The heat wave is upon us. Therefore, you must get your store ready with all the right accessories for your customers. Have you accounted for what’s on trend and what customers are gravitating towards? There are so many trends to keep up with. However, summer is all about going bold and bright. Anything goes during the summertime and your customers are ready to deck out their homes and get in the mood for the weather. So, FGmarket has a few picks that will definitely be a hit amongst your customers and ideal for the warmer weather.

Home Textiles - This trend should definitely be carried throughout the house, textiles included. You can feature beautiful pillows, bedding, curtains, tapestries, throws and afghans. Home textiles definitely make wonderful accents and are an inexpensive way to bring what’s in style into a home. A beautiful blanket or even curtains can definitely transform a room. It may be simple, yet it can have a huge impact.

Creative Women, Triple Creek Products, Ecoaccents

Home Decor - Again, an easy way to bring in the latest trends is with home decor. These can make a huge impact or even a simple statement, yet still showing off the trends. There are so many unique items to feature as home decor like vases, picture frames, mirrors, accent pieces, artwork, clocks, ceramic items and so much more. During this time, they will definitely start featuring what’s on trend within their products so you can find pieces for your shop. Look for color in these products. Some may want to include this in their house in a big way or even in a subtle way. So, provide both options for your customers.

Oakland Pottery, Glass From The Avenue, Cultural Intrigue

Kitchenware - A big way to incorporate these products into your store is with kitchenware. This is the time for entertaining and having guests over. So, your customers want to provide them with something fun and festive, which is what summer is all about. You can feature different serving pieces, enamel plates and bowls with various colors and prints, unique silverware and serving utensils. Also, don’t forget about all the unique drinkware you can feature in your store. The great thing about these items is that they’re not pricey. Eating and entertaining outdoors are both wonderful activities that take place during this time. So, make sure your customers are ready with the latest trends.

Kraft Klub, Inc., The Mane Lion, Bentley Drink Ware

Outdoor Decor - Since this time is all about the beautiful weather, consumers are wanting to get outdoors and enjoy it. So, provide outdoor decor as well. Customers will spend most of their time entertaining outdoors during this gorgeous weather, so make sure they carry the bright and colorful trend to their outdoors.

India Handicrafts, Inc., Accent Decor, Inc., Cheryl Wolff Ceramics

Featuring the latest trends in your store is always a must. Your customers expect to walk in and find the latest ones so they can incorporate them into their own homes. They may want to do it all the way or just incorporate trends in a subtle way, either way, you need to offer those types of products to your customers. They’ll truly appreciate you for that.

Can you think of products that never get old in your store? Products that can attract customers in all year round, what is that? Home accents are great to carry in your store every day all year round. They change throughout the seasons and customers love changing up their homes every season. A.T. Imports Ltd. offers beautiful home accents that change throughout every season and your customers will enjoy everything.

Satisfactory Customer Service

Variety Of Home Accents

A.T. Imports Ltd. only offers exquisite products that range from seasonal items, craft supplies and floral & home decor. Since their goal is to always provide their customers with the best products available at a fair price with unmatched customer service, you know you’ll be 100% satisfied. What more could you ask for from your wholesale supplier of home accents?

Seasonal Home Accents

What will you find from A.T. Imports Ltd.? You’ll find great home accents for any season! Choose from a great sign to hang that features “Live, Laugh, Love” or “Always kiss me goodbye”. These signs come in a variety of colors and look great in any room. An adorable “The bunny stops here” sign would be great for Easter or a red, white and blue star would be the perfect decoration for 4th of July. The products they offer stand out from everything else in your store. If they stand out in your store, your customers will definitely want to bring that style to their home.

Even outdoor products will bring great style to patios or front porches. A colorful lizard plaque, turtle statue to gorgeous pots; all these items will brighten up the home outdoors. Indoors or outdoors, they have something for every home and for any room. Plus, these items will even add Continue reading “Receive Amazing Style from A.T. Imports Ltd.” »

Home accents are probably a huge part of your store’s inventory. Customers love adding a touch of flair to their home to make it truly unique. Beautiful detailing, various colors and styles are all what makes up gorgeous home accents. Well, Vessels Pottery LLC achieves all that and then some. They offer a beautiful product line of handmade stoneware pottery that will truly bring a touch of flair to your customer’s homes.

Vessels Pottery LLC offers beautiful handmade stoneware. They use a light clay body, as well as terra-cotta and raku clays to create a unique, nature inspired and raku pottery. You’ll also find that beautiful stained glass and recycled glass are incorporated into the pieces as well.

