Retailers Forum Magazine April 2019

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REMY WAREHOUSE . . . . . . . . . 60

FORUM AD RATES . . . . . . . . . . 09

SMARTEST BARGAIN . . . . . . . 85 SWEET WHOLESALERS . . . . . . 33

APPAREL

TOP TEN WHOLESALE . . . . . . . 90

1 STOP WHOLESALE . . . . . 50/51 BLANK TEES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

BOOKS

BOUTIQUE CLOSEOUTS . . . . . 47

AUCTION BOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

CLOTHINGWARE . . . . . . . . . . . 25

BUYERS CONTACTS . . . . . . . . . 90

DD BULK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

CLOSEOUT DIRECTORY . . . . . 87

FASHIONABLE SALES . . . . . . . 45

HIDDEN WEALTH . . . . . . . . . . . 88

FLIRTY WHOLESALE . . . . . . . . 56

TRADE BOOKS . . . . . . . . . 94-100

KARMA CIRCLE . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

WHOLESALE SOURCES . . . . . . 91

SCARF WAREHOUSE . . . . . . . . 57 SELINI NY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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SWEET WHOLESALERS . . . . . . 33

STYLISH PLUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 T SHIRT REP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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CELLCITY.BIZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

UNIVERSE WHOLESALE . . . . . 69

WHOLE-CELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03

USACOSTUMERS.COM . . . . . . 42

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AUCTION FINDER . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BARGAIN OUTLET . . . . . . . . . . 18

CONSUMER ELECT.

BEAN WHOLESALERS . . . . . . . 24

FIND IT CHINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

DOBA DROPSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . 53 EVERYTHING CLOSEOUTS . . . 32

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EZ DROPSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

PROCESSING

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EXP MERCHANT . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

MEGA UBID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

NOAMB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

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E-STORE BUILDERS . . . . . . . . . 64 E STORE SIGNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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FOOTWEAR $21.00 dz 79$36.00 SOUTH CHINA . . . . . . . . . . . 15 ut 72 pcs

FUNDING OFFICES . . . . . . . . . . 28

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BAG CLOSEOUTS . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Belt Buckles

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12” Metal Signs $5.00 Each

FORUM WORKSHOP . . . . . . . . 35 $15.00 dz

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ACCESSORIES BLING WHOLESALER . . . . . . . 65

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VIDEOS & DVD’S DVD BUNDLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

WATCHES & CLOCKS

VACATION PROMOS . . . . . . . . 77 BUND JEWELRY . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

TIME WHOLESALERS . . . . . . . 27

WHOLESALESOURCES.COM 101 CLOSEOUTS FOR SALE . . . . . . 71 HIPWHOLESALE . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

WATCH DEALERS . . . . . . . . . . . 20

JEWELRY MINERS . . . . . . . . . . 41

DOBADROPSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . 57 KAASH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 EZ DROPSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 SHAKE WHOLESALE . . . . . . . . 20

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JEWEL CLEARANCE . . . . . . . . . 24

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PROMOTIONAL REWARDS . . 36 RUSH SUPPLIERS . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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SOARING RC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

PAYROLL HELPERS . . . . . . . . . 68 RUG PROFITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

SALES GROUP BAGS . . . . . . . . 30

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Metal Plates $27.00 dz

TRADE SHOWS

RETAILERS BANK . . . . . . . . . . . 46

12”x18” Metal Sign $5.25 each

RC VARIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

KWIK INC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 DAKOTA STEEL ART . . . . . . . . . 04

PROTECTION PLANS . . . . . . . . 70

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COOL GLOWING . . . . . . . . . . . 31

ASD @ASD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

FB CAMPAIGNS . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

FORUM PRINTERS . . . . . . . . . . 73

WindSocks $48.00 dz

Min.Order SELLER . . . . . . . . . .

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E-STORE SITES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 SNEAKER CLEARANCE BACK CVR

FORUM ADVISORS . . . . . . . . . .48

Metal Sign 12”X18” $5.75 Each

$15.50 Each

$36.00 dz

Magnets 3”x8” $18.00 dz

FIND IT ASIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

3pc Magnet

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Garden Flags

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FROM THE PUBLISHER This is a

great time of the year when hope springs eternal in the retail industry. Where each of us wishes that the showers of April will be in the form of coins falling into our registers. stores and malls to shake THE first quarter was off off the winter doldrums to a good start for many and see the new season’s retailers and wholesalers. merchandise.

