Wholesale 101

Every day, ask yourself “What is one thing I can do to make my business better?”, then get it done. About a year ago one of my employees made the suggestion of getting one of those giant wall calendars and every day writing stuff we have done to improve. Yes, even after 15 years we find a way, every single day, to improve! This can be simple stuff like writing a great blog post that helps people or it can be more complex, such as adding a new Category or Sub Category to our site or writing a …

Listen to other people… but consider the source.... Have you ever felt sick and went to the internet to find out what is wrong with you…. Then discovered, according to internet authors, you are definitely dying! Cancer! Heart Disease! Low Thyroid! Rush to ER NOW!!!!I had one of these situations happen to me a couple years back. I had this pain in my ear. Really awful pain that started on a Friday night. The internet told me I am probably losing my hearing! I am going to be deaf in one ear …

When we purchase truckloads from big brand stores we don’t really know exactly what we are getting. All we know is that its from a specific store (for example, Sears). We know that whatever it is, Sears’s product buyers determined it was a good item and therefore they have already done the legwork for us. So, when one of our buyers tells us the items they bought from us “aren’t selling” it makes me wonder: Sears thought it was a good item, then you thought it was a good item (otherwise …

Sales do not come overnight… until they literally start coming overnight, every night. But how do you get there? Here’s some really simple advice to help you grow faster...PART 1:  Time Investment / How much time is needed for an online business?You will only get out what you put in. If you look at it like this: there’s 24 in a day. How many hours each day are you giving to your business? If you give 2 hours a day, that’s less than 10% of the day. You should expect to get very little o …

I thought my little “life lesson” true story was inspirational.  I kept seeing these online posts “It’s SOOOOO EASY TO GROW AVOCADO From PITS!!”. So, as anyone else would, I assumed it must be (soooo) easy to grow avocado from pits; I mean, can *all* these people be wrong??  And heck, I like avocados...I then bought mason jars, cut open my avocados super carefully as to avoid damaging the pit (seed), washed them like I was bathing an infant, stuck toothpicks in them per the onlin …