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Onboarding Emails And How They Can Help Retain Customers

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Have you ever sent an email to a new customer reminding them of the product or service they’ve purchased, and how they can get started using it?

What about an email that asks a new customer to check out your social media accounts or your blog?

These are examples of onboarding emails. Onboarding is the process of following up with a customer after they purchase something from you in order to give them an answer to their question, “what’s next?” It also helps get your customers familiarized with your products and services.

For example, if I’m a software company, and you’ve just purchased a new bookkeeping program from me, you’re probably going to either A) immediately start using the program as intended or B) forget about it for awhile, come back to it later when you’re not as busy, and struggle to know where to even begin using it. Most people are going to do scenario B in this illustration.

In scenario B, you have a prime opportunity to send an email to their inbox, reminding them to do something simple, such as activating their service, viewing the online Help Guide for the program, contacting you for questions, etc.

Onboarding through emails can accomplish a number of goals quickly and efficiently for your business. Instead of tying up phone lines, or having to take time to respond to emailed questions, you can simply setup an automated email that sends out to all your new customers whenever you are given their email address.

Want to promote your social media accounts or your blog? There’s an email for that! You can even send new customers an overview type email of your business and include all the places they can find you online (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.)

Are you a website design company that needs to get your customers to submit important information to you so you can finish building a website? Send an email that reminds your new customers to send these things to you.

Don’t be pushy about it, but let them know that this info is important to helping you finish their website in a timely fashion.

Are you a wholesale supplier working in a B2B relationship with another company? Do you send out invoices each month reminding buyers to submit their payments to you? You can use an onboarding email with a new customer to get them to easily setup an online account with you, to make their payment process easy and efficient.

For example, lots of companies now have an Auto Pay system to make paying for products and services easy and always on time. You can use an onboarding email to let new customers know that they can easily set up Auto Pay online by clicking on a link that you include in the email.

Onboarding emails help to show your customers that you’re invested in them and that they’re not just a way for you to make a profit. It’s a great way to retain customers and keep them from switching to a company that could be your competitor.

There’s no shortage of ways that you can use an onboarding email to streamline your work flow, and help your customers out in the process, as well!

Responding To Your Reviews Is The Easiest Way To Gain Online Credibility

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How often do you reply to the reviews you get online? Do you only reply to the positive reviews, or do you try to respond to the negative ones as well?

Believe it or not, replying to the reviews you receive, whether they’re positive, negative, or pretty neutral, is a great way to boost your online credibility and even your search engine rankings!

Here’s how it works: whenever you receive a review online, whether it’s on Google, your website, through your FGmarket vendor profile page, or somewhere else, that review is public information. Anyone who visits the reviews section of your company on Google, your website, etc. can see those reviews, and they can see whether or not you acknowledged the reviews.

If I happen to go to your Google reviews and see that you have a lot of reviews, a mix of both positive and negative, but you haven’t responded to any of your customer’s reviews, I might think twice before deciding to buy from you.

That’s because when customers see you have responded to your reviews, however bad they may be, it shows that you are paying attention to what your customers are saying. It shows that you can take criticism of your business, learn from your mistake, and strive to correct the error in the future.

In fact, according to ReviewTrackers.com, 51.7 percent of customers expect a response to their review in seven days or less.

Not only is responding to online reviews a good strategy for building customer trust, it is also one of the ways you can improve your Google rankings.

One of the ways Google knows how to boost some websites in search results over others is how frequently you get and respond to your Google reviews.

According to a recent survey of SEO experts by Chat Meter, 13% of Google local ranking results are determined by reviews and responses to those reviews. That might not seem like much, especially when you consider more important players in the SEO game, such as keywords and mobile optimization, but every little bit counts when it comes to trying to improve your Google search ranking.

Responding to reviews can improve not only the trust between you and your customers, a key factor in the buying cycle, but it can also improve your SEO to get more people to your website!

Don’t be afraid to respond to your online review. It can help your business out in a big way.

Encourage Reviews With These Easy Steps

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Reviews are important for maintaining customer satisfaction and improving the trust between you and your customers. Not only that, they can also improve your SEO rankings because the big boss in charge of searches, aka Google, pays attention to the reviews you receive, especially through your Google Business listing.

