Gift Shows: Frequently Asked Questions I am a retail buyer of specialty wholesale gifts. What can Americas Gift Show do (better) for me?
· Expands product availability from regional to national and international suppliers
· Offers you a 365-day-a-year show so you may shop at your convenience
· Avoids concurrent, conflicting fixed-location show dates
· No cost
· Prevents you from having to search thousands of websites
· Introduces new wholesale gift product to specialty gift store buyers
· Deal with those knowledgeable about product, availability, pricing, terms
· No travel necessary
· No hassling, no hurting feet!
I am a vendor (gift manufacturers, importers, or distributors). What can America’s Gift Show do (better) for my company?
· Offers you the potential to reach “hidden” retailers, and to open new accounts particularly important due to declining regular gift show attendance
· Extends your market reach by providing one centralized trade show location covering the entire country, and, the international marketplaces
· Offers a nominal exhibit fee: $80.00 for a 12 month exhibit. Each additional exhibit is $25.00. – period.
· Avoids concurrent, conflicting fixed-location show dates
· Introduces new manufacturers and importers
· 365-day-a-year show to attract the attention of a buyer (vs. 3-5 seconds)
· Presentation to buyers made by you – the person MOST knowledgeable about your line
· No hidden costs, commissions or service fees
· Hot-links to your email and web site addresses included
· No more tired buyers (with hurting feet). All transactions at the buyer’s convenience.
· 100% control over orders written, terms, and cash-flow
· Greater rep access to potential new accounts and follow-up
· Provides affordable “test marketing” of new product
· Avoids retailers having to search hundreds of thousands individual web sites to find desired product
· Timing: retailers won’t have to wait until January or July
· Offers “promotion” opportunities on your own web site for slow-moving & close-out merchandise etc.
· Random exhibit placement on category page. Nobody is always first or always last
· OPPORTUNITY … EXPOSURE … ORDERS!
I am a gift rep. How can America’s Gift Show help me?
· Provides greater access to existing accounts wanting to place orders now
· Introduces you to new retailer buyers
· Exhibiting reps can display their creative product mix
· Provides necessary web connection to their individual sites
· Saves time
· Gives “direction” to in-person appointments by previewing product mix
· Reduces costs while increasing sales
· OPPORTUNITY … EXPOSURE … ORDERS!
HOW TO EXHIBIT:
Click on “Place Exhibit” and complete the required information. It’s simple. If you need help, please contact us. We’re here to help.
EXHIBIT COST:
The cost of a 12-month exhibit is $80.00. Optional additional category exhibits are $25.00 per category. Optional image scanning is $25.00.
Each exhibit runs for six months from the date the initial exhibit is uploaded and online.
ORDERS:
Orders are placed directly with the exhibiting manufacturer, importer or rep. Each exhibit contains contact information: phone/fax numbers, street address, email, and web site addresses.
BUYER QUALIFICATIONS TO PLACE WHOLESALE ORDERS:
America’s Gift Show is a “wholesale to the trade” show only. If you are not a wholesale gift buyer, you may look at this site but may NOT make purchases – so don’t ask!
Manufacturers will require the following to qualify you as a new wholesale buyer: your resale number, and one or two other forms of business identification such as a copy of a company check or a copy of a paid wholesale invoice. Each giftware vendor has different qualifications. Minimum quantities and dollar amount of orders must be met according to each individual manufacturer’s terms, ranging from $100-$200 per order up.
EXHIBITORS AND THEIR REPS:
America’s Gift Show is a 24/7, 365-day-a-year trade show. In no way is this show meant to replace manufacturers representatives. It is not the first order that makes money for the vendor, but the REORDER business which is generated from the many services that reps perform. If your company does not have guidelines in place to deal with the issues arising from online initial orders or reorders in one of your rep’s territories, whether originating from America’s Gift Show or another online source, you will need to establish agreed-upon policies to deal with this new distribution option. In actuality, e-commerce transactions are no different than retailer-direct phone orders.
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