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It is that time of year again, and everyone seems to be getting into the holiday spirit. From twinkling lights on a Christmas tree to the sparkly icicles hanging from the roof edges, every inch and surface of your home has probably been holiday-fied Now, with Supreme Glow, Inc. you can also add lights to your wardrobe this holiday season! [Read more…]
Finding products for everyone in your store is essential, even the children. Having products that will keep children entertained for hours, yet they can still learn and work with their hands is always a plus. Parents will love that as well as the kids. So, what type of products do you feature? One product that comes to mind is Twisteeze from a quality company that is always working towards creating unique products to satisfy everyone.
Witzend Workshop LLC truly offers a stand out product that children of all ages will love. This is a family owned business that has been producing Twisteez wire and wax melting goods since 1960. So, what exactly are Twisteez?
They are colorful pieces of wire that are great for arts and crafts. It’s just not wire, it’s a product that will keep children entertained for hours and be able to get truly creative. Their creativity is limitless.
What can they create with these fun crafting wires? Almost anything they like. Children just have to let their creativity get to working. Creating colorful balls that can serve as some fun home decor, alligator, robots, hearts, seasonal decor, wire flowers, baskets macrame and even jewelry are just some of the things children and even adults will be creating.
Witzend Workshop LLC even offers videos on their website with some creative tutorials. Improving children motor skills, while they have fun is an absolute plus! Everyone will find that these items are so fun to make! Children can even make items to give as gifts. Not only are these great for children, but adults, teachers and Sunday school teachers will enjoy these products.
You’ll also find more than just colorful wires. Their wax melter palette can create crayons, while their wax melter pen melts wax or crayon to produce a controlled line for drawing, candle decorating, silk painting and wax resist. Even the adults in your store will be getting crafty.
Also, these make wonderful gifts! Pair them with children books, paint and other arts and craft supplies and your customers will have an unforgettable gift. Kids will open this present and be pleasantly surprised when they see these fun and colorful wires!
When wanting to find unique products for the children in your store; Witzend Workshop LLC. is the one to choose. Their colorful wires and unique craft items will have [Read more…]
Novelty items are great to feature in your store, it’s that simple. There are so many great novelty items that you can have in your store that will definitely please a variety of people. These items are just fun to have in your store and provide so many uses for your customers. Plus, you’ll be able to please almost all of your customers with great novelty items. However, how do you choose which ones to feature in your store? Well, FGmarket has our picks for some unique novelty products.
Texas Basket Co., Pet-Delights, Sunrise Wholesale Merchandise, Ideals Publications, Woodluck LLC., Amac Plastic Products, Hugg-A-Planet, ID Gear, Whisk and Spoon
Novelty items are great to feature in your store. You may just be looking for great products that take up space on your shelves, yet are wonderful sellers too. Novelty items do just that. The whole family loves these items, therefore, they are a must in your store. There is such variety, which makes it easy to find the right novelty products that fit your store’s target market best. Just have fun with these items.
Along with the beautiful, amazing and unique products you carry in your store, there needs to be fun, novelty items as well. Everyone has a fun side and loves playing games or having fun with unique items. So, what better way to suit your customer’s needs than with Playing Cards R Us. Their unique playing cards will be a great addition to your store since they make great gift ideas and customers will just have to have these in their home for a fun night in.
Playing Cards R Us is a custom playing card printer that focuses on customer service, which is the key to your satisfaction and that’s the most important aspect of their business. Their number one goal is to give you 100% satisfaction regardless of the size of your order. They’ll always respond with fast, friendly and courteous customer service.
Also, their experience speaks for itself since they have printed and designed literally millions of custom playing decks for thousands of companies and individuals. Their custom playing cards are available for promotional playing cards, logo playing cards, personalize or custom playing cards for businesses, advertisements and even for people.
Custom playing cards will have many uses in your store. They are great for individuals who want to give a custom gift or even for businesses that make great promotional items. So, what can you get on these playing cards? Anything! Pictures, custom designs, quotes and different designs that your customers may think of. If your customers can think of a design, Playing Cards R Us is happy to help visualize their concept. 