Sometimes, however, it’s hard to get customers to actually leave reviews for your business (well, that is, until they have a negative review to give out. Then, they’re more than happy to tell you how they feel).

Do you need some assistance with getting your customers to leave your more reviews? Here are a few simple things you can do right now to encourage more customer reviews.

Ask For Reviews

The simplest thing you could ever do is just ask people to leave you reviews.

A lot of businesses try everything under the Sun to get people to leave reviews, but they always manage to skip over the easiest strategy: asking for a review.

You can ask for reviews in a ton of different ways: through email, social media, marketing material, or in person.

Simply asking someone for a review is often all you need to do. Many times, customers don’t even know how or where to leave you a review, or that they even have the option to do so.

Make them aware of how important it is to you and your business for them to leave you a review.

Give Them A Reason

Why should someone leave you a review? Aside from the obvious benefits that it gives your business, people need to know why they should even put in the effort to do so.

A lot of businesses have integrated some type of reward for customers who leave them reviews, such as discount codes or free products.

Give your customers a reason to leave you a review, and encourage them with freebies and discounts that give value to the effort they have to put in for leaving a review.

Respond To Reviews

Do you respond to your reviews? No, I’m not just talking about the positive reviews that you receive; those are easy to respond to. I’m talking about ALL of your reviews, both positive and negative.

Responding to reviews gives your business credibility online, and can help boost your SEO rankings in the eyes of Google. Yes, even responding to negative reviews is beneficial to your company.

Remember, however, when you respond to negative reviews, do it in a way that’s both professional and respectful. Never get into a fight with a customer that has left you a negative review, and don’t try to defend yourself over small issues, like a shipping mistake or less than perfect customer service. You can’t please everyone all the time. Remember that when it comes to the reviews you get.

Reviews are extremely beneficial to your perceived integrity and reliability. Make sure you’re getting reviews from customers to not only improve your brand awareness and trust, but also your SEO rankings!

How To Effectively Market Your Brand On Instagram

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Instagram is one of the fastest growing social media platforms on the internet today. What started out as a simple photo editing app in the early ’10s has evolved into a full-fledged photo-sharing social platform that billions of people around the world use every day.

With its popularity online steadily growing, Instagram is rich with marketing opportunities that you should be taking advantage of every day.

Are you looking for some easy to learn tips on how to effectively market your business on Instagram? We’ve got four simple things that you could be doing right now to make your business stand out from your competition.

Visually Appealing

What kind of photos are you posting on your Instagram? Are they visually appealing photos, full of action and vivid colors, or are they bland, uninteresting, and low quality?

Having good, visually exciting photos is the first step in attracting customers to your Instagram profile and, more importantly, what you’re selling.

Make sure your photos are:

  • High-quality – low-quality photos tend to convey laziness to your customers and make your company look bad.
  • Interesting – find a subject that conveys excitement and worth to your customers. A picture of just your product is boring; a picture of your product being used, or placed in an interesting environment, is exciting.
  • Vivid – You want your pictures to jump out and grab people’s interests. You want their eyes to stay on your post, instead of mindlessly scrolling by. That’s why bright, vivid pictures are leagues better than dim and dull photos.

Hashtag Properly

Are you hashtagging on all of your Instagram posts? It’s easy to forget this simple, but handy tool for tagging your photos, but it’s extremely helpful for getting new followers to find your page.

Hashtags, or the # symbol that you see on posts followed by words, are used to group photos of similar interests together in one place. When you hashtag something like #ecofriendly, your post will be grouped together with all the other posts that used that particular hashtag.

And people routinely search for posts on Instagram that use certain hashtags and keywords. It’s how a lot of accounts are discovered.

Make sure you’re using hashtags in every post, and always make them relevant to what you’re posting about.

Engage With Followers

Are you engaging with your followers in a meaningful way?

Social media is named that for a reason; it’s supposed to be a place where you can socialize with other users online, and form relationships.

If you get a positive comment on one of your posts, reply to that comment with a “thank you!” or something else that shows appreciation. Don’t be afraid of critical comments, either. Respond to them in a professional manner, to show your customers that you are listening to their critiques.

Post At The Right Times

Finally, you need to make sure you’re posting on Instagram at the right times. What are the right times, though?

Every social media platform is different, but for the most part, posting between 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. (when people are on their lunch break) and 7 – 9 p.m. (around the time when people are home relaxing) are the best times to post on Instagram.

