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Our new blog is where we now post all of the "buzz" going on at MyWares.com.

• Wholesale products
• Deals, sales and events
• Thoughts and "straight talk" on the gift and stationery industry
• Marketing advice for retailers
• and more!

Bookmark it! http://www.wholesaleandreatilnews.blogspot.com

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Tips and Media Instructions for Promoting your Black Friday Sale

Our PR team has offered up these tips and media instructions for promoting your Black Friday Sale locally:

Call your newspaper and TV station's newsroom and find out which reporter is going to do the traditional Black Friday shopping feature. Get phone number or e-mail and pitch that reporter first.  If this reporter is interested great. If not, ask whom the best person would be.

If there is no reporter covering Black Friday, or is not interested, send the release to:

1. Features desk
   
2. Business desk
   
3. The Metro news desk
   
4. Anyone who writes about shopping or budget living
   
5. The news desk of your local TV stations
   
6. Many newspapers will allow readers to submit news. Search for that feature on the newspaper's Web site, register and upload. Sometimes there is a day's lag time.
   

Follow up by Wednesday and feel free to call the stations/papers on Friday if you haven't gotten any word, as someone likely will be there doing the must-do Black Friday story.

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Send your release to local media, national media contacts, post to free sites and PR Web. Don't forget to send it to friends, post it to Facebook, Twitter it and send it to bloggers who are devoted to local and national shopping.

Good luck!

If you want to be part of ShopJaneShop's 30% off - 4 Days Only national sale event, click here for details. We have already written your Black Friday press release for you, just fill in the blanks.

Budgets are tight, big box retailers are marketing like crazy. Get customers in your shop on Friday. Here's How!

 Participate in  SHOP, SHARE & SAVE 30% off Sale Event

Here’s our plan to help you market this week locally and on the web. 

MyWares.com proudly announces ShopJaneShop.com, a new section of our website that promotes brick-n-mortar and online shops.  2 powerful websites have joined together to create a great site!

To celebrate the kickoff of ShopJaneShop.com, we are promoting a 4-day National Sales Event called, ”Shop, Share & Save”.  This will start on Friday, November 28 for everyone on our extensive mailing list, in local and national press releases, on our website, blog and via Twitter.  We want your shop to be part of it. 

Why do this?  The big boxes are discounting big and marketing hard.  Their flyers, catalogs and emails already crowd every inbox.  In this tough economic time, your bottom line needs your customers business on the biggest shopping days of the year.  We believe that banding together to market our businesses is the best way to get big results.

 Here’s how it works:

You agree to offer 30% discounts during the 4 day event. 

You decide what's for sale –Just some items or everything in your shop.

 How much does it cost…only $20.00!  This will include your shop in this event and list your product or shop on ShopJaneShop.com from Nov. 28 – Feb. 28, 2009.  We will email you a bill. 

Here’s what you need to do:

• Complete the shop application available for download, click here
  
• Email or fax back to us ASAP
  
• Email:  info@shopjaneshop.com
  
• Fax: 920.731.9340
  
• Download the coupon, email or hand it out to your customers
  
• Tell your family, friends, customers and clients about the event 
  

We will  provide a fill in the blank press release that you can send to your local newspaper, radio and TV reporters to announce your participation in this national event. 

We know if you all participate (over 6,000) strong, this will be a successful shopping event for all involved.  As small business owners ourselves who have joined together to cross promote for better results, we know that power in numbers can achieve amazing results.

Wholesale and Retail News

Check out our new blog, MyWares.com Shop & Product News at www.wholesaleandretailnews.blogspot.com to read the latest news from MyWares.com Sellers and Retailers.

Retailers are Raving Fans of MyWares.com!

Thanks to all of you who have shared your thoughts about the website with us. We appreciate your feedback. Stephanie and I are working every day to get the word out there to make it easy for all of you to connect and share your news.

“It is about time something like this (MyWares) was offered to our industry. Did you know there are over 40 tradeshows now thru July? Leaving my business for a few days to travel to the shows is tough enough, but traveling to all of the tradeshows is impossible."

"This is the best idea ever! Being a new, small business, it's difficult to get to all of the tradeshows. I think this is going to be great for me."

"MyWares.com is a great idea. Bravo!"

"Everyone gets the same things and it is so much work to find new and different products. I'm excited to see what MyWares.com offers. Thank you MyWares for making my job easier and more fun!”

Selling Wholesale? Why You Need Wholesale Line Sheets and Order Forms

The more info you can get to Retailers the better. I believe a wholesale
line sheet and wholesale order form is a must. Catalogs are great but if
your product line changes quickly, design and printing can be costly. Line sheets
are a great answer to this because you can add a new product quickly to your
current line without huge expense.

If you and the Retailer know all the facts up front, no questions or
assumptions from either party can arise.

Need tips on creating wholesale line sheets and order forms? We'd love to share a few samples with you and our thoughts on what info you need to offer in your wholesale line sheet and order form.

Click here for your copy of our WHOLESALE 101 checklist filled with valuable tips and samples you can copy.

Or visit our HOW-TO category in the RESOURCE section for more valuable wholesale selling advice.