Wholesale News & Articles

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 - No-Pierce Body Jewelry
COASTAL DISTRIBUTORS introduces three new categories of its Wildwear brand, no-pierce body jewelry.

12/01/2008 - High-Flying Sales at HobbyTron.com
HobbyTron.com was founded more than eight years ago as a niche retail provider for enthusiasts of electronic kits.

12/01/2008 - Express Yourself with Emotibuds
EMOTIBLES.COM has added eight new DESIGNs to its original 16 Emotibuds, which are rubber charms DESIGNed to be attached to an iPod earphone.

10/01/2008 - Silver and CZ.com
This company carries more than 1,000 different DESIGNs of sterling silver jewelry set with CZs and other simulated gemstones.

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.

08/01/2008 - REAL Wholesale Deals from TrademarkCommerce.com
Many wholesale companies offer dropshipping and maintain a claim that they have millions of products. In reality, such a high and vague number of SKUs may really mean that the company is not a true wholesaler.

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 - Fighting Organized Retail Crime
As organized retail crime continues to plague the industry, retailers are getting more serious about uncovering, dismantling and prosecuting the responsible individuals and crime rings.

08/01/2008 - Belatriz
Belatriz DESIGNs and assembles a broad range of 18K gold layered and 925 sterling silver jewelry at its own plant in Brazil.

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.

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 - Laura's Country Candles Expands
Laura's Country Candles has expanded and moved in both a literal and virtual way. It has relocated to 1141 Lincoln Road in Allegan, MI, and it has also launched a new WEBsite at www.laurascountrycandles.com.

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 - CheapWholesaleJewelry.com Creating An Online Leader
Sometimes you just know early on in a venture how things will work out. From the start, they go very much for or against you.

04/01/2008 - Turning 10 Cents into $10 in Two Minutes at Tatstore.Com
Kirk Knapp owned and operated a Grand Rapids, MI area investment banking and brokerage business for years, before selling it in 1999.

02/01/2008 - Bolster Global eCommerce
Global eCommerce has incredible possibilities when it comes to sales. Buyers are able to find the best prices, and sellers can connect with the greatest number of customers.

01/01/2008 - Siezing an Opportunity: Kalan Aquires Funworks
There are times in business when you have to pounce on an opportunity. If not, you may never get the same kind of chance again.

12/01/2007 - Vision For Growth
GENCO Marketplace was a burgeoning company for 14 years, offering surplus inventories and liquidating millions of dollars worth of merchandise daily.

12/01/2007 - One Stop Shopping At Ohio Wholesale
The concept for Ohio Wholesale, Inc. began more than thirty years ago, when Nick and Terry Harbarger traveled to Mexico to purchase giftware items, which they sold in the US.

11/01/2007 - WEBsites to Get Facelifts
As today's shoppers become more discriminating about their interactions online, the stakes are being raised for retailers to provide a consistently positive, more sophisticated experience.

11/01/2007 - Revamped Travel Site Increases Conversions
With ecommerce easily being more than a decade old, one might think that the art of site DESIGN would be a little further along than it is.

11/01/2007 - Optimizing Product Pages For Sales
Usability research from Nielsen Norman Group (E-Commerce User Experience, pg. 26) suggests that there are two primary reasons why WEBsite visitors decide not to purchase from a WEBsite:

11/01/2007 - Lighter Leash Catches Fire
When John McCall discovered his wife was expecting their second child, he was a pick and pack fulfillment worker for Barproducts.com.

10/01/2007 - Strategies to Skyrocket WEB Sales
In the last issue of WEB Wholesaler, I explained how to overcome a high bounce rate of visitors arriving on your WEBsite, only to immediately leave without taking one step deeper into your site.

10/01/2007 - OfficeMax Aids Small Biz
VistaPrint Ltd., an online supplier of graphic DESIGN services and customized printed products for small businesses, is going into retail stores through an alliance with OfficeMax Inc.

10/01/2007 - Fun Friends
In 1998, Julian Parry, CEO and co-founder of Fun Friends, a company that manufactures novelty cell phone covers, was a man with a vision, but he did not know it.

10/01/2007 - Fashion Accessories: Never Out Of Season
The leading sales category for the past two holiday seasons has been Apparel & Clothing, which saw double digit growth, year over year.

09/01/2007 - WEB Profits: Proven How-To Strategies to Skyrocket WEB Sales
Last month I presented the importance of knowing your WEBsite performance numbers. Knowing these numbers enables you to decide where to focus your efforts, including time and money to increase your WEBsite sales.

09/01/2007 - Teamwork Drives UB2B's Success
One of the key components of Fatima Siner's game plan for business success includes the philosophy used by all winning football coaches: surround yourself with the best assistants and the most talented personnel.

09/01/2007 - Fab Footwear Online
Did you know that Zappos.com went from $8.5 million in revenue five years ago to $597 million in 2006?

08/01/2007 - SilverSource.com Grows Online
Some companies get things right the first time, whether they are marketing online or offline.

08/01/2007 - Fresh Toys & Novelties Push Retail Profits
The number of new toys and novelties that come to market each year is a tribute to the imagination of inventors, DESIGNers, and suppliers.

08/01/2007 - FashionPenny.com: A Family Tradition Of Success
If you were to make a map of Robert Vayner's personal journey to becoming a successful businessman, it would be dotted with precious minerals.

08/01/2007 - Choosing The Right Shopping Cart
Without a stable shopping cart that is easy for customers to navigate, etailers will find themselves at a distinct disadvantage

07/01/2007 - Small Retailers vs. Big Boxes
How do independent retailers compete with the, "big boxes?" Let us face it: It is hard to beat the economies of scale that the big boys enjoy in the retail market.

07/01/2007 - Surplus Success At Via Trading
Jacques Stambouli was brainstorming one day in the library, while working on his master's thesis. His professor had assigned him to come up with a business plan that pertained to retail or wholesale.

06/01/2007 - Sending Email Images
More and more WEB wholesalers and retailers are using photos in their email campaigns to show off their hottest product lines.

05/01/2007 - Sunglass Fashion Update
Summer fashion trends are often like the season itself. They come, go and come back again. Sometimes they look vastly different from the prior year; other times, the fashion is familiar to a time you almost forgot existed.

05/01/2007 - Smart Email Means Sales for Salco
Wholesaler, Salco Distributors, has been using consistent, content rich email campaigns to drum up sales and maintain relationships at www.ezdropshipper.com.

05/01/2007 - Quality & Service In the Bag At Handbag Express
Barry Herrington retired back in 1999 after three decades in the manufacturing and wholesaling industry, where he was a highly successful DESIGNer of underwater spa lighting systems and open heart surgical equipment.

04/01/2007 - Wholesale WEB Jewelry: Spring / Summer Forecast
If your customers include divas, and you are stocking merchandise in preparation for the material mavens' pre-summer shopping season, then take heed... bling is the thing for spring!

04/01/2007 - WEB Re-DESIGN For Success
Most experts advise WEB marketers to do a fairly complete overhaul of their site DESIGNs once every two or three years. Some say that you should reDESIGN every single year, in order to stay ahead or at least level with the competition.

03/01/2007 - Colors Turn Vibrant
Chili Pepper, a deep, vibrant red, comes to the forefront of color in products this year. For home fashion, newer, more vibrant colors join with earth tones, according to forecasts by two leading color consultants.

02/01/2007 - Google & Marketworks Offer WEB Solutions
Google and Marketworks have teamed up to create a variety of new eCommerce storefront templates that will make it easier for small businesses to have professional looking WEBsites with built-in Google Checkout.