So you finally figured out how to get those visitors to your site, huh? Well, partner, it's not over. Now you've got to keep them there, while also bringing in new people, if you hope for your blog to be effective.

How? I knew you'd ask that...

1. Pay closer attention to your audience than you do to your search engine rankings.

Who knows what way the wind will blow in years to come. You may be able to do without traffic from Google one day - just like you're probably doing without traffic from Hotbot right now.

However, you'll never be able to do without your clients and prospects. If you could you wouldn't be in business, would you?

So pay attention to what your audience wants to hear. If you configure your blog correctly in the first place, you won't have to worry about a good ranking so much.

2. Shut Up if you have nothing interesting to say. And while you're keeping your lips tight, find something *really* interesting to say.

Of course, I believe that there's never nothing to say. But I'm a writer and not everyone thinks that way.

After the first six to eight weeks, post every day if it suits you and you have words of interest. But if you can sense that your posts aren't full bodied and home brewed, it really is okay to make us go without for a few. We'll live. We won't think so, but trust us, we will.

Just make sure you have something darn near-earth shattering to share when you get back, so we will all sit up and take note... and realize that we missed you.

3. When you Do Talk, Do It Loud and Proud

(Even if you find out later you were Loud and Wrong)

It's considered impolite to behave like a Rock Star when you're having a business dinner, even if you are one.

But guess what? When you're blogging, you aren't at a business dinner. That's not to say that you Have to be a Rock Star. You don't even have to be a Star. But you definitely want to be noticed, maybe referenced, and hopefully linked. A great way to do that is to be different. The most unique thing about you is You. Inject your personality in all that you do online.

So if you have news, share it. Heck, if you have gossip share it, just always, always, always, link to your suspicions or sources. On the rare occasion that a high-profile blogger's information is totally off-base, they print a retraction. So don't be afraid to suppose. Just let us know you are sharing a rumor or a hunch or a fact or an opinion.

4. Do Unto the Blogosphere, and Make It Easy for Them to Do Unto You

When I have credible sources, I link to them. Even if I read something from the Google Blog, but now when I first saw it first at Micropersuasion, I'm still linking to Micropersuasion. That's all there is to it. (And let me tell you - it's a Huge deal when Steve Rubel links to an article that you wrote even when it's not posted on your site - think about that the next time you're tempted not to link out because "they have enough traffic.")

For the majority of people, I realize, that situation may never be in consideration. Most of the people reading this have nothing to do with search engines, public relations, or internet marketing.

Well, I'm here to tell you that even if your business is timeshare resales, link to your sources. You never know who is reading and who is going to link back. Especially if you're in a business niche where twenty visitors eventually means at least one sale, find out what the neighborhood is like in your part of the Blogosphere, look around, and play nice with the other kids.

5. Blog Like You Talk - But if You Talk "Funny" Get Someone Else to Blog with You

Nothing will scare your visitors away faster than landing in technobabble by accident. I landed at a friend's site about search engines, and the first paragraph I saw said somethinga bout (a+n) times the square root of pi and I clicked out before I even remembered why I went there.

Don't get me wrong - if that's how you talk, keep it real. But if that's not the language your clients speak, you might want to either have an employee represent your company in the blog, or do a team blog that represents all the prominent voices.

6. Give Every Subscription Option Under the Sun

Most people paying online are going to use their credit card or debit card, by far. How crazy would you have to be to say, hm, 90% of people use credit cards, but the hell with that. If they want my binoculars, their only choice is to send me $20 by PayPal on Tuesday mornings.

In this same way, refusing to turn on your site feed, because most people are still following you by email makes absolutely no sense. Refusing to start an email list or offer subscriptions to your blog headlines, summaries or posts via email is equally nuts, particularly now that there are tools in place that will translate feeds to email for you.

Not serving as much of your audience as you can is turning down money, plain and simple.

Hopefully these tips will help keep visitors coming back to your blog. It's like the old adage said, it's easier (and cheaper) to keep your present customers than it is to constantly find new ones.