With high employment THIS is where your store and decent consumer has to excel. If you have confidence there is a good the same winter goods and flow of business to be had. are just dusting them off FOR the most part the or moving your displays winter weather was good around you are not going to with exception of a couple have a good sales season. of cold snaps but all told the Instead, follow the lead of milder winter months made the big box stores and spruce up your for much better retailing all around.

YOU can always tell how things sales floor and displays. Add new colors will be in the industry by gauging the for the new season, new signage. Most attendance and buying at the trade important of all, new merchandise!

MANY of the big box stores have shows. This year has brought some consolidation of shows but for the closed or are downsizing. For a small most part attendance figures were business like yours this should be strong and buying numbers consistent viewed as opportunity to fill the void.

ONE of the advantages of being an with last year.

WITH so many retailers adding or independent retailer is the ability to expanding their online businesses move quickly and efficiently with our we’ve seen tighter negotiating between merchandise. There are few big chains suppliers and buyers as the margins that can update merchandise as have to be trimmed to be competitive quickly as we can. So take advantage of with online sellers. There were quite a that. With many wholesalers offering few furious negotiations I saw at the low or no minimum orders and as little last trade show. Almost akin to the old as one or two pieces at a time you need middle east marketplace, but with a to capiatlize on that.

FILL your store with a big variety of little less shouting!

WITH the nicer weather coming styles, colors and items that will make more shoppers will be pushing aside you stand out from the crowd and get their keyboards and heading out to shoppers through the doors!

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AS we are sure you have noticed, vap;ing and e-cigs have infiltrated the marketplace and are quickly becoming the replacement for traditional cigarettes. When you see the country’s top tobacco companies buying big stakes in vape and marijuana companies you know that this is going to be the product to watch.

BUYING smart is one of the keys to making money in the vape industry.

Getting the right supplier who has the best prices and selection will be the ke to your success.

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Shake Up In The Kids Marketplace

THERE is a great deal of news in the children’s marketplace this past month. Children’s clothing retailer Gymboree is selling its brand to The Childen’s Place and its Janie and Jack line to Gap Inc. THE Children’s Place is set to pay $76 million for the rights to Gymboree and the Crazy 8 brand, and assume a contract with Zeavion Holding which acquired Gymboree;s Play & Music business back in 2016, according to bankruptcy court proceedings. A rival of Gymboree, the Children’s Place has almost 1000 stores throughout the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. This acquisition will squash the rivalry and change the playing field.

GAP is going to pay $38 million for the high-end children’s fashion line Janie & Jack and its online business and leases to its stores in addition to other business assets including customer files based on bankruptcy filings.

THE San Francisco based Gymboree filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy stating it would close about 800 Gymboree and Crazy 8 stores in the USA and Canada. When they filed they had planned on running the Janie & Jack line and its Gymboree online platform.

BUT things change and getting Gap to pay $38 million seems like a great prospect for the company to pursue.

THIS deal comes close to Gap’s announcement that it would spin off Old Navy into its own company and close about 230, or half of its Gap stores over the next couple of years.

AND so it goes. Less selection for consumers and more vacant stores at shopping centers. Who’s the winner in this round?

Stores Capitalizing on Pet Owners

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Don’t Turn Off the Engine Just Because You’re Off the Ground Even when you have loyal advocates working for you and ads pulling for you, advertising your business can’t stop. When a young reporter asked William Wrigley during the heyday of his chewing gum empire why he continued to do so much advertising, the magnate responded, “Just because we’re in the air doesn’t mean we’re going to shut off the engine.”

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Trish and Will Hunter, a husband-and-wife speaking team and authors of Life Enrichment, check themselves into a bayfront resort at the end of each fiscal year to review their performance and to plan for the ensuing year. They started this practice years ago when each of them was working for separate companies.

Get Away to Get Perspective Then, it was a time to look at how they had saved and spent their investments. Today, they Nobody really has time to plan; you must make not only look at their time for it. One of the best ways to plan for personal finances but your business is to get away from the day-toalso the finances of their day routine and distractions. Go to a quiet joint speaking business. park, reserve a meeting room or a hotel suite, continued...

