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Struggling to Find and Manage Products You Want to Sell?

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Are you wanting to sell products online to make extra income?  Are you struggling to find wholesalers who will sell to an online store?  When you find a wholesaler and the products you want to sell, are you struggling to organize the information and get back to it quickly when you need it?  What can you do to drastically reduce the time it takes to assemble product information and then make sense of it?

To sell products successfully online, you need some critical information for each product:
1. Market and product research information
2. Current Demand
3. Current Supply
4. Current competition
5. Competitive pricing in eBay Auctions
6. Competitive pricing in major Retail (Amazon)

Once you secure the information for EACH product you want to sell, you need to sort it and track it different ways. It’s a major task to try to set this up on Excel Worksheets. That’s why the team at www.worldwidebrands.com has developed a unique Product Sourcing Tool designed to meet the needs of active online retailers. 

Research

Using a keyword, the Research Tool provides a complete Demand/Supply/Competion Picture for you in one place using simple organized tabs.  For each keyword you use to search, the tool identifies the other keywords used by browsers to find such a product.  This way you can perform multiple product searches to help identify the niche you can possibly sell into.  Your searches can be saved for later to help with trending.  There is no risk of errors trying to cut and paste or re-key information into an Excel Worksheet.

Suppliers

For each keyword search, The Product Sourcing Tool identifies qualified wholesale suppliers willing to work with online retailers and supply wholesale products to sell via Amazon, eBay, Yahoo! Stores or customized websites.  It identifies the wholesale supplier that offer products for dropshipping, light bulk, large volume & liquidation.separately.  Searches can be saved by Supplier.  Suppliers can be located by city, state or country in the tool as well, so if you want to locate a supplier in your region, you can easily locate them.   You can save your Preferred Suppliers separately - Add To My Suppliers.  You can also list suppliers that you cannot review when you see them but want to come back to them - Preferred Supplier.  It’s a fast way of finding retail wholesale relationships and identifying drop ship products.  http://www.worldwidebrands.com/pop_taketour.asp

Saving You Time

Time wasting for new online retailers includes:

  • Keying and emailing your company information to multiple wholesalers to request the opening of an account with those wholesalers.   The My Account section of the tool allows you to update the information once and then send an accurate, up-to-date information sheet to as many wholesalers as you need.
  • Looking for specific products you don’t find listed.  With WorldwideBrands.com, you don’t have to do the work.  Just contact info@worldwidebrands.com, tell us what product/s you need to find and we will do the research work for you and find the right wholesale supplier for you.
  • Identifying what’s new.  You can select Show Only Last 30 Added from the Tools’ Dashboard and bingo, all the latest stuff is there for your review.
  • Wasting time researching products that eventually you determine you cannot sell on eBay or Amazon anyway.  The Tool clearly identifies these in the search result before you spend any time contacting the wholesale supplier.

 

Time is of the essence when you start to develop your own online retail business.  As Product Sourcing is an ongoing requirement to keep your business fresh and alive, and growing, it’s important that you have an organized and swift method of getting product information and being able to recall quickly it any time you need it.

Visit the WorldwideBrands.com Testimonials section to hear how many others have saved time finding and managing the products they want to sell. 

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When to add new products and find a wholesale supplier

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Colette Marshall was just interviewed on eBay Radio by Griff.  He asked several great questions about refreshing your product lines and introducing new products to sell.  The main question is how do you approach coming up with those new product line ideas and finding the supplier for it , especiallly before the holiday selling season?

Here’s what Colette Marshall responded:

1) At what point should an online retailer start thinking about refreshing their product lines and introduce new products?

The answer is all the time.  As an ecommerce retailer, we’re always looking to provide our customers with what they’re looking for. You should be constantly looking at trends and trying new product ideas.  It’s best to do it before the Holiday season so that you know what are going to be some best sellers in the holiday season. Also in the holiday season,you’re going to get very busy so it’ll be a little more difficult to add on new product items. It’s best to introduce new products consistently throughout the year.