Your results for posting during these times will vary, of course, depending on how often your followers are checking Instagram, but for the most part, these posting times are good rules to follow.

Instagram is a wonderful marketing tool, if you know how to properly utilize it.

Practice these four tips and see how your Instagram presence improves and grows.

Build Up Your Facebook Presence With These Simple Tips

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Facebook can be a great marketing tool; it’s not just for sharing cute pics of your dog and arguing about politics anymore.

But like any marketing tool, if you aren’t including good information and updating it to fit the needs of your customers, then it’s useless to you.

It can be easy to forget to manage your  Facebook page with everything else going on during the day. However, it will only take a little bit of time and effort to make these important changes to your Facebook page strategy.

Here are a few simple tips you can use to boost your Facebook page, which will lead to a better overall experience for your customers, and help to boost your online reputation.

Update Your Info

Do you keep the info on your Facebook profile always up-to-date and accurate? When’s the last time you checked it to make sure it still accurately tells customers what your business is about?

A lot of us will either write a quick bio when we first setup the Facebook Page and never look at it again, or skip the bio altogether!

Both of these options, however, are not good for your Facebook Page. Your About tab of your profile is where all the most relevant info to your customers is housed. Everything from contact info to your company’s Story, to your Mission statement and the products you offer, are located in the About section of your profile.

Go back over this information regularly to ensure that customers are getting the best information about your business. Having good info reduces customer questions about simple things, and it also increases the trustworthiness of your company.

Make It Look Good

What have you done to make your profile look pleasing to visitors?

One easy way to spruce up your page is to make sure you have a good profile picture and a cover photo. Many people assume that the profile pic needs to be a picture of their products, or maybe even themselves. But if you’re a business with a professional Facebook Page, you need to make your profile picture your business’s logo.

Similarly, you need to always make sure you have a cover photo for your Page. A cover photo is a photo that occupies the space at the top of your Facebook Page. It allows you to upload a much larger photo to your Page, and it’s a great place to show off some of your awesome products.

Take a look at our Facebook Page for an example of how you can use the cover photo section of your Page.

Regular Posts

How often are you posting on your Facebook Page? You need to make sure you are regularly posting on your page to keep your customers interested and aware of your brand.

As a general rule for Facebook, it’s best to post at least 1 or 2 times per day during the week, and maybe once for the entire weekend. That’s because people tend to get on Facebook, scroll through their news feed a bit, and then get off. The way Facebook’s news feed algorithm works, it is going to show you the most interesting or relevant posts for your first, which means that you have a good chance of showing up at the top of a customer’s news feed if they interact with you a lot.

You don’t want to overwhelm people with too many posts. If all they are seeing are your posts clogging up their feed, they are more likely to Unlike your Page or Unfollow you so they don’t see your posts.

Share It

Last, but certainly not least, you need to share your Facebook Page! What good is having a social media page if no one knows it exists?

Just like you share your contact information and, hopefully, your URL with all of your customers on any piece of marketing material, you also need to share your Facebook Page with them.

Do you have a website? Place a button link to your Facebook Page on it! You need to be promoting all of your social media accounts, not just your Facebook Page, on anything you are showing customers.

Social media can be a great way to get people to your website and buying your products or services.

Facebook is a great way to market your business online. Don’t be afraid to use the platform that over 1 billion people worldwide are using each and every day. Just use these four simple tips to make sure you’re getting all you can get out of your Facebook Page.

How To Use Big Cultural Events To Promote Your Business

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How closely do you follow world news and big cultural events? Are you paying attention to the Super Bowl each year or that new TV show that absolutely everyone is watching?

These are huge marketing opportunities for your business and can increase your brand awareness exponentially if you use these events in smart ways.

Since the rise of social media in the 21st century, brands have found ways to take huge cultural events, create hashtags out of them, and market their business to people across the world all at once.

Even without using social media, there are great ways to market yourself to the world and spread the good news about your awesome brand.

Let’s take a look at a few ways some of the biggest brands out there are taking events, and spinning them to their advantage.

Oreo – Super Bowl power outage

During Super Bowl XLVII in February 2013, the Baltimore Ravens played the San Francisco 49ers for bragging rights to the best team in the NFL that season. The Ravens won with a final score of 34 – 31, but the winner of the game wasn’t the biggest talking point of the Super Bowl that year. It was the power outage that lasted for 34 long, awkward minutes.

