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“You've got to spend money to make money" is the old saying. It's true that spending money is a necessary part of any business, but spending wisely is never more important than during a difficult economy. So how do you prioritize to make the most of your expense dollars?
Luke McKinney, of Entrepreneur.Com, says "Beware the 'Shiny Stuff' Seduction." Speaking primarily to business start-ups, he
says to buy "what you need, not what you want", understanding that there will always be a gadget that's more flashy than the one
before. "Ask yourself, if I buy this, will we use it everyday? If not, is there a company who can do this for us?"
McKinney also says to beware of the lure of time-savings promised by many electronic gadgets. Remember than every piece of technology requires time on the learning curve, so evaluate whether the net time saved will be significant enough to justify.
Hidden Costs
Many purchases result in expenses that may not be apparent when the purchase is made. Computer printers are a perfect example.
The initial cost is one consideration, but the cost of ink or toner may over time drastically change the economics of
comparative brands.
In addition to unnecessary spending on shiny toys, common mistakes made by entrepreneurs include underestimating miscellaneous and unexpected expenses, launching new products, locations or even startup businesses without adequate testing of the marketplace, and premature hiring (source).
The latter point reminds that there are many hidden costs in adding employees, such as taxes, insurance, saving and investment plans, etc. Some of the foregoing are optional and some most definitely are not. Which leads to another mistake entrepreneurs may be tempted to make.
"Entrepreneurs are often apprehensive to speak with an accountant, for whatever reason," says Mike Michalowicz, author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. "Truth be told, you must meet with an accountant, as it will save you money in the long run. An accountant can do everything from helping you avoid tax penalties to setting you up with the right salary or making sure you are on track with your quarterly tax payments. The accountant is your friend, I promise."
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Aspen Bay Candles: It's not hard to see why Aspen Bay Candles are simply better. Our candles are poured with a clean burning soy wax blend and use recycled materials wherever possible. We hand-pour all of our products in our factory in Mississippi. The result is a line of premium candles with quality you can see and most importantly smell.
Badash Crystal: Our 24% hand-cut lead crystal is produced in the finest factories in Europe by the same artisans that manufacture for Mikasa, Waterford, Lenox, and Sasaki. Every piece is individually and safely gift boxed. We offer superb quality and value for all your gift giving and/or personal pleasure.
Brownlow Gifts: Brownlow produces a full line of inspirational gifts for every occasion. You will find useful and attractive home décorgifts for the kitchen, bedrooms, study and all other rooms in the house. Brownlow is well known for gourmet products, journals, gifted paper items, photo albums, photo frames, decorative sentiment plaques, a variety of stationery, many different ceramic gifts as well as a large assortment of inspirational gift books. Most products are in coordinating themes that retailers can purchase in eye-catching countertopdisplay collections.
Calypso Studios is a Fashion Accessory & Gift Company that creates products that encompass a relaxed and vibrant lifestyle. We are constantly moving forward and challenging ourselves with new designs and accessories, creating beautiful pieces that everyone can enjoy. We are excited to bring more color and sparkle to any wardrobe in an array of new designs for the gift industry, including our new and extremely popular Comfort Crosses and Wrap Bracelets. Visit us online today at www.calypsostudiosinc.com to explore all of our new 2011 product!
CAMEOEZMarketplace.com: CAMEO EZ© member stores can now log into a site one time and place orders from several manufacturers. This is a newly introduced site, so check back often to see more lines. One Login - Multiple Shopping Carts - Easy Checkout.
Divinity Boutique is a gift company that is focused on trendy and fun gifts that feature inspirational verse and themes.
Elegant Baby recognizes that today's babies are stylish, and is committed to providing baby gifts featuring the very best design, quality, craftsmanship and tradition anywhere.
Europa Home décorincluding glass, candleholders and candles for garden, lodge, awards, gourmet food, sale items and more.
Gina B. Designs is an award-winning greeting card, gift and stationery products company featuring exceptional art and design. With an array of styles, variety of products and outstanding customer service, Gina B. Designs has "something for everyone." All products are proudly made in the U.S.A.
The Heeney Company is a wholesale manufacturer and importer of floral and Christmas products. The company distributes, imports and or manufactures floral and Christmas arrangements, silk flowers, foliages and plants, dried materials, ribbons, candles and decorative accessories.
