2008 October

Are you the wholesale seller or retail buyer who ordered this Holiday Gift Marketing Tips Kit? Please sign here for tips to: Optimize Your eCommerce Store, Increase Sales During Holidays 2008, Source and Stock Hot Gifts That Actually Sell This Year.And, you over there? Take that economic gloom-and-doom paper bag off your head. Scan these tips to boost holiday sales … from wholesale supplier to retail seller; from online e-commerce …

It was a Really Big Deal for the first wholesale buyers and sellers to meet on the Internet. They said it was only profitable for the biggest wholesalers and manufacturers: The first 800-pound gorillas of the business-to-business E-commerce World arrived on the same day last November, when, hours apart, General Motors and Ford Motor Company announced they were establishing Internet Trading exchanges for their supply chains. That was just the …

A SizeUSA Survey of 240 body measurements of 10,000 people in 13 cities across the United States recently came across some new math. SizeUSA results appeared in The New York Times, including the finding that the “average” American woman’s size is now 14, the former size cutoff for what was called Plus-Sized Clothing after World War II, when this type of body survey was last done. Size creep also hit men: …

Here at Top Ten Wholesale , we talk mostly vertical: To Wholesalers, Manufacturers, Distributors, Importers, Auctioneers, Liquidators and Retailers in the apparel, footwear, accessories and general merchandise marketplace. But we stay tuned to what the broadly consumer-focused search engines like GYM (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) do as they compete for bigger slices of search marketing pie.   Back in June (From the Search Advertising Trenches: Can Microsoft Kick Google in the …

If change is the only constant, then the pioneer of the auction marketplace, eBay, has seen a lot of constants this year. First, was a change in top leadership, the first CEO flip in ten years. Second, came changes to listing fees and commissions that favor Power-Sellers (larger big-volume online dealers) but squeeze out smaller, mom-and-pop entrepreneurs … the customer base on which eBay built its empire. Lately, there are …

By creating trade and product sourcing opportunities for value-priced merchandise, the people behind Value Price Expo trade shows know they cannot simply walk “inside the lines.” The place and the timing have to work for both value-seeking buyers and right-priced exhibitors. The products have to run both hot (popular Housewares, Consumer Electronics, Toys, Health & Beauty, Gifts, Sporting Goods) and broad across 30 different categories.  Quality, value-priced products that move …

MSNBC runs a Small Business information-sharing site, a “Your Business” show, and a weekly Top Five list on topics of entrepreneurial interest. Topics run from “Cost-effective Market Research” and “Green Office Tools” to “Travel Gadgets” and “Saving Money on Airfare.”On September 7, MSNBC’s Business > Small Business > Your Business site listed Top Five Alternative Search Engines  as named by Entrepreneur: Alternative search engines 1. Toptenwholesale.com (You Are Here in …