Just like marketing a garage sale

Just Like Marketing a Garage Sale

Anyone who’s started his or her own business (be it brick and mortar, online, even something as simple as garage sales on the weekend) will tell you that the most important aspect to keep your business going (and so you make profits) is marketing.

Starting out with something as simple as a garage sale, think about what types of marketing there are. Most often you’ll find sharpie-scribbled cardboard signs stapled to telephone poles with a big arrow pointing in the direction of your «business». Now, you might laugh and say that isn’t marketing, but in reality that’s fundamentally all there is to marketing. You have a product or service and you want people to know about it. Simple as that.

Continuing with the garage sale analogy, there are plenty of other ways you can market yourself. I’m sure you’ll tell your neighbors and friends. And maybe you’ll even post an ad in the PennySaver or on Craigslist. These are all forms of direct marketing.

Possibly the biggest factor to a garage sales success is its location. If you live in an apartment, you’re obviously very limited to how successful you can become. In an apartment complex there just isn’t very much room to display your goods. You can put up signs, tell your family and post bulletins, but they probably won’t do very much good if people can’t get to your business. Now, what if you lived on the corner house next to a main road? Granted, people don’t usually move their homes to have a garage sale (it’s usually the other way around), but this is another example of marketing; and it’s very direct.

Okay, so how else can you market and advertise your sale? Is there anything else you can do? Yep. There are still plenty of other things you can do. Your garage sale is going to top all others.

How about expansion? Talk to your neighbors and plan a group garage sale. Get your whole street involved and you’ll have turned your garage sale into an antique mall. Want to expand even more? Maybe you could start a website. Take pictures of everything and let people shop online and you can ship them their orders.

Now that you’re starting to get big, it’s time to get some press coverage. Call up your local newspaper and let them know what you’re doing on your street. That’s a free ad in the paper which means more customers and more profits.

By now you’ll have run out of things to sell, so it’s time to bring in a wholesaler. Look for companies that sell faux antiques and order in bulk. Give each house on your street its own product line. Build signs, decorate your lawn, put up twinkle lights and you’ll be a phenomenon.

Next up, hire a camera crew and record your own TV commercial. Play it locally first and then move it to cable stations. By now, you’ll have competitors. Other streets will want a piece of the pie. And now you’re back to square one. That’s what marketing is all about. Time to start something new!

Indian handicrafts exporters an exquisite collection

Indian Handicrafts Exporters An Exquisite Collection!

The largest segments of the Indian Economy is the textile industry. India is known for its handicrafts, bed covers, cushion cover, bed spread, decorative and hand embroidered table cloths and door mats and carpets are quite popular ones. People from across the world, buy textiles online such as embroidered bed cover, bed sheets, table cloths from Indian handicraft suppliers. These handicrafts are shipped world wide as they are in great demand across the world. Handicraft exporter show cases the handicraft products designed by local handicrafts makers and they and their products get popular this way. The exporter arranges for a quick delivery services. Thus these craftsmen get global recognition due to the exporter.

Home furnishings, jewellery, decorative items, table accessories, antique armoury, paintings, garden accessories, furniture, nautical instruments, garments, toys and dolls, home products and antiques, decorative lightings, kitchen ware and timers, clock etc. and the list is endless, you can find a volley of antique crafts and embroidered articles online. If you are a handicraft lover, then, you should look at the online range of Indian embroidered and hand made products.

Customer trends and needs vary. In order to boost the handicraft industry, exporters are constantly updating their products according to customer’s demands. And keeping the customer’s interest going, they always create some thing new every time, you click online to purchase.

The exporters of handicrafts are constantly updating their products according to customer trends to increase sales and boost the popularity of their hand woven products in the overseas domain. The enriched repertoire of Indian handicrafts has many miles to go and the handicrafts exporters can help considerably to walk down the miles.

Pottery made out of ceramic and clay can have beautiful designs carved on them. Such hand carved work is in great demand in America, Europe, West Asian countries. Other handicrafts include items made up of glass and ceramics, marble and stone crafts, jewelleries, terracotta products and leather crafts, earthenware, woodwork, sculpting, scarves, shawls, textiles, embroidered and knitted goods, zari items.

Online Searchable List of Indian Importers and Indian Importers offer you all the information you are looking out for right from your jewellery to decorative handicrafts etc. Searching it over the internet offers you a greater choice of products across various countries offering information about business to business marketplace for importers & exporters, manufacturers and suppliers. What ever you are looking out for, you can find it easily.