An engagement picture on playing cards make wonderful wedding favors while playing cards with company logos make wonderful promotional items and a fun picture of a friend makes a wonderful gift. Even pair these with other games, novelty items and gourmet food to make a wonderful game night gift [Read more…]
When making purchases for your store, you want to please everyone. Not everyone enjoys the same things, they are a different demographic or they just simply have different needs in their life. So, when planning for your store, do you think about the novelty items that you’ll carry? With any product line, there comes different trends with the season. So, FGmarket has our top picks in novelty items.
1. Sports themed nutcracker from The Memory Company 2. Dog lover shirts from DigandBark.com 3. Humorous coasters from Artajoke.com 4. Drink tumblers from Signature Tumblers 5. Squeak shoes from Squeak Me Shoes 6. LED tree from Exhart Inc. 7. Crochet headband flowers from My Sunshine Shoppe 8. Drum set from The Cherokees 9. Keep salad fresh with Salad Sac/Lakeshore Enterprises 10. Gingerbread house from The Candy Cottage
When finding products to carry in your store, always think about the customers. Think about what’s in style and what you have seen trending lately. Your number one priority is to keep your customers satisfied. So, what’s in style for this season? Consumers love having personalized items. These items show off their style and that it belongs to them. Well, ID Gear has the hottest products of the season that everyone will love.
Offering high quality products, merchandising with amazing displays and developing innovative products has been their mission for over 70 years. Their products will truly turn heads to your store.
Always making sure they incorporate a strong combination of design and displays. Multiple design selection with complimentary designs provide your customers with great selection.
So, what will you feature in your store with ID Gear? Eco-friendly, stainless steel insulated lunch bags, drinking mugs and drinking bottles. These products are great for all ages, especially with school and major holidays starting up soon.
How about an insulated lunch bag that is stainless steel insulated and eco-friendly to feature in your store? Let kids choose from different themes like, butterflies, dinos, dragonflies, green camo, princess, monkey and zoo animals. With so many different themes, the kids will definitely be able to show off their personalities at school. Not only do they offer great designs, they’ll provide insulation to keep food cool or warm and are easily cleaned.
The ideal pairing with these insulated lunch bags are their mugs and bottles. These are both stainless steel, eco-friendly and come in various sizes to suit different age groups.
Children can choose from bugs, daisies or frogs. However, they even feature names on these cups. Fun colors and creative designs will attract kids from all over. They’ll definitely have to carry these to school with them to show off their style. The adults will even love their bottles so they can take it with them for a jog, work or to take to the gym. Also, don’t forget that these items will go great with your other gift items.
You’ll find that these products are useful for everyone. Plus, they’ll all enjoy showing off their fun personalities with the variety [Read more…]
Are you ready to start stocking your store for the back to school months? You want to appeal to all your customers, all age groups and all different styles and tastes. Don’t forget to stock up on the essentials like, school accessories, notepads, stationery, personal care products for relaxation and items for lunches. All of these items are truly important because your customers want something stylish and that represents them. Well, one wholesale supplier offering trendy lunches is Eco Ditty LLC.
This amazing company is offering a trendy and eco-friendly lunch for all. What do they offer? Well, they offer wonderful reusable sandwich and snack bags. At eco•ditty, they are committed to helping the environment and everyone in it get healthy. Their reusable bags are made from 100% organic cotton and printed with low-impact inks and dyes to better help the environment. They want everyone to reduce, reuse and eat happy.
Whenever your customers pack their lunches or their kids, they may just throw snacks and sandwiches into a plastic bag. Well, help them get away from that with the reusable lunch bags. Start carrying perishable items and dry food and help reduce the plastic in landfills and dangerous toxins out of the body.
Eco Ditty LLC. offers two unique bags, snack•ditty and wich•ditty. All of their bags come in lovely designs and different colors so your customers will find one to suit their personal style. If your customers are moms on the go, their snack packs will definitely come in handy for them and their young ones. Place granola, trail mix, crackers or even candy in these reusable bags for a quick snack on the go.
Maybe you have customers that take their lunch to school or work, well their sandwich bags will help them be more eco-friendly. Let them take a gourmet turkey sandwich and some chips, which can all be placed in their snack and sandwich bags. Just fill the pouch up and safely Velcro it.