Doing things right with your own online marketing of entertainment networking

Be your own business, be for real, and show the world you know how to sell online better than anything else. Building a marketing network that you control uses the same skills you have always used to sell pretty much anything. But online, it is easier because you have the time to develop your sales pitch exactly the way you want it.

Today’s world of sales is very different than from 10 or even five years ago. More and more people are using the internet every single day. The internet is the most efficient way to distribute human knowledge in effect, to the entire globe at present. It will probably continue that way for at least 30 years.

The element to consider now however, is the human one. Most people take their technology for granted, or they hold it so dear to themselves that it is more important than the family house pet. Values have changed so much since the millennia began that people are becoming more and more cybernetic by the day without even realizing it.

That is something significant, because with the computer becoming a center for work, study and social life, the Acropolis from ancient Greece has now spread out across the world and can reach into the schools of thought that permeate the atmosphere of every cyber café and home office.

Home-business networking online with your very own sales program and structure need not take thousands of dollars in personal investments, or long years of college study at Yale or Harvard. Although it does help, it’s not necessary. What is necessary however, is merely the human factor of a world that seems intent on mechanistic reality.

Sales is about the human element. Selling online means selling to human beings who find themselves attached to a mechanical world through a cybernetic interface. And that means reminding people that they are human. Entertainment is about humans, about a human reality, and one that demands a certain amount of fun and distraction.

Networking online means being real, being honest about what you sell and really showing that you can sell. The skills that we use to make a good sale are still the same human skills as with traditional face to face sales, but now we have an advantage, the electron.

Time to think, time to focus and the time to build a presentation online, of course a little persistence on your part as a sales professional is a world of difference, the electron has forever revolutionized first impressions.

We as a human race are ready to come together in one place “the internet,” and civilizations exist to improve the quality of life. That is the job of the entertainment industry, to improve how we live our lives to the fullest possible potential. Selling catharsis is important to our new cybernetic world order.

Selling cathartic experiences with online business networking in the entertainment industry is selling more than a commodity, it’s selling a basic human need, and it’s selling “an experience.”

Be for real

Long ago in the days of traditional door to door networking sales professionals, selling a product was like having an excellent first impression, creating rapport, getting to know the client’s needs, having a conversation, making friends and then laying the sales pitch down. That hasn’t changed with online sales because people are still people.

Building a network has always had the same rules. So what has changed? The fact that instead of going face to face with people at the door step we are now approaching them for the first time through a media of which many are not yet familiar. The internet interacts with images, sounds and movement, just like in the real world, but the movement, the sense of smell and taste are now virtual sensations.

It’s just like having a digital outdoor sign inside a virtual freeway of flowing electrons or a digitally moving poster board inside a coffee shop. By just clicking on them you go to the appropriate electronic address. Online marketing business affiliates that work for the entertainment industry have to build advertisements that really make clients want to visit the entertainment site.

With a little honesty, knowing your product and showing that you know how to be creative in the marketing industry, you will be for real, and have your own company with your own hours. Working for yourself in the world of cyberspace is the only way to be truly successful today.

With your own business, one that you believe in, one that sells a product you believe in and one that provides the proper motivating inspiration to succeed, there is only space for real and honest business professionals.

The Skills to Sell

The skill to sell is one that is very subjective and not everyone yet understands how a person can actually learn to sell something. It is possible to learn to sell something just as it’s possible to learn to read and write or any other ability.

Selling online is an ability that can be learned just as easily as out in the face to face world. Especially for those who are already professionals in the area. Some people are just naturally interested in one thing while other people in another. No one was simply born knowing how to read, yet here, you and countless others are, reading this text.

It takes years before children can read, so, why would things be different for anyone trying anything else for the very first time? It is no different, but sales on the internet is exactly like sales in the real world, and if you know how to do that, you know how it works online.

