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Any Time Wholesale Business Blog www.Anytimewholesale.com/blog |
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Donation to St. Jude Hospital Any Time Wholesale was proud to be a sponsor for the "Trikeathon" to help raise money for St. Jude Children's Hospital. This was a local event in our area which allowed children to ride their bikes and collect sponsor money to donate. St. Jude does incredible things for children and we were happy to assist.
Lots of updates coming in 2008 But probably not to many on this blog. We're going to be doing some major upgrades to our server at the end of the year. At the same time, we'll also be installing some "real" blogging software so that I can make blog entries from the road. In regards to business, we are predicting a strong 2008. We've already had a record January, and our second best February. This is only possible if the retailers we're selling to are also making sales. More to come soon... Order NOW and be ready for
"Black Friday" Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away, and the three shopping days after Thanksgiving are a critical time for any retailer. Be sure to order your inventory early so that it arrives in plenty of time. Heads-Up on some new products! Exciting news! We've just negotiated some new distribution deals for some exciting new products. 1) We're bringing in several new watch styles. These will include several new ladies styles and pocket watches. 2) Clocks! We are adding several new clocks to our product like, including NFL and NASCAR clocks! New Shopping Cart coming in January Exciting news! We're in the final testing of our new shopping cart program for our website. We are expecting this new system to go "live" approximately December 28th. This new system will be much more sophisticated than our current system and will include several new and exciting features. Some of those features are: Creating Online Accounts: You will now be able to create an online account to save your billing & shipping information. This feature will make checking out on repeat orders even faster! Paypal and Google Checkout: We've added two additional payment features that many of our customers have asked for. Online Order Status Updates: You will now be able to log-in to your account any time to see the status of your order. You'll also be able to get your UPS or USPS tracking number right online to track your order! Cover story in "Cover
Magazine" We were interviewed by "Cover" magazine, a leading wholesale industry publication, for the lead story in their November issue. The issue covers the Watch & Jewelry industry and talks about the upcoming 2006 Holiday season. We're honored to be on the front page and wish to thank everyone at Cover magazine. If you would like to receive cover magazine, you can contact Sumner Communications HERE.
2006 Car Show We opened our doors to the public for a few hours this weekend to participate in our towns annual Car show. Hundreds of people showed up for the event and were treated to music, food, and of course, the car show. Since the car show was in the Any Time Wholesale parking lot, we thought it would be fun to open the doors and allow local customers to see our merchandise. It was a fun time for everyone!
Power back-up systems installed We've just completed the installation of emergency power back-up systems in our facility. These backup systems provide instant power for our main computer systems and phone network, allowing us to continue work during short power outages. As some of you might remember, we had several power outage problems last year which prompted us to look into the back-up systems. New Men's & Ladies Gift Sets! We now have our new Men's & Ladies gift sets for the holiday season! These sets have already become our top sellers. Order them now before the holiday frenzy starts! New Showroom Picture
of the new showroom The Holiday season is upon us! We've just finished our major inventory additions and we're now ready for the busy holiday season! We've also just added more advertising (mostly print) in several trade magazines. Lending a helping hand "Giving back to the community" is one of the core values of Any Time Wholesale and Leo Business Group, Inc. That is why we were happy to give multiple donations this week to several charities. Our local Fire Department is celebrating their 50th anniversary this week. To kick of the celebration they held a Fireworks display for the community. We were happy to make a contribution to our local fire department to help offset the costs of this wonderful show. To help with the ongoing devastation in Louisiana after hurricane Katrina, Any Time Wholesale was proud to make a contribution to the Red Cross. Old Showroom gone, replaced by
smaller display area. Once
again we're working on a Saturday Kids are so spoiled, but
that's a good thing for retailers! Average Back-to-School Spending by Category • Apparel: $205.31 (Fashion watches are included in this category, so stock up!) • Shoes: $88.54 • School Supplies: $81.83 (Retailindustry.about.com) Shopping Cart Blunder We had a small programming blunder with our online shopping cart. Several different styles of watches couldn't be purchased for a period of about 12 hours. All is now fixed! Sorry for the inconvenience. One rough Friday... Eastern Pennsylvania was hit with the remnants of a tropical storm last Friday. While it wasn't anything for the record books, it completely knocked out Power & Phones to our building for the entire day! Needless to say, we were all very stressed out that day! Since we couldn't pack or ship any merchandise, we all sacrificed our Sunday and came in to work so that our shipping department wouldn't be overrun on Monday. We also gave several customers free upgrades to 3-day shipping, since there orders left the warehouse late. To help prevent this from happening in the future, Leo Business Group has decided to invest in emergency backup generators for the building. We're also looking into having a dedicated cellular phone backup system. LIFETIME warranty on all
watches We've just made it even easier for you to sell our watches to your customers! Effective Tuesday June 28th, all watches sold by us will come with a limited LIFETIME warranty card for you to give to your customers! If your customer ever has a problem with the watch mechanism, they can mail the watch back to our anonymous address for repair or replacement. We here at Any Time Wholesale have been a LEADER in the the fashion watch industry for more than 5 years. Our company has grown by Double Digits each year because of the loyalty and dedication we've shown to our customers. Thank you for coming back again and again and we look forward to your continued business. P.S. We have some more big announcements coming in future months! Oh yeah, we have a Blog! Sorry for the lack of updates. We've had a lot going on and haven't had much time to keep up with the blog. We'll have more info soon!
The 'March of Dimes' Walk! Any Time Wholesale was proud to participate in this years "March of Dimes" walk to help raise money for children. The event was a huge success! Thousands of people showed up to walk the 5-mile event, and a lot of money was raised...
New Scarf Watches! We've just added the new Women's Scarf watches to our product line. Order quickly, these are available for a limited time only! Our Watch Displays in the news Our single watch displays (WAT101) were used during a news segment on San Diego’s KUSI TV in California. The were used during the "Muscleman of Technology" segment to show-off some high-tech watches. If you'd like to watch the broadcast, they have it posted on the web HERE (April 20th show). They were kind enough to give our company a plug HERE. Lower Prices on Leather-band Spinner
Watches Due to the high volume of leather-band spinner watches we sell, we've negotiated a lower price, and we're passing the savings on to you! We've reduced the price from $8.50 to just $7.25 per-watch. The adjustment went into effect about 2 weeks ago, but we've just changed the price on the website. Gmail email.. If anyone needs a Google Gmail email address, I have plenty of invites. Just email me at the address above... We're popular! Our Alexa.com ranking is now below 70,000. This puts us somewhere in the top 5% of all websites visited on the internet! That's pretty cool! See HERE New Watch Boxes We've added a new watch box to our selection. Several customers have reported that they have been able to sell the Men's Metal watches for almost double what they were selling for, because the box really makes the watches look more expensive! This works primarily in larger retail outlets. We like to try and give you every possible option for making extra money! We want your opinion? Should
we add these watches to our regular product line? Voting Closed, Thanks!
Sales Tip Make BIG signs for your watches! Your selling a great product at a great price, make sure everyone knows about it!
First Blog entry Welcome to our very first blog entry! Why a blog for Any Time Wholesale? Well, our company is growing at an incredible pace and we thought this would be an excellent way to release small pieces of information that you might not hear ordinarily. Plus, we thought it would be a great place to give tips that we pick up to help you increase sales. So bookmark this
page! You never know when I might come up with a great idea or
suggestion. Or steal one from someone else...
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We are completing the dismantling of our old showroom today. It was necessary
because we have simply run out of office space and need more. The
old showroom space will now be turned into 4 new offices, including an
office for Wholesale Palace Staff. We'll eventually post some
pictures of the new display room.
