If you have been following my posts here on the WholesaleU Blog and ToptTenWholesale you probably know by now that buying wholesale liquidation merchandise in the form of pallets and truckloads can be very profitable for your retail or auction business.  Buying liquidation merchandise is a great way to source top name brands from some [...]

TopTenWholesale Guide to Dropshipping

By Claudia Bruemmer

If you are one of the many wholesalers and retailers that do not have facilities to stock products in bulk, this info is for you. Even if you don’t have back office operations due to the expense of facilities and personnel, you can still have a thriving business by shipping [...]

Local Search Engine Tells Users Where to Buy
The caption read “New Search Engine Provides Actionable Local Search.” In case you’re wondering, this is a solution for referring consumers to local stores for buying high-end consumer products searched for on search engines. Sounds like just another search engines. However, it’s unique in that it offers more [...]

Retailers Can Benefit From Behavioral Targeting
By Claudia Bruemmer
Behavioral targeting (BT) can be rewarding for retailers. However you have to know how to measure and track the relevant variables to get the best results.
The Lure of BT
As a retailer, you probably use direct response and various types of promotions as a major part of your [...]

On Tuesday January 10th Apple made its much anticipated move into the mobile phone business, unveiling a new device that’s controlled by touch, plays music, surfs the Internet and runs the Macintosh OS operating system. To stress the company’s move into consumer electronics Steve Jobs then renamed the company to “Apple Inc.” Dropping the word [...]

Let’s face it, when I query the term “wholesale” on Google and find 232,000,000 matching results, I almost cringe at attempting to locate a result that would possess any relevancy to what I am looking for. The Tier 1’s ( yahoo, google, msn) are getting too big, to fast. Google has over 100,000 advertisers. Now, [...]

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 [...]