If you’re searching for trendy niche market merchandise to sell this summer and fall, then look backward, savvy sellers. Look back to a Nostalgia and Vintage Fashion Trend in clothing, jewelry, hats and accessories: Summer of Love Update 2009.
Would apparel and accessories buyers for Macy’s worldwide lead you astray?

Note, please, the knit caps … gauzy [...]

Keywords rule in successful search marketing, at every level, from manufacturer and wholesaler to retailer and customer. Keyword enrichment of ad copy, web landing pages, search directory listings and search marketing also filters out top-ranking product sellers from bottom-feeding losses.
Of Spider Bots and Buyers
Online marketing trend trackers and analysts reach the same conclusions: Marketing [...]

Many of the intended readers of this blog may currently be participating in the ASD/AMD Show in Las Vegas this week (3/15-18).  I wish all of you the greatest success at an event that continues to be critical to general merchandisers in the US and beyond. For those of you interested in developing new business, [...]

Whenever you go into a supermarket or drug store and begin looking over that tub full of DVD’s on sale, you can see that these are generally movie titles that had already done the circuit of theaters, followed by becoming the video rental titles from stores and online. What you may not know is [...]

So, a few months ago, I promised Shawn Saba from US Style, Inc. that we would consider letting him write a guest post here and sharing his knowledge with all our readers. I never got around to posting it and he called me today saying I’d better put this up before he and Sam [...]

Fashion industry trade shows are the best destinations for buyers and retailers to source apparel and accessories in all categories and price ranges, with total immersion in upcoming trends and one-on-one access to the broadest reach of media, advertisers and online marketers in the trade.
Entering the final stretch of holiday gift sales — transacted [...]

Business and professional users searching for work-related information on the web are not finding needed data through general search engines like Google and Yahoo. A 2006 study by Outsell reported a search failure rate of 31.9 percent among business users when searching from major search engines. With one-third of the B2B and professional business queries [...]

Online shopping totaled $30.1 billion during the 2005 holiday season. That’s a 30% increase from 2004. Manufacturers, Distributors, and Wholesalers must love to hear that news. All these ebay powersellers and jobbers are taking advantage of the emerging ease wholesale companies have made to be found online. Consumers trust of on time delivery is growing [...]

In the last several weeks my columns have largely dealt with informing online and traditional retail store owners about wholesale suppliers that who have reputations for honesty, dependable delivery, and value. In order to save buyers from having to sort through them I thought I would provide a quick list of some of the excellent [...]

According to the Holiday eSpending Report from Goldman Sachs, Nielsen/NetRatings, and Harris Interactive, last years reports show that online shoppers spent $18.6 billion in the first six weeks of the holiday season (Oct.29-Dec.9). That is an increase of 16 percent from 2004. With more buyers shopping online in 2006, those numbers are expected to increase [...]