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	<description>Tips on Marketing Your Products from an Independent Gift Sales Representative!</description>
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		<title>Tips for Making your Products Appealing to Gift Buyers</title>
		<link>http://sellingtogiftshops.com/2009/07/15/tips-to-making-your-products-appealing-to-gift-buyers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gift Rep Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having appealing products to present to gift store buyers is, of course, a very important detail to consider when developing or expanding your products.  All the work and effort in the world will gain nothing if your product is not what the buyer wants. Trying to sell your gift item to other venues such as the &#8216;big box&#8217; stores is an option many new producers want to pursue.  &#8216;Big box&#8217; store product packaging restrictions may not be as strict as gift stores and these stores buy in much bigger volume thus making the producer/crafter more money!  Not as easy as it sounds &#8212; I have heard horror stories from crafters and producers about trying this route with their new product(s) (a long story … maybe I&#8217;ll talk about this in another post sometime!). So why sell to gift shops?  What IS the advantage?  Well, quickly, here are a few reasons for placing your products in gift shops first: Gift shops are looking for new or non-commercial products Gift shop buyers, managers or owners are often on-site and can work with you more easily Gift shops, historically, don’t require as much &#8216;red tape&#8217; to bring in a new line Gift shops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find Gift Stores</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gift Rep Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader emailed me a few weeks back asking how to find stores to buy their line of greetings cards. After replying to his email, I realized there are probably more producers out there asking the same thing. So, here are some of the tips I emailed my reader. There are a couple different ways to locate possible gift retail outlets that will be interested in your line of products, but they require some &#8216;leg work&#8217;.  When I first started my sales rep business, I found the best way to find gift stores is to actually walk the downtown or the ‘historical’ section of town to see what stores I could find.  Of course this works if you are already in a particular town, but not very effective if you are not on the road. Looking in the yellow pages of the phone book under Gift Stores should give you a good list of shops that would be worth talking with.  Often times, if you talk to one store that is not interested in your products, they will be able to give you the name of a store that is interested. The local Chamber of Commerce office can be a great [...]]]></description>
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