Hook Line Greetings offers the world's first patent-pending "Gift-in-Greet" Fishing Lure Cards. The company's unique and clever greeting cards contain an authentic hand-tied fishing lure as the "gift" that can be taken out for immediate fun and enjoyment. Just "release" the fishing lure from the card, tie on a line and go fish!
Highland Graphics: a leader in functional gift with decorative items for gift giving and kitchen. From our topselling Absorbastone coasters, to our decorative bamboo cutting boards, everything we manufacture is made in the USA. Our high quality plus competitive pricing lets our customers make higher margins. We feature licensed art, official collegiate products and have a full range of custom capabilities with low minimums.
Nicole Brayden Gifts a bright and trendy collection of stationary and home décorproducts. Lots of fun colors and designs offered. Introducing new and exciting "Purse Pad" stationary assortments as well as the trendy Cheeky Chic collection.
Puzzle Pen The Puzzle Pen is the only erasable, retractable and refillable pen on the market. This product is a great, new break-thru for puzzlers. If your store has customers that play Crossword, Sudoku, KenKen, Kakuro, Magic Square, Acrostic, or any other word or number puzzle, this unique new Puzzle Pen will be a great hit in your store.
Saltbox is a Manhattan-based design studio known for its signature creations in canvas. Regularly featured in magazines such as Oprah, Self, People and Brides, the Saltbox collection is renowned for its alluring prints and colors and is well-loved for its sturdy construction and heavy weight, water resistant canvas.
Shade Tree Greetings' "Actual Pictures" are recognized as one of the best-selling greeting card lines in the industry. Nostalgic photographs and clever, funny verses make these cards a success. Go to our website to browse over 300 styles. GREAT introductory programs and free fixtures.
snoozies!® are not socks and they're not slippers - sort of a crossover between the two and that's why we call them "foot coverings"! snoozies!® are made with a brushed fleece exterior in colorful & fun printed patterns and then lined with a soft Sherpa fleece inside.
Spring Street is proud to offer the finest assortment of personal, home, and office accessories. Our extensive product lines are all theme oriented, from baby to bride and beyond. All of our gift items are hand epoxy enameled and adorned with faux jewel encrusted motifs. Many of our designs are inspired from the famed Soho district of New York City where the very real Spring Street is located.
Sunbelt
Marketing Group , Inc. Licensed functional and decorative giftware for the home and tailored for the men's market, i.e. (clocks, signs, coat/key racks, salt and pepper shakers, bottle openers, shelves, picture frames, games key chains and more). Licenses include Coca-Cola, General Motors, Pepsi-Cola, Farmall Tractors, Shelby and the Shelby Ford Mustang and Dodge. Product mediums include wood, polyresin, and glass and mixed mediums.
Sunset Vista Designs Inc.: offers you extra margin opportunities, and sells thru at retail. They offer innovative designs, in proven products, with space saving merchandising solutions, and attractive package deals that all add value to the quality products we offer. Many say this is the "best ever" line of innovative gift, garden, and home décor.
Tripar International Inc.: Tripar International is your source for both displays and decorative accessories. Our extensive product line includes a wide assortment of easels, risers, ornament stands, plate racks, mirrors, jewelry displays, and unique display pieces. We are also an excellent source for wine accessories, wall décor, inspirational signs, and cookbook stands. We offer quality with style, low minimums and fast shipping.
Wellspring brings art and organization to everyday life with products in fashion, organization, and home. Check out quick ship items for the holidays that retail under $10- Flip Notes, great lightweight pill boxes and compacts, Auto Notes, lens cleaners and more! Also beautiful curios, scarves, wristlets, and pillows. All great gifts to ship now.
Winshare produces and imports a full line of Natural Wooden 3D Interlocking Puzzles as you've never seen before. We picked our best sellers and created for you the most unique Wooden Puzzle Gift Sets out there. Customers LOVE them!! All products are crafted of natural wood and come with wooden box and lid for easy safe keeping. Each set comes in natural craft box with PVC window. Instructions / solutions included in each box. Our products can definitely be categorized under the "PERFECT, SPECIAL, UNIQUE, and NATURAL GIFTS" all at the same time! Projects Customization available.
