Today's hard economic times are tough, but you don't have to get in line with other nail bitters and accept defeat. When times are good there is plenty of business to go around, retailers love to compete and go it alone, nose to nose with their competition. That works because customers are plentiful and almost anyone can make enough sales to stay alive.

When times get tough, really tough like they are now, that approach will only work for well established businesses with a large customer base and the savings to weather it alone in spite of a big slump in sales. How does the newer business just starting to grow survive, and thrive in this harsh business climate.

As a Jade Market Wholesale dealer you have the best Feng Shui products available. What you lack to grow a successful business are customers. Its so simple isn't it. Great products customers = a good business. With credit drying up, and businesses can't get the money they need to buy inventory, I see great opportunities here.

Consignment stores are getting more customers as cash strapped retail customers are abandoning department stores and heading to the thrift shops. Form an alliance with all the consignment stores in your area by putting together a photo album/catalog of our products with discounted prices and put the catalog "on consignment" with the thrift stores. Customers can order at the thrift store right from your catalog, place the order with the store owner who makes a commission, and we can drop ship straight to the customer. Its great for the store owner because now he can offer hundreds of new products without taking up more space in his shop.

Recent statistics show that people who are keeping their homes are foregoing vacations and new cars and putting their cash into remodeling/redecorating their homes. Homeowners who are able to keep their homes know other homeowners who are also keeping their homes, they tend to stick together and create alliances/support groups with other home owners. Unfortunately people going through foreclosure tend to do it alone and don't share that stressful transition.

Find people in your neighborhood, in your group of friends, interested in decorating their home and ask them to hold a Feng Shui decorating party in their home. Show her how she can make money to spend on her own redecorating and buy at a discount too. They invite their friends over, you bring some samples to sell and have your photo catalog on hand to take orders. We'll drop ship right to your customers. Make up some brochures with your website address, and if they don't buy that night they will buy later through their computer at home. Studies show that home decorating parties generate at least $300 in sales each party.

Recruit as many friends as you can and hold multiple parties every weekend with your friends hosting the parties at their house. Sell sample kits to them for demonstration and you are on your way to growing a niche market in your home town.

Very few Interior Decorators and remodelers maintain any inventories of products. They rely on alliances of their own with retail shops to source out and buy products. As retail shops are going out of business many decorators and remodelers are turning to the Internet to find products. They would much rather deal with someone local instead of another Internet dealer in China perhaps. You can produce a catalog of our products, offer the decorator or remodeler a discount to buy from you and they will bring their customers to your products.

If you can't produce a printed catalog and your don't have a website of your own, think about investing in one of our rental stores, or let us set up an affiliate store for you so you can have an online catalog.