You’ve spent a lot of time tweaking your site, getting everything streamlined, polished, and efficient. You’ve designed everything from the ground up, and it’s been a gradual but steady climb to the top, as you developed strategies that seem to keep winning customers over and moving that merchandise at a steady clip. Just like Toptenwholesale.com and its network of sites (manufacturer.com, wholesaleu.com, offpricenetwork.com), you’re all about general merchandise, apparel, accessories, gifts, electronics, handbags, jewelry, toys, and more… but you’re still stuck when it comes to figuring out what kind of people are really looking at your site, and even more perplexed by the thought of developing marketing that caters to a specific group, by using some web-based metrics. After all, how much information could there be out there to help you out with this stuff?

Finding and sourcing qualified sellers and buyers can be the biggest – and initially the most prohibitive – obstacle for first-timers who want to break into the wholesale and retail game. It helps to remember that Toptenwholesale.com and Manufacturer.com are the leading wholesale directories and search engines connecting thousands of buyers and sellers daily. These B2B directories and platforms were designed to connect buyers  directly with domestic and international wholesalers and manufactures. There are over 100 different product categories to search from including: general merchandise, apparel, accessories, gifts, electronics, handbags, jewelry, toys, and more. Toptenwholesale.com and its network of sites (manufacturer.com, wholesaleu.com, offpricenetwork.com) can get you started down the path quickly and efficiently, because aside from technical issues that require specialized knowledge, and other major points that should be handled rather carefully (like taxes and import / export regulations), there is clearly one important thing that must be addressed, in order to really get going with those goals of making an online business or small store a reality:

As you can see, the Halloween buzz is in the air, and we at TopTen are anticipating this year’s turnout to be a great one for the wholesale and retail channels who prepare themselves for the unique market demand and conditions of these challenging times. Of course, the possibilities are not just limited to Halloween, but the following holiday events as well. Preparation is everything this time around as we draw ever closer to the end of 2009, and there are some great ways you can boost your holiday revenue — without breaking the bank — and by adding value to the message that you are broadcasting to your customers!

Take a look at the solutions on offer to the wholesaler and retailer as sales are slumping in some areas, and booming in others! Make the changes to your selling strategy before it becomes a problem… and capitalize upon the proactive approach to delivering the news about your products and services to customers, before you need to tell them as a last-minute reminder… or worse, a pleading call to shop with you…

Calgary, Canada — Sept. 11, 2009

Since being released in July of this year, the new Shopster Merchant Network is experiencing exponential growth, in terms of increasing numbers of online wholesale and retail sellers joining its ranks. In the first two months since its inception, the new Shopster Merchant Network has attracted over 8,000 registered users, and current estimates predict that it will host over 20,000 merchants by the end of the year!

The Shopster Merchant Network is only a part of the entire Shopster platform (which is free to join) and  it enables entrepreneurs to make money online. Shopster members sell products from other merchants or list their own products to be sold by Network merchants. It’s worth noting that Shopster is the first e-Commerce solution to come with a built-in sales force for its customers’ products, along with instant inventory for businesses to sell.

Business Week, with market researcher YouNoodle, announced 50 best tech start-up companies in June, 50 new companies driven by entrepreneurs with venture capital that promise to:

· Speed up how industries crunch massive amounts of data for market research, advertising and new product development (Cloudera cloud computing);

· Make e-books and documents available quickly to all (Scribd);

· Change our transportation world (Project Better Place’s build out of electric car charging stations worldwide, now receiving tax incentives in Israel, Denmark and Hawaii USA);

· Clean Tech ventures that cultivate alternative energy sources (Bloom Energy’s fuel cells) or that slash energy used by buildings, businesses and computer networks. These new niche companies gained 54% more in venture capital investments in 2008 … and benefit now from government stimulus money earmarked for Energy Efficiency;

· Saving the best for last – a number of start-up tech tools that help companies:

Retailers and Resellers … Online Auction Sellers … Trade Show Exhibitors … Internet Merchandise Marketers … Flea Marketers: How Do You Close the Deal?