases

08/01/2008 - Infotech America Offers Web Promo Services
In the past five years, consumers have changed the way they find products and services via the Internet.

08/01/2008 - Great Selection at Blanket Depot
George Merling, President of Blanket Depot, could be called a "Blanket Barron." Though it is only a five-year-old company, Blanket Depot has close to 2,500 blanket designs on their website.

08/01/2008 - Gaining Customer Confidence For More SALES
The Internet can provide store owners with a wider channel of distribution for their products.

08/01/2008 - Fees Squelch Web SALES
ONE reason why online shoppers abandon shopping carts is the shipping fee, according to a recent survey by comScore Inc., conducted by PayPal.

08/01/2008 - Easy DVD Profits
Those who equate low priced DVDs with poor quality have never purchased from SuperDVDMart.com, a company which manufactures about 100,000 DVDs on-site every day using professional, digitized, high-definition printing.

08/01/2008 - Checkout Options
Some retailers and wholeSALErs are still using their websites as more of an online catalog than an ecommerce engine and it is a shame to see them leaving so much mONEy on the table.

08/01/2008 - Broadband Ramps Up
Two separate studies show that broadband is having an increasingly positive impact on Internet SALES.

08/01/2008 - BabyEarth Unveils Demo On Demand
BabyEarth, the eco friendly baby goods retailer based in Austin, TX, has launched BabyEarthLIVE, which utilizes webcam technology to give online shoppers an in-store experience. The interactive service is free.

07/01/2008 - Windfall Of Success For Iron Stop
The process today of manufacturing wind spinners is not much different than it was when Ron Spinks, President of Iron Stop, came up with the idea and began creating them in his garage.

07/01/2008 - Win with Liquidation.com
You might think that a website like Liquidation.com would balk at the suggestion that it is, "the eBay for wholeSALE liquidations."

07/01/2008 - Vendors Profit From Quigley MD
In setting up a kiosk or cart program, it pays to get advice from experts.

07/01/2008 - Nostalgia Reigns At Desperate Enterprises
In his book, "Walden," Henry David Thoreau asked, "Why should we be in such a desperate haste to succeed in such desperate enterprises?

07/01/2008 - Nordstrom Adds Store Pick-Up
By September, Nordstrom Inc. expects to enable shoppers at its website to pick up product at the nearest store.

07/01/2008 - Customer Surveys Reveal Site Weaknesses
In its simplest form, a dam is a structural system that controls the flow of water. It can stop the flow completely, or it can be opened up to allow water to flow through in a controlled manner.

07/01/2008 - Coping With Site Objectives
Search engine optimization sometimes conflicts with other design goals, according to the Rimm-Kaufman Group, a search marketing and consulting firm.

07/01/2008 - Buyers Network Speeds Transactions
In addition to all its free and convenient features, WholeSALECentral.com also allows users to utilize a free Buyers Network.

07/01/2008 - 12 Tips For Savvy Retailers
As gas prices continue to climb and people adjust their spending habits, SALES of Spam are up and McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts are luring Starbucks' latte lovers.

06/01/2008 - WholeSALErs Ease Web Buying
Retailers and other buyers who go online to research and obtain products are finding it easier to navigate wholeSALErs' websites.

06/01/2008 - Tips for Designing Websites
Have you ever stepped back, looked at your website, scratched your head and wondered, "I think my site looks good, so why is it not generating SALES?"

06/01/2008 - Strapless Sun Visor
VIZINI INC. has invented and is the exclusive supplier of Vizini, a sun visor that attaches to sunglasses, safely and effectively shading eyes from the sun without creating a hat line on your hair or giving the wearer a headache.

05/01/2008 - The Joy of Accessories
In 1973, Debbie Tierney was selling jewelry and accessories to her hairdresser for extra mONEy, while her husband was at work. She envisiONEd growth, but nothing more than simply selling to a few more hairdressers and some local shops.

05/01/2008 - Service Tracks New Movers
Melissa Data Corp. has implemented a new online database of new movers.

05/01/2008 - Monster Spray
MONSTER SPRAY LLC introduces Monster Spray, a product the company's founders invented to allay the fears of their five year old daughter.

05/01/2008 - Keys To Retail Success
Searching for a hot new retail concept? Looking to add a profitable new product to your kiosk or store?

05/01/2008 - Jewelry Honors Heroes
NINA CUSAMELLI LLC has introduced the Heroes Cross collection of sterling silver necklaces and pins that depict heroes, which on most of the designs, emanate from a central circle to form a cross.