Basically the point is to ask yourself, are you good at selling and do you want to be even better? Of course you want to be even better than you already are and the internet offers that chance.

It will take a frame of mind that cannot in any way be compromised with things that are not equal to or above your own personal goals. It will take the kind of willpower that you only hear about in tales of great deeds. But most of all, it will take the kind of enduring self-discipline that it takes to conquer your own self.

Time to Think

The greatest advantage to selling online is the time one consecrates to the eternal flow of human creative thought. You have time to research your target public, create enduring and valiant presentations that have never been seen before anywhere and most of all, time to be persistent.

The target public is not just going to pop out of the wood work, they are there though. People are beginning to come together in a new globalized civilization and we are at the very head of those interested in commerce, trade and foremost entertainment.

We sell what people want. Finding them is as easy as putting up signs on the freeway of flowing electrons and in virtual reality cafés that they might chance onto while surfing the silver thread of silicon webs.

Mostly, chat rooms and e-mails do most of the work for affiliate marketers, even more so for those building a home network, but nothing can compare to the power of having a static site on your very own server and a subdirectory for blogging.

Sales is endowed with the coherent patterns of human speech and has been responsible for the development of new linguistic patterns unlike anything else in our history. Creative people have creative ways of dealing with markets, and on the internet nothing could have more potential than network builders who enjoy a good conversation.

Time to think is really that, time to talk over ideas and concepts that directly may not even appear to be related to entertainment, but related to rapport, empathy and feeling. Blogging is a way of creating interesting conversations in forum fashion, that people may discuss their own passions.

Passion is the very blood of a sale. When we see a passionate person talking about their passion, we too become passionate. But it must be for real. Nobody wants to buy a vacuum cleaner from a person who sees the vacuum cleaner as a domestic tool for the unhappy domestic servants of the world.

People want to buy vacuum cleaners from people who see the vacuum cleaner as a revolution to our way of life on earth! But really see! Not acting like they see. Really seeing!

Of course most people probably haven’t received a vacuum cleaner sales person at their door in over a decade, the metaphor is perfect. If you truly believe in what you sell, if you truly know that it is fulfilling of some exceptional role in society, you will sell it well.

This is why blogging sells so well for online networkers. Passion sells, and it is found by the search engines more often than sites that don’t evolve. Chat rooms and blogs do more work for online marketing than static sites do, and that is purely human.

Only a professional sales person can deal with it. Learn the area, research and you will soon find that your marketing company can be for real, even in an ocean of electrons.

"Sales" are the life blood and driving force of your business and are what keep your business and employees(if you have any) going, whether your business is online or offline, moving you closer to your desired goals set for that year because without "Sales" your business would siese to exist.

This is a 'Fact' and anyone reading this right now knows it.

Now, for the purpose of this article, I'm going to be strictly focusing on "Online Sales" and how you can BOOST them by 50-120% in the next 7 days by simply implementing this one strategy.

YES... I'm not joking. This really can be done if you know how and are willing the learn the necessary 'Steps' in order to get it done.

All the TOP Internet marketers are using this strategy to build their online empires effortlessly, and you too can do the same.

Not only will this strategy build your online empire and BOOST your online sales, it is also one of the most POWERFUL traffic generating tactics on the Internet for ANY business out there.

Okay. I hope by now I have your attention.

Now, we all know that if we don't promote our business or businesses online, whether it's a Product, Service or Business Opportunity, and get it infront of your target market, our business would simply disappear to no existance.

Can we agree on that?

I thought so.

With that said, there are several marketing tactics that we as Internet marketers can employ online like, Articles, Pay-Per-Clicks, SEO, Blogs, eMail, Traffic Exchanges, just to name a few, to use to get our Products, Services or Business Opportunity infront of our target market in order to make a "Sale" or enroll a NEW referral.

All these methods do take time to learn and time to implement. Some do cost money and depending on your marketing budget, might not get you the desired results you were hoping for.