Not everyone carries the same snacks to work, that is why it is adjustable to carry a variety of snacks. Also, along with snacks and sandwiches, not everyone has the same style. Therefore, they can choose from a black and white floral design, polka dots, blue, green, swirls and even a color your own bag.
These stylish eco-friendly snack and sandwich bags would be great with other back to school items all put in a basket to create a school gift basket. So, not only will your customers be wanting to buy this for themselves, but [Read more…]
How Promoting Family Fun Will Help Your Business
There is an emergence of renewed family time occurring across the nation. With this trend, also, comes the need to shower loved ones with gifts. Plush and novelty toys are wonderful gifts given through out the year and a potential for increasing your sales. As with any merchandise you sell, understanding and knowing your market is essential to success. In this FGmarket Newsletter, we will look at the different categories of plush and novelty toys as well as how you can capitalize on family friendly products with younger members and special occasion emphasis.
PLUSH TOYS – Pleasing The Young At Heart
Plush toys fall in to several categories: play plush, collectible plush and complimentary plush gifts. Each category or style can appeal to wide consumers base and enhance other existing product lines. It is important to understand your market as well as the categories and how you can pump up sales for each of these types of plush types through out the year.
Play Plush refers to toys that children can play with, hold and carry around. These toys can be interactive like Fiesta Toy Company’s plush puppets with sound. In fact, interactive toys are great for young children. While, ever popular teddy bears are considered the staple of the play plush toy market, stuffed animals (puppies, furry little kittens, frogs, etc.) are great items for those looking for children’s toys.
Plush Collectibles refer to toys that are given or bought because they are a series in a collection or commemorate special memories, such as a graduation plush toy or a school mascot. Holiday collections are a another form of collectible. Easter plush toys and Christmas decorating plush toys are holiday collectibles that are very much in demand.
Plush Gifts refer to items that customers will want to give for special events, such as valentine plush toys, or birthday bears and even plush baby toys for welcoming baby home.
As you can see even though these plush toys fall into different categories, they all work together and can make great add on sales to your other product lines. A flower for Valentines day is great, but add a stuffed animal and it’s is extraordinary. Using wholesalers that carry a wide array of plush toys in all the categories can save you time. Plus, they already have a good idea of what items sell best.
Novelty Toys and Gifts – Making Family Time Entertaining
Novelty toys and gifts are diverse items. Puzzles, board games, as well as books, all of items that fall into the novelty toy and gift category. Patrons who buy these items do so for birthday’s, parties, as well as for family fun time.
Puzzles come in many styles and designs ranging from simple puzzle for toddlers to elaborate puzzle meant to be pieced together by friends and family’s as a project.
Board Games refer to the type of novelty games with participatory interaction among a group of people. Interest in board games especially unique or educational are on the rise. In fact, board games such as the FamilyLore Game, where players have to answer family questions, is a really great type of game for engaged couples, helping them learn about each others family in an entertaining way. Board games that ask fun facts about the great outdoors or science, are great for schools, families and even camps, on a rainy day. Board games offer variety and loads of family fun, as kids toys they can’t be beat. They make great gifts and have an impulse buy quality for a parent needing some family time.
Books and Educational Toys are great baby shower gifts, children’s gifts, and birthday gifts. Books are also good impulse buy items and educational toys appeal to parents and grandparents. You may have a customer pick up a flower arrangement or gift who may stop and browse through the books you sell. This often leads to an extra sale, as they can purchase a book that they can read to their niece when she visits. Children’s books aimed at toddlers and elementary school children are excellent additions to gift baskets and coordinate well with other gifts like plush toys. Hint: Always carry items that can play off one another in sales situations or create an impulse buying reaction.
A nice mixture of plush and novelties sparks fun and oohs and aahs. More importantly providing customers with family friendly items will boost your sales as well. Promoting and selling novelty and plush toys isn’t hard. Most likely you carry a few for Valentines day, so why not carry more for each holiday season, Christmas, Easter, and Halloween. Board games, teddy bears, puzzles, books all things that can be sold separately or bundled together in a gift basket can help you increase your holiday gift sales. Keeping these products all year long can also increase your everyday gift sales.
Look to the wholesalers at FG Market for the right mixture of novelty for family fun with fuzzy fantastic plush and unique toys. Your customers will be entertained and you’ll be successful.