But, like every other major event that happens in the world, social savvy brands took this opportunity to market their products on Twitter, Facebook, and more.

One of the best examples of a brand taking advantage of the blackout was Oreo, who used this clever tweet to remind people to, what else, eat some delicious Oreos.

Hundreds of other brands jumped in as well, because with the game no longer happening, what else were people going to do besides scroll through their social feeds for some entertainment?

LEGO – #TheDress

Ugh, remember The Dress? You know, the viral picture of the dual-colored, striped dress that, for a few interesting days in 2015, people almost lost their minds over?

Some people saw the dress as blue and black, while others saw white and gold. It all came down to science and the way the cones in our eyes work to receive and process light that enters through them, but most people were only interested in yelling at their friends, family, and coworkers over what colors they saw, and how unbelievable it was that not everyone saw the dress as the same colors (it was blue and black, by the way, and don’t ever try to convince me otherwise).

Tons of brands took advantage of this strange but funny phenomenon, and took to Twitter with the hashtag #TheDress and either #BlueAndBlack or #WhiteAndGold to voice their opinions on this one simple dress.

LEGO, the toy company that manufacturers colored building bricks for kids and adults alike, had the most clever take on the #TheDress debate. They cleverly weaved the viral picture with their own products to create a tweet that captured lots of attention online and bring brand awareness to their company.

American Paper Optics LLC – Solar Eclipse

Have you heard about the upcoming total solar eclipse that’s going to be visible for many U.S. residents? If not, there’s still time to prepare!

The big event happens on Aug. 21, 2017, and can be seen by most people across North America, but in certain lucky areas of the country, it will be even more visible.

American Paper Optics, LLC of Tennessee have been preparing for this event for a long time. Why, you ask, would a Tennessee company be so concerned with an event that takes place in space, miles, and miles away from their store? Well, it just so happens that American Paper Optics, LLC makes some of the only pairs of commercially-available eclipse glasses on the market.

Their Eclipse Glasses are an inexpensive, and safe, way to view the upcoming total solar eclipse, an event that takes place once in a lifetime for many people.

American Paper Optics has been featured in national media outlets promoting their Eclipse Glasses, and are taking full advantage of this amazing, rare event to promote their products!

Don’t be afraid to take big cultural events, and spin them into a marketing advantage for your business and your brand!

How to Use SEO Data To Construct Your Social Media Strategy

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SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is critical to having a successful website. Why? To put it simply, everything online revolves around it and the search engines that are used to help people find your website.

You might know a thing or two about SEO, but are you someone who has learned to apply your SEO know-how to your social media strategy?

SEO and social media go hand-in-hand, and if you’re looking to break through the muddled mess of websites that now exist on the internet, we’ve got a few tips to help you increase your social media presence by understanding SEO.

Keywords

You already know how keywords help to optimize the SEO of your website but are you also paying attention to the keywords that you and your customers use on social media?

Have you ever done a keyword search on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook to find the topics that are trending? More than that, have you looked into what people are saying about you and your company?

There are lots of tools out there, like Mention and Google Alerts, that can help you see what other people are saying about you. However, if you don’t want to setup an automated system, a quick search for certain keywords on a social media platform can give you an idea of what people are talking about, as well.

When you see what people are saying about your company, you can improve your message. And when you see what topics people are interested in hearing about, you can craft your brand and your social media messaging around that topic.

Insights

Are you checking your social media insights to see which posts are getting the most interactions, clicks, likes, and shares? These are key data points that you should be paying attention to if you want to grow your online presence.

A lot of the success behind your high-ranking posts relies on how well you’re optimizing those posts to get it in front of users’ eyes.

You can apply specific keywords to posts to make them perform better, or you can read up on Feed Algorithms, to see how to game the system, and get your posts in front of more users. Each social media platform has its own way of prioritizing posts to users, so see which strategy works best for each platform.

Once you understand your Insights, you can begin focusing on promoting those posts that are performing better than others. Before you know it, you’ll see your post reach and interaction numbers start to climb.

Analytics

Google Analytics can be your best friend if you’re trying to figure out how to boost traffic to your website and your social media accounts.