Keep your furniture safe even while on move

Keep Your Furniture Safe Even While On Move!

When planning to shift your house from one place to another can be a stressful time. Shifting places always need lot of organized planning. And to use furniture removal company helps relieve the stress, but how do you choose the right one among so many companies out there? Reading this article swill definitely prove helpful.

You would like to move to new house all by yourself without the help of these removal companies. But do not ever underestimate the amount of mental and physical stress it would take to move your belongings into your new home. It not just about packing boxes, it takes more than that.

And if you are moving for a long distance then by the time you reach your new home you will be very tired and unloading your boxes would be the last thing on your mind. At this time a good furniture removal company can save you all these stress. If you have many fragile or valuable possessions like antique furniture then the removal company takes all the pressure off your mind.

Compare before selection- When you know what your moving date is, then look for the quotes of various companies available. Never choose quickly the cheapest furniture removal company you come across. Always be sure of what you get for the price and what are the services included in it. There may be companies who will be able to give you an instant quote online. But there are companies who will want to see your belongings and then quote the price. So make sure to confirm the final quote before you book any removal company.

Be organized- If you plan to do the packing yourself then make sure you have enough boxes to pack your things. Pack the things that you use less at the earliest opportunity. Label each of the box in which room they need to be kept in your new house.

Plan Ahead- Give yourself little extra time to book any furniture removal company because particularly the best company might be booked at the time of your shifting. And when you have chosen a company then give them all the possible details like, if your furniture will need to be detached, how many flights of stairs etc.

Try to negotiate- If it’s convenient for you then try to move house on weekday rather than on weekends as the prices may be cheaper. And be aware that there are peak periods like on school holidays when you may not get any discount facility.

Have insurance- There will be many professional furniture removal companies which includes insurance for while your belongings are in move.

How to create a comfortable room

How To Create A Comfortable Room

When do-it-yourself home decorators start their projects they think of fabrics and paint colors, furniture and flooring, texture and lighting. They head to a home decorating store and look at carpet samples, compare flooring prices, study the specs on faucets, and borrow wallpaper sample books.

Very rarely do do-it-yourself decorators take the time to sit down with graph paper and map out a room for comfort. Chair placement is often decided by the aesthetic quality or balance. Almost never do home decorators determine how to place furniture before they take the time to lay out a room.

That is why there are bedrooms that contain chairs, which will never be used. Poor furniture placement in the living room forces people to turn their heads to talk, lean uncomfortably when placing coffee cups on tables, raise their voices when speaking, and twist uncomfortably in furniture.

It is not that difficult to create a comfortable room. The first step is to create a focal point. This point should be some place that draws the eyes. It can be a bookshelf, piano, mantle, or a table with a vase of flowers. However, do not become too enamored with the focal points in decorating magazines.

Yes, a beautiful $500 hand blown vase full of blood red roses may look perfect on an antique table. But, the cost of replacing $50 of roses every couple of weeks, the frustration of maintaining an antique table, and the fear that a child will shatter the vase, make the magazine’s suggestion impractical.

This type of impractical decorating has been seen in many larger homes. Home decorators buy over sized and overstuffed furniture. They expertly lay out rustic rooms with 6′ square mosaic coffee tables. However, when the room is finished, the table cannot be used for fear that it will be ruined and people are so far apart that communication is difficult.

In fact, if you’ve ever tried to curl up in an overstuffed chair with a hot drink, a quilt, and a good book, you’ll quickly realize that furniture manufacturers sacrificed comfort for prestige and image.

Another consideration when creating a comfortable room is the traffic flow. There is nothing more frustrating than running a gauntlet of furniture and clutter. Traffic should be able to move through a room without forcing people to move their feet off stools, or tuck their feet in so someone can pass.

Traffic should also be able to move through a room without stepping over furniture, or walking in front of the television screen. Traffic should also move without bumping into entertainment centers, bookcases, and knocking items off tables.

This brings another aspect into consideration. Many people feel that rooms need to be cluttered with furniture. This is not true. Purchasing a large, solid wood entertainment center, just to ‘own’ it, is as impractical as using over stuffed furniture in family rooms.

Smart home decorators do not sacrifice comfort to create an image. They do not fill a room with expensive art and figurines to make a ‘prestige’ statement. Uncluttered, comfortable rooms are easy on the eye, relaxing, and encourage people to stay together in the room — a valuable asset in today’s hectic life.