Wholesale 101

Usually this request is accompanied by some form of a sob story or excuse. The reason can range from “I don’t get paid until Friday” to “I’m waiting on my tax returns” to “My credit card numbers were stolen and the new card hasn’t arrived yet!”, regardless of the reason the potential buyer wants you to remove an item you have listed for sale and wait on them to remit payment. Heres what you need to know about this situation:First of all, keep in mind that someone asking you to hold something d …

If you want to get donations for whatever your cause is, here’s what you need to know:First, most businesses, especially family-owned or small businesses in general, are actually pretty darn charitable HOWEVER every small business I know, including our company, works with LOCAL charities, schools and organizations. BigBrandWholesale.com has donated tons of merchandise over the past 16+ years to LOCAL causes. It makes utterly no sense for us to ship something out-of-state to donate it when we h …

There's some craziness going on with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp today, all of which are owned by Facebook.  When the world tried to access their personal and business accounts today, 10-4-21 they were met with this error message instead:We don't know what specifically is going on but we know it started this morning with Facebook stock crashing:By 11:45am EST on 10-4-21 all three of the Facebook sites went offline. This event quickly made "#FacebookDown" trending on Twitter.& …

If you are trying to figure out the exact size o an item, here's the measurements based on size for standard sizes, XXS / 0 through XXL / 22.  You can click on the image to view it full-screen:Need to measure clothing? You can grab an awesome clothing tape measure on Amazon for as little as $2.99 with free shipping! …

A new Etsy shop owner, Shelly Riddle who owns NeoAndMeeko felt like she was struggling with sales when she had been “open 3 months and only made 13 sales”, so she turned to fellow Etsy sellers on Reddit for advice and critique. Here’s the best pieces of advice from all of the replies:1. 13 sales in 3 months is NOT bad! It takes time to grow. 2. Etsy’s search engine starts to “find” your shop and inventory when you get closer to 100 items. I have duplicate some of the listings in my shop, varie …