Third installment on how to build a wholesale website: THE FOLLOWING PAGES YOU MAY OFFER IN THE GENERAL ACCESS AREA OF YOUR WHOLESALE WEB SITE, OR IN THE PASSWORD-PROTECTED AREA, AT YOUR DISCRETION 9. “HOW TO ORDER” PAGE. Offers an overview of the ordering process on the web site. Be as detailed as possible,...
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Building Wholesale Websites, Part Two
Last post, we talked about the different components needed for a wholesale website. This post will continue with points 4-8: 4. “HOW TO USE THIS SITE” PAGE. Newcomers will need a place where you explain how to access the site by registering, and using the password system. 5. BUYER REGISTRATION and PASSWORD REQUEST FORM....
Building Wholesale Websites, Part One
Although many independent retailers (your primary wholesale customers) are a bit behind the curve when it comes to technology – even for browsing online, putting up a website with online ordering capacity for wholesale offers many advantages: • Your complete product catalog is on-line, where you may easily send customers . • You spend...
How to Present Wholesale Information On-line
If your retail website is already up and running, there are three options for listing and/or referring buyers to your wholesale products: 1. HARD COPY WHOLESALE INFORMATION WITH WEB LINK: Add a link on your retail site, to where retailers may download a wholesale Registration Form to fill out and submit, so they qualify...
Wholesale vs. Retail Websites
More and more retailers prefer to shop and make wholesale purchases online. If you fail to address this opportunity, you are losing business … just like if you do not take credit cards. And increasingly, many stores feel slighted, or that you are not serious about wholesaling, if you don’t give them the same...
Using Squidoo to Market Your Products
Squidoo is the ‘brain-child’ of bestselling author, blogger and speaker, Seth Godin. Seth’s purpose in developing Squidoo “is to make it easy for people to create free pages (called “lenses”) on their interests, and to earn royalties for their good content.” Squidoo is a popular on-line publishing platform (and community) that makes it easy...
Are You Ready for a Productive New Year!
Boy, I can’t believe how fast time flies by when you are busy …. Immediately after I recovered from my cold/flu in early December, Malcolm, my husband, and I set up our holiday kiosk at the Palouse Mall in Moscow, Idaho and sold several thousand dollars of Idaho-made products (mostly gourmet foods). Despite the...
Social Networking, Part One
Social Networking is a rather new phenomenon in the internet world, but an excellent way to market your business. Having your products or websites “talked about” on a social networking site or group is taking ‘word of mouth’ advertising to a hundred-fold level! There are numerous networking sites, bookmarking sites, and group/membership sites that...
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