Always paying close attention to detail so you’ll see the appreciation they have for nature and for function. When combining these two elements, you’ll find truly remarkable and unique work.

Amazing fused glass crosses in various sizes, pendants, dishes, platters, soap dishes, finger bowls and specialty items are some of the great things they offer.

Their beautiful crosses come in small, medium and large and are featured in special designs, patterns, glass and glaze colors. A gorgeous blue cross with a touch of green and scroll designs would be a great home accent or an ideal gift.

Do you have customers in your store who love to redecorate, entertain or are in search of a hostess gift? Well Vessels Pottery LLC gorgeous footed bowls, various sized platters, finger bowls and specialty items that would be suitable for all 3 of those customers.

A gorgeous green platter with blue paisley designs, larger blue platters with swirls or a gorgeous initial platter will all make wonderful housewares & gifts. Pair these items with gourmet food items to make a wonderful gift pairing for the Continue reading “Find Gorgeous Handmade Pottery From Vessels Pottery LLC” »

The one thing that you must offer in your store is gifts. Gifts are truly the essentials in your store. All your customers will need one sometime throughout each month and they want to visit your store to find the perfect one. However, you need variety since not everyone shares the same style. One company doing just this is Craft Wholesalers. You’ll be able to find everything that your customers will want and then some for your store.

Always Offering Variety

Great Home Accents & Gifts

This wholesale supplier of gift items offers a wide variety of gifts for your customers. That way all taste buds and styles are accounted for. You’ll truly find something for everyone. Not only do they offer variety, but they also want to provide you and your customers with excellent customer service and quality products.

What You Can Choose From

Whenever you’re looking for gifts, home accents and home decor; you want to find items that will be suitable for everyone’s style. Craft Wholesalers does exactly just this. They offer products, such as:

• Angels/Dolls
• Baskets
• Barn Stars
• Candles/Lamps/Lights
• Craft Supplies
• Decorative Box Sets
• Gift Bags & Paper
• Indoor/Outdoor Garden
• Jewelry
• Seasonal
• Signs/Plaques/Frames
• Trees/Garland/Wreaths

These great items will make wonderful home accents and gift items. Plus, your every single one of your customers will find something with them. They’ll love placing these home decor items around in their house to show off their unique style.Imagine placing one of their antiqued barn stars out in the kitchen to give off that homey feel or their fun coffee sign would look great in the kitchen as well, your customers will love it.

Not only will they be able to use their home items to show off their style, but they’ll also be able to find something that will make a wonderful gift item. A beautiful faith, love and hope necklace set would be a wonderful gift idea for mothers, wives or close friends. Your customers will find gifts for any occasion, birthdays, Christmas, bridal shower and housewarming gifts. Just add a beautiful greeting card to it and your customers will have the ideal gift.

They even have items for your own personal use in your store that will truly add some style to it. Open & closed signs, decorative shopping bags Continue reading “Find Everything You Need & More With Craft Wholesalers” »

Are you in the process of buying for your store? Need an idea on what will be appealing to your customers for Summer 2011? Let, FGmarket help by providing you with our top picks for Summer 2011. Your store will be full of fabulous items that your customers will love! Staying on trend is one of the main components that will help your store thrive during each season.

Modern/Contemporary Design – Yes, this trend has been with us, but it will be here to stay too. Customers are drawn towards these unique lines and structure within home decor. If you want to carry vases, frames or mirrors with this trend; your customers will be able to place just one piece in their home and it will transform it. Clean, modern shapes will have your store up-to-date on all the latest trends.

One of FGmarket’s vendors providing just that is SKALNY. They offer great home accents, housewares, kitchen accessories, furniture, baskets and containers that will take anyone’s home to the next level.

Traditional – Keeping in trend with traditional is also still a big trend. Keeping home decor more towards the traditional element will have your store in style. You can show off great traditional elements in your store to give it a true homey feel. Sticking to the classics should always be a staple piece within your store. Customers will always be drawn to the traditional elements.

Home Decoration Accessories offers great traditional items that your customers will love to feature in their home. They will become staple pieces. From their candle holders, vases to their bowls; your customers will enjoy their traditional pieces.

Retro Fun – Along with traditional and modern, retro inspired designs are coming back into style. Your customers will be able to display them as home accents or in their kitchen. Fun owls, vintage photos or vintage home decor should all be featured in your store. These fun designs can be featured in home accents, stationery or artwork that can be displayed throughout the home.

