Category: Business Best Practices

10 Ways Small Businesses Can Prepare for Black Friday Success
The good news is there’s still enough time for your small business to prepare well, stand out and sell in time for this fast and furious weekend of sales.

5 Reasons Why a Buyer Says Yes to One Product Over Another
If their customers are asking for a certain product, a buyer will do what it takes to add it to their product assortment because they know their customers will buy.

Putting the Social in Media
Social media is a relatively even playing field. It’s changed the way companies do business, how they develop products, how they promote products, how they engage and communicate with their customers.

9 Ways to Sell More This Halloween
Marking the beginning of the most profitable period of the year, Halloween spending is expected to reach a whopping $8.4 billion in 2016, the highest level in 11 years.

Category Reviews—To Know Them is to Use Them
For retailers, conducting category reviews is an essential part of doing successful business.

Getting Discovered: Learn From a Perfect Real-life Product Profile
If your profile has an attractive image, and is a high percentage match, a buyer can click on your product to get to the meat of your posting.

Demystifying Product Standards: How These Can Impact Your Business
In order to sell products that meet the changing attitudes of their customers, retailers are taking a firm stance on the type and quality of products they sell in their stores. And that translates into their product standards.

Trading Up: Making the Most of Your Trade Show Experience
There’s more room for the smaller suppliers to strut their stuff. There’s more time for buyers and other interested parties to talk with those manufacturers, and make connections.

More than Just Miles: Setting the Pace for Exponential Growth
I have to pinch myself that the team of incredibly talented individuals to fill the office space is a reality, not a dream.

Getting Discovered: 5 Qualities of a Great Product Profile
Product information comes in numerous shapes and sizes--your website, your pricing sheet, your sales deck…all of these sources house information you want to get in the hands of retail buyers.