Wholesale Listings
Hi, I’m Chris Malta, CEO of Worldwide Brands. Let’s take a look at Best
Practices for working with Wholesaler Listings.
Before listing a wholesaler in the database, Worldwide Brands’ Research Team
takes every wholesaler through a critical and thorough verification process to
ensure that they are a genuine manufacturer or factory authorized wholesaler.
This ensures that you’re getting the best possible wholesale prices and the most
complete information anywhere on the internet.
Worldwide Brands provides all the information you need to effectively make your
first call to that Supplier to learn about their Company, products and services
and to open an account. It provides a fast start to building an excellent
relationship with a Supplier Representative who can help you make money in your
business.
Every wholesale listing contains a sample of product images, physical address,
website address, representative contact name, and contact information including
phone and fax number. The listing will also include shipping methods and
regions, payment terms, and more listed in the comment section. You will also
see a sample of their main product lines as well as the brand names they
distribute by selecting on these sections within the wholesale listing.
Use the “My Suppliers Notes” section on the “Supplier Listing Pages” within the
Database to keep important notes about your favorite suppliers.
Some Worldwide Brands Members use the Notes section to keep information they
learn about their sales representative as they go along, like, interests,
family, birthdays – you know – personal information that helps build a closer
relationship with these people who are so important to your business.
Others keep notes about advice given by the representative, upcoming specials or
technical information about the products that will help answer questions that
your customers may ask.
When you are ready to set up a wholesale account, look at the bottom of the
wholesale company listing page for instructions or for an instant online account
setup form to submit to the supplier. The online account setup form submits your
business information directly to the wholesaler. You can update your information
to pre-populate the fields for you, by clicking on the My Account link on the
top of the screen.
Sometimes a Supplier prefers to take you directly to their website to capture
the information they need to set you up with an account.
If this is a supplier you like, and you are planning to do a lot of business
with them, then you should save them to your “My Preferred Suppliers” list on
the dashboard, so that you can quickly access them.
Simply select the “Add to My Suppliers” button in the top right corner.
As you learn in Chapter 7 of Worldwide Brand’s education product, The Whole
$ale, it’s a wise Retailer who builds a good relationship with the Supplier’s
Sales Representative. If they like you, a Supplier Representative will help you
with early heads up on new, high demand products, specials, close out sales or
general suggestions on how to move more products. Sales people build their
incomes on commissions. They want you to be successful. Get to know the
strategic ones really well.
In our next Chapter we will explore Best Practices for performing multiple
market research analyses.