Fashion, Merchandise, Gift Trade Shows Make the Connections and Deliver the Ad Goods.

Targeted industry trade shows offer schmooze and contact mojo to promote your online business. Whether you supply off-price “designer” apparel, or you trend-surf the latest crafts and novelty items to stock your virtual pre-holiday shelves, or you need to source the best-priced licensed beachwear for kids, there is nothing like insider wholesale trade shows to meet your matches.

TopTenWholesale, and its community of auction and advertiser sites, staked out real-world presence at the ASAP Global Sourcing Show in Las Vegas earlier in February, where fashion industry manufacturers and distributors link up buyers and sellers. Think men’s, women’s, kids, off-price and global sourcing of major apparel and garment lines.

In early March, we’re off to Las Vegas again for ASD/AMD, the wholesale merchandise marketplace of nearly 4,000 companies, representing more than 150 leading merchandise categories. (If you happen to be cruising through the Sands Hotel between March 2 and 5, stop by the primo exhibit location, right inside the entrance, and say “hi” to TTW. See how TopTenWholesale promotes its network of wholesalers, resellers and merchandise advertisers to trade insiders.)

Attention Gift, Novelty, Craft Merchandisers:

The media-only Holiday Gift Guide Show offers face time with top product editors in May 2008 at the Marriott Marquis in NYC’s Times Square. This is tabletop show feeds press kits, show e-zines, gift guide media contact databases and product samples for electronics, housewares, interior design, crafting and gift merchandise into holiday gift guides at national magazines.

Products introduced at this trade show in May – from homemade organic decorations and hostess gifts to gift-giver shortcuts and entertainment décor – show up in trusted holiday guides at the end of the year in publications like “O At Home” (Oprah’s) Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Men’s Health, Playboy, Women’s Day, Real Simple, Body + Soul, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, Everyday with Rachel Ray, Elle, ESPN and others. See www.giftguideshow.com for details.

On a tight travel budget? If you can’t make the trade show exhibit rounds yourself, then leverage your wholesale/retail promotional budget with targeted advertising to buyers, sellers and auctioneers already in search mode. Contact an advertiser customer service rep like Jonathan@toptenwholesale.com. Let us schmooze on your behalf.