The good news is the strategy I'm about to share with you will take all that away, though there is always some time and learning involved, and will build you an online sales force that will start sending your website Hundreds, if not, Thousands of qualified visitors to your website, costing you Nothing, and bringing in those much needed "Sales".

Now, if you've been online for any length of time then you've probably heard of what I'm about to mention, if not, then your in for a real treat.

Here it is... the most POWERFUL marketing tactic available online for generating Hundreds, if not, Thousands of targeted visitors to your website and BOOST your sales by up to 50-120% in the next 7 days is an...

... Affiliate Program!

For those of you who don't know what a Affiliate Program is it's simply a way for companies to extend and distribute their products and services through a Virtual Sales Force made up of any number of any kind of other web sites.

This is VERY powerful strategy used by almost all or anybody serious about their business and when implemented properly could send your sales through the roof.

Simply put, by having your own Affiliate Program in place it gives you the ability to put Joint Ventures together, find and recruit affiliates, or even better, SUPER Affiliates who will market your Product, Service or Business Opportunity at their expense, costing you nothing, in exchange for a cut of the profits, which is usually a percentage or set price.

Point being, the more affiliates you find and recruit, the BIGGER your Sales Force will be, sending you Hundreds, if not, Thousands of qualified targeted visitors to your website which is what you need in order to make "Sales".

It's not such a bad trade off, wouldn't you agree?

Just imagine for a moment if you had just 100 affiliates working Day and Night promoting your Product, Service or Business Opportunity, sending your website traffic that you had to do nothing to get and are bringing you in those much needed Sales and/or Referrals to reach your set goals.

Online shopping was once seen as quirky and impractical, but it has proven that not only is it a viable consumer option, it is also a mega pipeline for billion dollar businesses. In fact, many experts expect to see the growth of the online shopping industry increase in ways that will eventually make offline shopping somewhat obsolete. Already we see that during peak shopping months like December, online sales statistics sometimes top the revenue figures for brick and mortar stores.

And this phenomenon has not been ignored by the bad guys, particularly those who make their money by computer-aided theft, fraud, and hacking. If you are concerned about whether or not your online shopping transactions are safe and secure, you are in good company. Even the experts on the subject say that it is a matter of concern, and they advise ways to remain vigilant in protecting our critical personal data. By being aware of the potential for criminal exploitation of our online shopping experiences, we can defend ourselves against such things, and our stress and worry can be transformed into a healthy awareness of our modern need to take reasonable security precautions.

The biggest vulnerability of all is that we have special words and codes we use to identify ourselves, since we are not involved in old-fashioned face-to-face business transactions. That means that it is easy to pretend to be someone else, if we have someone else’s personal passwords. Just as covert operators like secret agents do during wartime, thieves can discover our secret passwords and then use them to cross over into territory where they can easily attack us and wreak havoc, plundering our well-guarded assets. The trick to outwitting these crooks is to have codes that are impossible – or next to impossible – to decipher.

Password protection is a serious business, and we should take it just as seriously as we do the practice of locking our doors at night or walking on well-lighted streets instead of darkened alleys. Experts recommend that we do not use passwords related to information that could be found out about us easily. For instance, your birthday, street address, and dog’s name are probably not well protected. Anyone with the determination to research those things could find out such personal info about you, and if you are using those dates or names for passwords, they can hack your accounts. It is better to use more obscure and random passwords that have no other relevance to your personal identity.

And when creating a password, use a random mix of both numbers and letters. Some computer programs used by culprits will automatically try all combinations of numbers, for instance, to find the one that opens your account. By tossing in a few random letters, you can scramble these attempts and thwart them. Another important piece of advice is to update your passwords regularly, by changing them to new ones. Don’t use the same password on more than one account, and change your passwords on a regular basis, at least a few times each year.

Once you’re sleeping peacefully in the knowledge that you have done everything possible to protect yourself online, you can shop the Internet with confidence and reassurance.