PURCHASE, New York - July 21, 2011: Welcome Home Brands won an Innovation Honor in Product Design in New Products (Brand-new original, first-to-market) at the second annual ICON Honors for its extensive and innovative line of oven-safe Paper Bakeware.
ICON Honors celebrates superior achievement, contribution and innovation across the home and gift industry landscape. The ICON Honors are sponsored by the AmericasMart Atlanta, the Gift & Home Trade Association and Sandow Media.
The ICON 2010 judges evaluated a large field of submissions vying for honors in three awards categories - Innovation, Contribution and Achievement - with awards recognizing excellence in product design and packaging, technology applications, sustainability commitments and cause-product influence. Competition for the Honors were by individual submission in the Innovation and Contribution categories, and by independent nomination in the Achievement category. (source)
PRODUCT INTRODUCTIONS
Celebrate National Picnic Month with Dune Road Designs Dinnerware
Make the most of beach and seaside meals with a nautically-themed table
BELVEDERE, Calif., July 11, 2011: Dune Road Designs is the brainchild behind friends Alisa Bekins, Denise Burkard, and Elizabeth Canady. In 2009, this women-owned business began with a simple idea: to produce dinnerware that celebrates life by the water. Named after a road in the Hamptons, a famous beach destination in Long Island, New York, the company maintains its nautical theme while branching out into style products for the home.
"Talking over a glass of wine two years ago, we decided to create a company and a product line that fit who we are - women who love travel, food, and entertaining - and in turn, who our customers are," said Bekins, Dune Road Design's "Skipper." "Whether on deck, by the beach or at your kitchen table, our dinnerware fits your lifestyle."
All of Dune Road Designs products are designed in-house with a focus on nautical themes, and feature high quality melamine for ease of use, storage and cleaning. Inspiration for the designs come from color, textiles and fashion combined to create a fresh, current look.
"Since introducing Dune Road Design's dinnerware to our customers, we're hearing rave reviews," said Kelly Erickson, owner of Citrus gift boutique, located in Tiburon, Calif. "Not only is it a stand out design at a reasonable price, but on first inspection, most believe it's real china. The quality and customer service is impressive."
WHITE PLAINS, NY, July 15, 2011 International participation in the New York International Gift Fair® (NYIGF®) will increase by more than 20% for the summer 2011 edition with 380+ companies from around the world represented among the Fair's 2,800+ exhibitors. A total of 46 countries will be represented throughout NYIGF - with international government sponsored pavilions in five of the Fair's divisions.
"International scope has long-been a defining characteristic of NYIGF, and we're delighted to significantly expand both the number of countries and the number of suppliers from around the world," said Dorothy Belshaw, NYIGF director and GLM senior vice president. "Many of these newcomers from overseas are making their industry debut at NYIGF this summer."
New York's Newest, the division featuring companies new to NYIGF, will have the greatest international participation, with 20 countries represented. Of these, seven are government-sponsored pavilions from Argentina, China, Ecuador, India, Malaysia and Nepal.
The largest number of pavilions - a total of eight - will be located in NYIGF's General Gift division. Two groups, the Korea International Trade Association, and the Panama pavilion, are making their NYIGF debut, and the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts from India is returning after an absence. Other General Gift pavilions include: Africa Now!; JETRO New York (Japan); Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH, Messe Stuttgart (Germany); Created in France/Ateliers d'art de France; British Jewellery & Giftware International; and the Israel Export Institute. General Gift also will welcome a new unofficial "collective" of exhibitors from Ireland, as well as two groups of independent international exhibitors returning from China and Russia.
CHICAGO (July 13, 2011) - The Chicago Market boasts a strong line-up of programming, vendors and new trends, making the show in July a must-attend event. The combination of educational and inspirational presentations from industry leaders will provide retailers the information and tools necessary to stay abreast on the evolving industry dynamics and purchasing trends of today's consumer.
Event highlights include seminars, networking events with industry leaders including a special presentation by Jan Parr, editor of Chicago Home + Garden and an exciting Shop Local Trolley Tour through Chicago's Southport Corridor. The Chicago Market will take place July 28 - August 3, with Temporaries, including Beckman's™ Handcrafted Show, July 30 - August 2.
Visit www.ShopChicagoMarket.com for more information about market amenities, these events, the event RSVP registration site, and details about additional showroom events. Some events require RSVP.