For those of you who are just beginning, when you’re doing your product sourcing find a supplier with a wide variety of complimentary skus.  When you’re ready to start adding products to your eBay store, auctions, Amazon, or Yahoo! Store, then you’ll already be set up with a supplier you can work with. This is the fastest way.

If you already have a supplier, but their selection is not big enough or you’re not finding what you’re looking for then the same idea still applies. Try to find a supplier that has a wide range of skus to select from.

Now sometimes you’ll be focused in a micro niche where your product is very specific.  Usually in this case you’re going to be dealing directly with the manufacturer. There may not be a wider selection to choose from. There is no problem with this. You will just need to manager yourself so that you can deal with multiple dropshippers and wholesale suppliers.

2) Do you have any tips for sellers to help them identify what to add to their eBay store or add to their listing options?

The easiest place to start first is your eBay Store or your current Auctions.  Ask yourself:  what will compliment this product?  For example, if you sell a themed dog bowl is there a matching cat bowl.  If you sell a coffee maker, are you selling coffee mugs.  If you sell furniture, are you selling the products to keep that furniture clean or in its best condition.

From a product point of view, you can look at your current suppliers catalog or inventory and see what they provide that will compliment what you’re selling.   What you want to try to avoid is selling motor cleaning supplies next to kitchen appliances.  Focus on adding products that are within the same niche.

A great tip for the holidays is to see if you can make anything into a bundle. For example, the furniture you are selling - can you include the 1st months’ cleaning supplies?  Can you make a pet gift basket of a collar, bowls, a leash and a pet toy.

Most importantly keep an eye on trending. Now that’s a whole seperate conversation, but basically you want to keep an eye on what are people talking about in your niche. You want to be ahead of the game so that you’re one of the top sellers in the forefront when customers come looking for those product.

3) Is there a place to find out more information?

WorldwideBrands.com is currently running a free webinar series at www.Sourcingforindependence.com. We’ve got a great webinar coming up with Lisa Suttora about how to understand product trends and what’s different this year with sourcing for the holidays.  It’s free to register - just go to www.Sourcingforindependence.com and sign up there.

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New Featured Suppliers in New Member Center - Launched Today

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Your new Member Center is HERE!
You asked, and we listened. 

Our Members requested:

*A faster way to find suppliers inside the Product Sourcing Tool - DONE!
*A quick search tool directly from the Member Center- DONE!
*A way to update your contact info from inside the Member Center- DONE!
*A list of featured suppliers- DONE!
*The return of 6 months free on Yahoo- DONE!

Worldwide Brands launches new featured wholesale supplier section with new Member Center

Worldwide Brands launches new featured wholesale supplier section with new Member Center

Log In to see your new, upgraded Member Center!
Don’t worry - all your data and saved history are still there ;0) 

Now WE have a favor to ask YOU:
With the slow economy, we’re hearing more and more  stories of people trying to start an online business and getting SCAMMED!

Please, SPEAK UP and let people know about Worldwide Brands through online forums, Twitter, YouTube, FaceBook and more. 

Help your friends get started online the right way by passing along our Free Resources:
* ‘Beat the Recession with eCommerce’ series
* ‘Starting Your Internet Business Right’ eBook

Remember: when you talk - Worldwide Brands listens!  So make sure you share your feedback on the blog.

Here’s to your online success!

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iPod Shuffles - Wholesale Product Buying Opportunity

Monday, January 12th, 2009

The very beginning of the year is a great time to find incredible product buying opportunites.  One of Worldwide Brands approved wholesalers is offering Worldwide Brands members an exclusive offer on iPod Shuffles.  If you’re a Worldwide Brands customers, login to your account and learn the details.  This offer is only available til the end of January or while supplies last and they’re already going fast!

1 GB and 2 GB iPod Shuffles wholesale

iPod Shuffles wholesale

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