Everyday, the world of the virtual marketplace gets more real. Dealers, owners, salespeople and services around the world are learning the value of putting their stores online. The automotive manufacturing, marketing and dealership sectors have a greater reliance and expertise in knowledge management than any other industry. This extends to viable E-commerce and cutting-edge online presentation of value-added products. In October of 2005, the New York Times reported that according to the National Automobile Dealers Association, 94% of the dealers in the US have websites with many of them registered through car finder services. The monthly average customers that visited any given dealer site were 230, as compared to a monthly average of 116 in 2004. Consumers are not just window-shopping or researching possible on-lot purchases, they are buying online at a dramatically increasing rate. Typical dealer sales conducted entirely online have increased from an average of 4.9 to 7.5 monthly in just two short years. 1.6 million people a month now buy their vehicles online. This is a staggering statistic. However, given the outstanding customer service and convenience provided by virtual car dealerships, it’s no surprise. This is part of a worldwide upward trend in auto related site traffic and business. Although site traffic numbers are higher in Germany, Sweden, and Holland, online sales are 60% higher in the USA than the world average.

One of the advantages of the online marketplace and virtual dealership sites is the fact that comparison-shopping is more convenient and less confusing for the consumer. For example, you are more times than not looking at a limited selection of make, model and inventory when you visit your local dealer. The price is approximately whatever the salesperson says it is. Knowing that auto sales are always negotiable, and that most salespersons work from commission, you are immediately put on notice that if you want a good deal, you will have to haggle. Offers and counter-offers then ensue. The salesperson plays the "good cop" role as he shuffles off with offers to a mysteriously absent manager or "bad cop" that is, of course, reportedly inflexible and steadfast. You, on the other hand, sit and twiddle your thumbs for hours on end waiting for a reasonable counter-offer. Usually eight or ten hours later, you are tired, confused, stressed out, and just plain exasperated. You may or may not have worked out a deal. Many car-buyers consider this a frustrating experience, not a satisfying or pleasurable one. Thanks to advancing IT technology and online virtual dealer showrooms, the scenario described above is becoming less common all the time.

The online marketplace allows you to select from an entire world of inventory and options. All makes and all models are available. MSRP and invoice cost are available and price quotes are yours for the asking. Many dealership sites will provide you with a complete detailed list of options and specifications on any make and model that may have caught your interest. Multiple views and zoom features are available for new and some late model vehicles. Some more advanced virtual showrooms can even provide three hundred and sixty degree interior scans. Do you want to hear what your new high performance vehicle sounds like? Yes, you can hear it online in some virtual showrooms. You can access financial worksheets that will calculate your monthly payments right down to the penny. You can do everything short of kicking the tires and taking the test drive. Online, there are no grandiose showrooms, in-your-face sales promotions, prizes, colorful décor, or overdressed salespersons to drive the dealer's overhead off the chart. There are no mysteries. On car finder sites like http://www.carfinderservice.com, you can provide a description of exactly what type of vehicle you are looking for and your zip code. You receive a prompt reply from a trusted in-network dealer in your area. This is not an auto-reply with a generic message. You receive a phone call from an actual local salesperson with all the information you need. This includes the availability, the value-added price, and answers to any questions you might have. In addition, there is no cost or obligation to use many of these services.

The value of the in-network dealer is obvious: They have made a commitment to provide consumers with the lowest possible price. A quote at rock bottom price results because the dealers' cost to obtain you, as a customer is almost zero. These savings can then be passed on to you. We are talking about prices that are usually one percent over the dealer's invoice. This is a huge bargain by anyone's standards. There are a number of factors that are taken into consideration to determine pricing at this stage of the online buying experience. One of them, of course, is supply and demand. If a vehicle is in high demand, the price can be as high as the MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price). However, the fact that you are dealing with an in-network dealer is going to carry more than adequate weight into the quote you receive. You get the lowest possible price and the best quality service available anywhere by using a car finder service online. You get the virtual royal treatment with this system.