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“The most important piece of business we attend to at our annual planning retreat is to unToday, the Hunters have several new PACTs. scroll last year’s PACT to see if we are on track When they embarked on their career as public and to determine if we are still willing to comspeakers, the couple created a PACT that read, mit to the spirit of it,” says Trish. continued...

Along with spreadsheets and bank statements, the Hunters bring another important piece of paper that they call their PACT (A Promise to Accept Commitment Together.) It’s a one-ortwo-sentence proclamation of a goal the two have agreed to previously. The Hunters began making PACTs more than 20 years ago, when they decided to marry. That first PACT read, “To work on it for as long as it was worth it.”

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forumworkshop FORUM WORKSHOP “The PACT gives us perspective by letting us see how far we’ve come. It also helps us to refocus on the intent of our work and spurs us on to greater heights. Throughout the year when we’re caught up in traveling to speak and deadlines for writing books and producing tape albums, we remember our PACT and we find new reason and motivation to keep moving forward. With a PACT, you are willing to commit to go beyond your fear and self-doubt.”

Eight years ago, the Hunters also began mdyear evaluations as well. “During the year, we become involved in so many things that this serves as a moment of recommitment,” says Will. “We make the evaluation fun, by going out of town if we can and really making it a time to congratulate ourselves for our progress.

And it seems that the week after our evalua-

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As partners in life and business, Trish and Will are fortunate to have each other to share dreams. Don’t try to plan alone. You need the synergy that comes from brainstorming sessions with others who care about your success.

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Pryor says that no matter how long your plan – one year, five years, or ten years – it’s essential to be flexible. “Long-range goals can be vague, but the closer they get – say within a year or two – the more refined they must be,” says

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forumworkshop FORUM WORKSHOP Throughout the year, keep the advisory board apprised of your major business moves. Send them copies of pertinent reports, sales figures, new product introductions, and media coverage. But don’t inundate them. Make this material easy for them to file by giving them a 3-ring binder with your company’s name on it and sending material that has been 3-hole drilled.

Or send the material in file folders with the indexing tab already written for them.

Jack Berkman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Berkman & Daniels, a marketing and communications firm, says

he and his partner, Dick Daniels, formed an advisory board that includes a banker, an accountant, a major real estate executive, an attorney, and an entrepreneur who is chairman of an important business in the city. We meet with our advisory board quarterly to discuss our business’ growth. These individuals are all visionaries, and they are ambassadors for our company.

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poses. We credit the Public Relations Society of America and Professors Glen Broom, Ph.D., and David Dozier, Ph.D., of the Journalism Department at San Diego State University for their guidance in helping us understand the planning concept. Their pure public relations planning guides have been adapted here for the needs of our target public – readers of Self-Marketing Secrets. We trust however, that though simplified, the spirit of the intent is not lost.

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agents – to its seminars and must create a need that will make these individuals take time out PROBLEM 1: The ABC Company is a new of their schedules to attend. Current seminars weight-management program for executives are attracting 50 to 75 people; 80 to 100 are dethat concentrates on learning how to eat in the sired to generate the necessary profit margin. real world. That emphasis needs to be communicated to executives in a way that differenti- PROBLEM 3: Only 10% of the XYZ restaurant’s ates the program from other diet programs, business is return customers, resulting in a consuch as Nutri-System, Jenny Craig, Weight tinual need to spend marketing and public reWatchers, and the Diet Center. Ten to fifteen lations dollars to attract tourists and new clients per month are needed for the first 3 clientele. The restaurant must increase customer satisfaction to result in a 30% customer months to meet overhead and expenses. return rate over 6 months (a 20% increase.)

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2. Situation Analysis While the problem statement gives a concise description of the situation, the situation analysis is a summary of all that is known about your company’s situation, the forces operating on it, and those publics involved or affected by it. It contains all of the background information that has brought your company to where it is today.

This part of your marketing/public relations plan illustrates, in detail, the meaning of the problem statement. Through analysis of the situation, you are able to clearly and specifically define and refine the problem statement.

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FORUM WORKSHOP forumworkshop It also provides information on events and conditions outside of your company, such as the competition and the economy. State how each of your audiences is involved or affected by these conditions. You must know what each group thinks and wants in order to set meaningful objectives and develop action strategies. Put simply, the situation analysis, takes off the blinders and helps you see what should be seen.

brief surveys to find out who is buying your product/service? What are their ages, income levels, interests? Where do they live, work, and play? Why do they buy your product/service?