Sign Of The Times offers great decorative signs that you’ll be able to feature in your store. They feature retro designs, vintage ones and humorous signs. Customers will be able to be on top of this trend with this company. Placing these signs in a game room, home office or kitchen will make those rooms that much more fun.

Eco – Friendly Chic -Providing your customers with environmentally friendly products will truly make them happy. Promoting a better lifestyle and helping the environment are big trends in everything. Whether you are wanting to provide Eco-friendly stationery, all-natural gourmet food or home decor made from recyclable items., they all fit in with the “going green” motto.

reGreet provides a fun and chic way to reuse greeting cards and accessories. They provide cute stickers that you can place in your card to cover up where someone else has written something. With these items, you’ll be able to regreet your card. A great way to save paper throughout the world.

These 4 designs are extremely popular right now, Gifts And Decorative Accessories listed them in their December 2010 issue. Staying on top of Summer trends this year will be a must for your store. Your customers will love visiting your store for all the latest trends, so stay up-to-date!

I’ve often said this before, but I say it because it works. Go outside and then come back into your shop and look around. Take notice of how your store is set up. Do you have crossover items displayed next to each other?  Or is it just a  lot of mismatched  items that you displayed in a way  that  makes sense only to you?  As store owners, we see our stores everyday and we tend  to lose sight of how to best market our items to the consumer.

Visual Merchandising Marketing

One of your biggest assets is using your shop to market your products.  Marketing does not stop at advertising with print or radio media; that is merely a starting point to help get customers in your door.

Once they are in the door, you must continue your marketing strategy through visual merchandising.  To do this successfully, look at all items you  can  cross-sell.  What do I mean by cross-selling  –   utilizing all products to combine sales and work your marketing magic.

Combining Product Categories To Create Visual Interest

Great Wedding Supplies

If you’re not combining items, then you’re missing out on sales. Let’s take wedding supplies. Look at how we can group them with other products to make more sales.  One good way to visually merchandise wedding supplies is to display them near the housewares and table top products.  You may be asking why?  These are the items a bride and groom may need to set up their new home.

You already have a bride and/or her bridal party looking at wedding supplies, such as cake toppers or bride and groom toasting glasses. Think about your product placement and display housewares items and table top items near your wedding supplies.  You’ll be employing one of the oldest marketing tricks known……subliminal selling.

Let Visual Interest Create An Opportunity

Let’s consider a customer that has her mind set only on wedding supplies and she’s come in to order napkins for her wedding. Because you have beautiful Continue reading “Housewares & Tabletop Products Form A Perfect Union With Wedding Supplies” »

Something that every store should have are home accents. Why? Customers love them. They love to provide their home with something new and unique for each season. And if not, housewares make wonderful gifts too. However, your customers want something that’s one-of-a-kind. A product that will make their home stand out from the rest. So when finding something unique for your customers, visit Accent Decor Inc. They offer beautiful housewares that will make a statement in any home.

Accent Decor Inc strives to deliver their customers quality products that are up-to-date on the latest trends. They are always on the search for new products to add to their ever evolving collection. Only wanting to offer the best to you and your customers. Their product line contains elegant home decor, such as:

• Clear Glass Home Accents
• Colored Glass Home Accents
• Candle holders
• Metal, Glass, Iron & Natural Vases
• Topiarys
• Lanterns

All of these products will make great home accents. One of their black, over-sized vases will look great in a modern home. Along with their mercury finished hourglass shaped vases filled with beautiful fillers to make a great tablescape. These home accents would look beautiful.

Your customers will be able to place these items as tabletop accents, fireplace mantels or their kitchen. They’ll absolutely find something that is suitable for any and every room in their home. Customers will be thrilled that these items are in your store.

These all sound great! However, use them to your advantage too. Accent Decor Inc offers great vases along with fillers and beautiful wire. Create a gorgeous centerpiece using these items. Your customers will love featuring your innovative designs using these beautiful products as tabletop accents. Everyone will find a variety of uses for these gorgeous products.

When searching for unique decor for your store, visiting Accent Decor Inc is an absolute must. Their variety of beautiful glassware, tabletop accents and home decor will have any store, along with any home, looking flawless.

As 2010 comes to a close, you need to get a game plan for 2011.

To get started, grab your 2011 calender and make a note of all the gift-giving holidays. Most calendars come with the standard US holidays, so you may need to research some of the non-standard holidays like Friendship Day. A search on Bing, Yahoo or Google can help you find these holidays.