In the beginning of internet industry, the world has changed into something that is unpredictable and impulsive.

It made the world smaller and narrower and opens new opportunities to people especially in the field of commerce.

The internet introduced new ways of earning money and new forms of businesses that are very advanced and utilizes high technologies. Different strategies for businesses are developed and that includes affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is the affiliation connecting website owners and merchants whereby the merchant offers the website owner a commission fee arrangement for connecting to the merchant’s site to offer goods or services for sale.

Affiliate marketing is now a popular method of promoting web businesses.

The affiliate is being rewarded for every visitor, subscriber or costumer provided through his efforts. It is a modern variation of the practice of paying finders-fee for the introduction of new clients to a business.

With affiliate marketing, a merchant recruits content sites to a partner with them as affiliates in exchange for rewards or commission.

The merchant provides their links to their affiliates, advertising banners and assigns commission for each click-through to their sites, purchase of their products and subscription to their service that is generated form the links.

The compensation may be made based on a certain value for each visit or pay-per-click, registrant or pay-per-lead and a reward for each costumer or sale or pay-per-sale.

The affiliate publishes websites so they are also known as publishers and merchants advertise on affiliate sites, so they are also called advertisers.

Merchants and publishers benefit form this unique arrangement. Website owners have the opportunity to earn money through their niche audience, and the merchants get a more measurable, precise and targeted means of advertising their products or services.

Affiliate marketing is a new and revolutionary method for driving profits through revenue sharing relationships between online merchants and content sites.

Affiliate marketing pushes products and services out to the consumer on virtual shelf space across the web and creates opportunities for merchants to generate sales for the affiliates to earn revenue from the sites and for the consumers to find the products and services they want on the web.

Affiliate marketers, utilizes several networks. They evaluate new networks and individual programs. Merchants who are considering adding an affiliate strategy to their online sales channel should research the different technological solutions available to them.

Some types of affiliate management solutions are standalone software, hosted services, shopping carts with affiliate features and third party affiliate networks.

Some advertisers join networks to jumpstart their affiliate marketing efforts while others create their own in house programs to offer publishers money making opportunities. Publishers can join the networks to have access to those merchant’s affiliate programs.

Affiliate program is a partnership with an online merchant who compensates for any sales that is sent that trade via links on the site. It is an easy way to earn money off traffic to the site.

With affiliate program, earning potential is not limited to sales; it can also refer other affiliates. The merchant will pay a percentage of all the sales that is referred.

Affiliate marketing uses few marketing terms like cost per sale, cost per lead, cost per click and cost per one thousand impressions.

In cost per click (CPC), a visitor to the affiliates website clicks on a merchant’s banner and visits the merchant’s website. In cost per sale (CPA), a visitor by the affiliate purchases goods and services form the merchant.

In the cost per lead (CPL), a visitor referred by the affiliate completes a form on the merchant’s website and in the cost per one thousand impressions (CPM). Merchants pay a set rate for the display of one thousand of their banner or advertisement.

In the early days of affiliate marketing, many internet users held negative opinions due to the tendency of affiliates to use spam to promote the programs in which they were enrolled.

As affiliate marketing has matured, many affiliate merchants have refined their terms and conditions to prohibit affiliates from spamming.

Through affiliate marketing, merchants can place their advertising banners and links on content sites worldwide and only pay a commission when those links generate a sale or qualified lead.

There are many ways that people earn money from web sites and doing work online. Some of the most popular ways are creating web sites that feature advertisements on them as well as making money selling goods online with your own eStore or at web sites such as eBay.

The first thing you need to do before you can earn money is to create a web site. You can hire a professional to create one for you, or make one yourself either through coding or downloading a script/template from another web site.

Then you need to get hosting so that your site will be available on the Internet. This can be done at a number of web hosts including GoDaddy, BlueHost, 1&1 Hosting, Host Gator, and many more.