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Don’t assume or second guess. Too many people waste marketing dollars by guessing rather than asking what their publics want.

With specific information in hand, you can set All this means that you probably need to con- objectives for each public and develop strateduct some research before you begin outlining gies to achieve them. Take time to analyze the ways to meet your objectives. Do you know marketplace so that you can set realistic goals. who your existing and potential clients/cus- Avoid overpromising and underdelivering. tomers are? Have you asked them to fill out continued...

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Sue Jones purchased LMN Company and took over the accounts of 12 existing clients. In 2 years, the company attracted 6 new accounts. It wanted to add 2 new accounts per month over the next 6 months. continued...

Here is an abbreviated situation analysis for an employees-assistance company that provides counseling services to a company’s employees for such things as substance abuse, marital or family problems, legal problems, or illnesses.

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3. Opportunities and Threats State, in laundry-list form, what is working in your favor and what is not. What has made this an opportune time or situation for you to start, expand, or aggressively market your specific business? What impending danger looms out there that you need to recognize? Making a list of these types of pros and cons forces you to take a hard look at the opportunities you face and the obstacles you must overcome.

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FORUM WORKSHOP forumworkshop Outline the type of competition you face and any guilt-by-association you must overcome. Is the market saturated? Has something been reported in the media that will make this a particularly good or bad time to launch or promote your business or product/service?

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• The time frame in which you estimate the goal can The goals are the most important statement in reasonably be achieved the marketing and/or public relations plan. • The geographic area where They outline what you hope to accomplish over all of this will take place a specific time period. Goals are the payoff and Here are a few sample goal statements: must also be stated in specific time period.

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Increase the number of diamond ring Make them do-able, not too modest or too ambitious. State not only what you plan to achieve sales during the winter and spring months but also by what specific date. Be sure the out- (before summer weddings) from 10 to 15 per month at the center city mall outlet. come can be measured.

2. Increase the number of 4-color printing Goals statements generally involve the change jobs in the new shop by 15% between or maintenance of behavior of your target January 1 and June 30. publics. A good goal statement includes: 3. Establish a client base of 20 biweekly customers at the Nail Emporium by January 1.

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Publics for an accounting firm would include the following: • Small businesses without in-house accounting • Private citizens interested in tax planning and filing services

• Bankers and financial planners who serve as potential referral sources • Current clients 6. Objectives Now, break each goal down into measurable objectives by your publics in order of importance. Include a time frame, as you did in the goal statement.

Just as goals define the overall outcome for the entire marketing/public relations program, objectives state desired outcomes for each of your publics. You should have a goal statement for each defined public, and each public may have 2 or more objectives. By reaching the objectives for each group, the overall goals of the program are achieved. continued...

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FORUM WORKSHOP forumworkshop 7. Action Strategies At last you’re ready for action. List all of the possible moves you must make to achieve each objective, thereby meeting the goal. Unfortunately, this is where many people start their planning. But you really cant’ determine the action until you have conducted initial search, identified the problem, analyzed the situation, and determined quantifiable goals and objectives.

This is where you designate the specific steps you will take to meet each objective, such as local, national, or trade journal media relations; speaker’s bureau campaign; or direct mail campaign. You will also identify what you will have to produce – news releases, brochures, flyers, newsletters, direct mail pieces, etc.

Don’t Forget to Evaluate Evaluation means measuring how well the objectives were achieved for each activity, and the goal, overall. The smart self-marketer builds evaluation methods into the plan so that all the eggs are not in one basket if a specific action strategy flops.

Use hindsight to critically analyze your efforts and to help guide you to an even brighter future. That’s why politicians use follow-up polls after debates on the campaign trail – and that’s why they frequently change their tactics midway. continued...

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FORUM WORKSHOP forumworkshop Here are some questions to ask yourself to help grade your efforts.

• Did the message communicated meet the needs and desires of the target publics?

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• Were there adverse reactions to messages or actions?

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• Were staff and budget adequate for the plan?

Time for an Attitude Adjustment Once you’ve evaluated results, adjust your plan, taking into consideration both positive and negative evaluations. Use your evaluation

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