Do you know which pages of your website get the most page views, or have the lowest bounce rate? What about conversion rates?

When you pay attention to your website analytics, like the ones that Google can provide for you, it’s easier to see what’s working and what isn’t.

You can take the information you gather from your website analytics, and use that info to push high-performing content to your social media accounts.

It’s important to learn how SEO data and social media strategy work together to positively impact your business.

How To Write Amazing Product Descriptions That Will Earn You More Business

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Are you writing your product descriptions in a way that pushes customers to go through the steps in the buying cycle that lead to repeat business? Or are you just phoning in, thinking that product descriptions don’t really matter as much as people say they do?

Well, we’re here to tell you about your product descriptions and why they are so important to progressing customers into the phase of the buying cycle where they actually make a purchase on your website. Not only are product descriptions good for persuading customers, they are also important when it comes to your websites SEO (search engine optimization). We’ll briefly discuss that subject in today’s blog post as well.

Let’s get to it!

Buyer Persuasion

Have you ever been shopping online, saw a cute outfit or attractive looking suit, and bought it without even thinking? While some of us may have, others are more inclined to ask questions first. We need to the product to convince us that we need it. That’s where good product descriptions come in.

In the buying cycle, there are a number of stages that the customer has to go through. Usually, the buying cycle goes through these steps: awareness of needs, research of products, comparison of products, purchase, and then retention. Product descriptions help with steps two and three and ultimately lead to step four, purchasing.

Details

Give me the deets! Customers are curious, and many times, they’re looking at your product descriptions to see things like: where the product was made; if it’s organic or natural; if it’s clothing, what material it’s made from, if the sizes run bigger or smaller than average, etc.

Adding accurate details of your products gives your customers a better understanding of how exactly their money is being spent. After all, an online store might be more convenient, but you can’t test out products and examine them up close like you’d be able to do at a brick and mortar store.

Be clear, be concise, and be exciting with your product descriptions.

Improved SEO

Do you know about Search Engine Optimization? One of the key components of improving your SEO is using keywords on your website that are related to your industry or business. Those keywords help search engines, like Google, pull up your website when people search for things online, and they can help your website “rank” higher than other websites in search results.

When writing product descriptions, keep in mind specific keywords that you can use to boost the search engine ranking of your products. For example, if you’re a boutique or another type of online retail store, you’ll want to include descriptive words for your products, such as the color and type of clothing, the materials used to make it, where it was made (Made in the USA), etc. These words help people find your store when they search for things like “dresses made in the USA near me.”

Images can also be optimized for keywords (in the meta information and alt tags), but it’s really the content of your web page that helps to rank it higher in search engine results.

Make sure you’re paying attention to how you write your product descriptions. They’re more helpful to your online business than you might think.

How To Hide Spammy or Inappropriate Comments On Instagram

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Have you ever received a comment on an Instagram post that seemed either spammy or wildly inappropriate? If you have a public Instagram account (which, as a business, you definitely should have), then you know how much of a problem inappropriate comments can be on Instagram.

Luckily, there’s a solution to this oftentimes awkward problem.

Recently, Instagram introduced a new feature that aims to curb or completely eliminate the growing trend of uninvited inappropriate comments and offensive phrases on posts.

Inappropriate comments can really tarnish the professional look of your business. Sometimes, these comments can have links to other accounts that promote nudity or pornography, which is definitely a bad look for your business if you’re trying to appear clean and friendly.

It only takes a few steps to setup this filter, and we’ll walk you through how to do it in today’s blog post.

Options

To access the comment filter, you’ll first need to go to the Options section of your Instagram app. If you’re using an iOS device (iPhone, iPad) the options are indicated by a gear icon. For Android users, the options are three vertical dots stacked on top of one another.

Once you’re in your app options, scroll down until you see the Settings section, and then click on Comments.

This is where you’ll find a few options for filtering out inappropriate comments.

Default Keywords

Instagram automatically filters out certain words that are deemed inappropriate by a majority of the population. These include curse words, references to private body parts, and more. Unfortunately, Instagram does not list which words the default filtering includes, but it will block most things deemed offensive by a majority of the population.

All you need to do to block the default keywords is tap the button next to Hide Inappropriate Comments, and then click Done.

Custom Keywords

Need to set up custom keywords to block in your comments? Instagram allows you to do that as well.