Once your web site is up and running, you should promote it to help build traffic. Without traffic, a website is worthless. If your site is getting a steady stream of traffic, then it is time to look to sell advertisements. There are three types of advertisements which you can run on your web site, those where you interact directly with the advertiser where they pay you a flat fee for an ad on your web site, PPC programs such as Google AdSense or the Yahoo! Publisher Network who pay you each time a visitor clicks on an advertisement they host on your web site, or through affiliate programs where you place a link to an online store and get a portion of the all sales from visitors you refer.

If you feel you are not up to running a web site and securing advertising, you can sell items online, using your own eStore. Pick a product, set up an eStore through your hosting provider and make money when someone purchases a good from your store. You can also make money selling items on web marketplaces such as eBay and CraigsList.

There are a number of legitimate ways you can make money online. Whether you are looking for a full time job or a part time income, making money through an online business is the most convenient way to do it. Don't be turned off by those wishing to sell you a book on how to make money online. Visit and read the posts at many webmaster forums and you will get a great sense on how hundreds are earning a living from web sites and online sales.

There are many types of wholesale businesses. You need to find the right one that fits your style, your character, interests and personality. This article will help you find the different types of wholesale businesses so you can pick the right one for you.

Not all wholesale businesses are created equal. There are many types of wholesale businesses, probably too many to mention. Every item that is sold or produced could be sold at wholesale prices. For our article we’ll go over businesses that have a relatively easy barrier of entry. In other words, you don’t need $100 million dollars to start them.

First of all, let’s list some of the businesses with easy entry. A wholesale business with an easy level of entry is a business that you can start with a reasonable amount of money depending on how large you want to launch the business. For example, if you are a one person operation you could start it for less than $1,000. If you want a large business you can get the same type of business and add more inventory, employees, vehicles, warehouses, etc.

OK, so what types of businesses can you start or purchase? Well, there are many types of businesses that involve the wholesale trade, here are some examples:

--Manufacturing--
After you manufacture goods you have to sell them to wholesalers, retailers or directly to the public. This involves wholesale or distribution, or both.

--Importing--
Everything about importing spells wholesale. You have to negotiate with oversees manufacturers, transport the products to the USA, get brokers to import products, warehouse goods, and sell and ship products to your wholesale or retail customers.

--Wholesalers--
Wholesalers are usually importers or people who buy from importers or manufacturers to sell to other wholesalers or distributors, then normally don’t sell to retail stores. Wholesalers specialize in getting good products and supplying them to wholesale distributors, cash and carry’s and even exporters.

--Cash and Carry--
Cash and Carry businesses are stores that buy at wholesale prices and sell mostly to very small wholesale distributors or wagon jobbers and to small retail stores like liquor stores or gas stations. They have a warehouse or store front where customers drive up and buy their products. They usually don’t deliver any products.

--Online Sales--
Online sales are a large part of the modern wholesale trade. Many wholesalers sell online nowadays. You can add online sales to your business by simply selling your current products from your websites or other websites or you could even start a business around online sales. If you start a business selling online you simply need a good supplier, a decent shopping cart and you also need to accept credit cards. The rest is getting the right people to your site, or marketing.

--Brokers—
Brokers differ from the other types of distributors in that they normally don’t buy products, they just sell them. They never take possession of the merchandise; they don’t have warehouses, trucks and many times don’t even have offices. They just sell and get commission from the sales. Being a broker is perfect for someone without a lot of money to buy products or someone with great contacts in a particular industry. For example, if you work or used to work at a large retail store you can use your contacts to sell products from other companies. You then get anywhere from 1% to 10% of the sales depending on the type of merchandise.

--Wholesale Distributors--
Wholesale Distributors can be manufacturers or importers too. Wholesale Distributors tend to sell to several customers including wholesalers and retailers. They are the most popular type of wholesaler and usually sell everything including food, beverage, consumer goods, cars, chemicals, and most products out there. They can have warehouses and trucks or drop ship products. They can sell to restaurants, manufacturing plants, retail stores, governments or to other wholesalers.