Why Are Non-standard Holidays Important For Gifts Sales?

As a shop owner, you need sales throughout the year, not just around Christmas or Valentine’s Day. Striving to be more than just a once or twice a year gift shop will increase sales and stabilize your bottom line.

So How Do You Become An Every Occasion Gift Store?

By marketing gifts that are appropriate for any local holidays or special occasions, such as home comings, festivals, school events or community affairs. Don’t forget the odd special occasion like National Oatmeal Month Continue reading “What The Future Holds For Gift Shop Sales In 2011” »

Do your customers have a fun, unique personality that they’d love to show off in their home? A unique piece of art from Smish Studios will absolutely do the trick. Beautiful glass creations featuring fun sea creatures in vibrant colors will show off their unique sense of style and let their home stand out. Unique pieces of art from Smish Studios is exactly what your store needs to set it apart from the rest.

This stained glass art has been turned into a unique collectors piece because of it’s unique feel and beautifully hand-crafted design. With over 25 years of experience, Smish Studios has perfected their fun creations to offer an individual piece of art just for you. Especially for your customers that will truly enjoy each and every design.

Smish Studios offers one-of-a-kind fused stained glass sea creatures. Each work of art is creatively thought of from the sea and is hand-crafted, decorated and fired in a kiln. No piece is exactly the same and come in vibrant colors and unique shapes that show off fun personalities. Imagine sea creatures, fish, lobsters, turtles and flamingos; these would go great in any home. Each stained glass art is amazingly vibrant and uniquely shaped. So fun and so unique!

Each smish comes in various sizes, small medium and large. The absolute exceptional home accent. Do your customers decorate with fun and vibrant colors? Do they even have a tropical, ocean themed decorated kitchen or bathroom? These pieces will be a great fit for their home!

Let your customers imagine a beautifully shaped and colorful sea turtle on their wall above the kitchen stove. How about a colorful lobster in red, blues and yellows to add a unique flair to their tropical themed bathroom? Absolutely great is what they’ll say! Smish Studios home accent pieces add a colorful hue to beautifully decorated homes. Take homes back to the Tropics with their unique products that will look absolutely unique and one-of-a-kind.

Smish Studios will add a unique flair to your store with their detailed work in stained glass art. Each unique home accent will undoubtedly add Continue reading “Fun And Colorful Stained Glass Art From Smish Studios” »

Great news for retailers! The most versatile wholesaler, Sunrise Wholesale, is here to help you! With an abundance of wholesale items to fill your store, shoppe, or boutique, they make buying wholesale products easy and affordable!

You won’t need to go anywhere else to find wholesale decor, wholesale furniture, wholesale home accents, wholesale personal care, and more!

If you want to offer the widest variety of cute, trendy home accents or luxurious personal care items, then Sunrise Wholesale is your one-of-a-kind choice. Some of the types of wholesale products that Sunrise carries are listed below:

• Shabby Chic Collection home accents and furniture.
• French Inspired home accents and home decor.
• Mango Wood Collection includes hanging mirrors, wall shelves and sconces and a variety of home decor items.
• Exotic Candle Holders with styles ranging from modern designs to animal inspired collections.
• Home Furnishings, such as end tables, coffee tables, curio cabinets and more
• Birdhouses with original designs or themed styles.
• Garden Statues, such as elegant ceramic containers and playing children statues.
• Bath and Beauty luxurious home spa products
• Candle Collection with a vast collection of styles from simple to eccentric.
• Kitchen Helpers like canisters, cooking utensils and even kitchen decor.
• Asian Inspired home accents.
• Everyday practical and useful household items.
• Heavenly Inspired vases, statues, decor and more.
• Christmas decorations and home accents.

Sunrise Wholesale also offers one of the most unique wholesale business services you will find. They want to help you sell your products, so they have created website templates enabling the ability to customize for your business. The process is simple and the website is fully developed to take online orders.

In addition, if you are seeking an eBay wholesale supplier, Sunrise wholesale products are great for these online auctions! In fact, they will ship the items directly to the auction winner for you! Whether you are selling online or in a store, you can expect to double your money when you buy wholesale merchandise from Sunrise Wholesale!

No other wholesale resource is willing to work so hard to help you profit. Sunrise Wholesale is genuinely concerned with offering you prices far Continue reading “Excellent Solution to all of Your Wholesale Needs!” »