If you don’t think that the default keywords will do the job, you can use the next area of the Comments settings to enter certain words or phrases that you also want to block from showing in your post comments.

Just type out the words you want to be blocked by Instagram, using a comma to separate each word, and then click the Done button.

Deleting Comments

Sometimes, inappropriate just fall through the cracks of the filter and end up on your posts anyway. If this happens, don’t worry; you can still get rid of the comments by manually deleting them.

Now, keep in mind, I am not talking about negative comments on your posts. You should never delete a customer’s critical comment, even if it does speak poorly about you. However, if they use inappropriate language in their comment, that does give you ground to delete the comment.

If you would like to delete a comment on a post, it’s very simple. Just go to the post in question, and click on the bubble shaped Comments button, like you’re going to leave a comment on a post (located in-between the heart and paper airplane icons underneath the post).

Hold down on the screen where the inappropriate comment is located, and then click the trash can icon at the top of the screen.

That’s it! The comment has been deleted, no questions asked.

Reporting Comments

Reporting a comment is as simple as deleting one. You’ll go to the comment on your post and long press on it, just like you did when deleting a comment.

But, instead of pressing the trash can icon, you’ll press the octagon with the ! in the center of it.

Instagram will ask you why you are wanting to report the comment, and you can select either Spam or Scam, or Abusive Content.

Reporting is great for not only getting the comment off of your post but also letting Instagram know that the user who posted the comment is improperly using Instagram and going against its Terms of Use.

That’s it, really. Instagram makes it very easy for users to protect against unwanted and unnecessary comments. Protect your brand and your customers from dangerous spam accounts, and inappropriate comments by using the settings available to you in the Instagram app.

5 Ways To Get More Wholesale Sales

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As a wholesaler, you’re always looking to work with more retailers to get your wonderful products into their stores, and in turn, into the hands of happy consumers.

Whether you’ve been in the wholesale game for years, or your brand new to the experience, we’ve got five great tips that can help you revitalize your wholesale strategy, and get more wholesale sales.

Customer Service

Treating your customers right is crucial to gaining their trust and their business. When you’re a wholesaler, your customer service is aimed at buyers and retailers, and not your typical shopper.

Be sure to give buyers of your wholesale products the respect and patience that you would expect if you were on their side of the conversation.

Customer service is the first great step in earning yourself more wholesale business.

Great Deals

You know what everyone loves? A great deal.

I love shopping online, and getting special coupon codes, BOGO offers, and free gifts when I make a purchase.

You can implement the same strategy for your wholesale business. Whenever you’re partnering with a new retailer, give them a special discount to sweeten the deal, such as a new partnership discount, or a one-time offer.

Customers love incentives, and so will retailers.

Create Great Marketing Material

Are you creating engaging marketing materials that capture the attention of retailers looking to partner with you?

Are you giving them enough reason to choose to buy your products over your competitors?

Many times, we get into the routine of doing the same type of emails and advertisements, or we get lazy with our social media presence.

If you want to be a successful wholesaler, you can’t fall into the trap of the status quo.

Marketing yourself is all about creating something that tells customers what you’re trying to sell them, while at the same time making it interesting enough that they won’t look over what you’re trying to sell.

Focus on new ideas for marketing yourself, and show buyers why your product is the right fit for them.

Referral Programs

Have you ever thought about setting up a referral program for businesses that mention you to their friends?

Referral programs have been proven to work in many retail industries, and they can be used for anything from free offers or great discounts.

For a wholesale referral program, you could offer your customers who refer you a discounted price for their wholesale purchases for a certain amount of time (1 month, 6 months, 1 year, etc.)

These kinds of programs work to give your loyal customers more reason to stay with you, and they also help spread the word about your great business.

Reach Out

Local advertising and media relations are sometimes the best way to broadcast to people that, “Hey! I’m out here, and I want to partner with you to sell my products in your store.”

Reach out to local newspapers to see if there’s a special features section of the newspaper where they do profiles on business owners. It’s a great way to reach the folks around you, who are sometimes your biggest buyers.

You can also see if you can shoot a commercial to be aired on local TV stations, as a way to advertise in your community.

It’s always a good idea to develop a business relationship with the people of influence that surround your community. Start locally, and then expand out from there.

Utilize these 5 tips for getting you more wholesale sales, and see how much your business can grow!