Where to look for to expend my business ?

[joehan]

I have local wholesale business on lingerie, underwear, children clothes ... etc
I want to expend outside Toronto,
how should I go about do that ??
Is there anyway to market my business better ?
I feel like that I need to increase my exposure.
So, please help.

Thank you very much ....

I am thinking about creating a website, but wanna to just start a photo blog (no cost) first, so people can check it out my products, good idea ????
or
any suggestion.

Thanks again !!!

[cdnNick]

Setting up an online store can be fairly inexpensive. As long as you aren't looking for a custom design you can use free open source shopping carts (cubecart, zencart). It would probably take about the same amount of time to set that up as it would creating the blog.

[deep]

Lingerie....children's clothes.....children's lingerie! NICE!!!!

First, I think expending your business is a bad idea. Expanding, however, could indeed be great for you. A website is a (relatively) easy and (relatively) inexpensive way to make your items AVAILABLE outside of Toronto, but actually getting people outside of Toronto to see this hypothetical website may prove more difficult.

What kind of channels are you currently selling through? Do you always want to be looking to sell direct-to-customer, or is there a possibility for you to approach other retailers to resell your products?









Seriously, man....children's lingerie will be a hit.

[joehan]

I don't do retail.
I am a whole seller, which means that my target market are all the different stores that willing to buy my product in large quantities.
As of right now, I just go directly to retail stores and finding my customers this way.
My expending means wanting to find more clients rather than anything major.
So, I wanna to know what other success stories thats out there can give me some idea ...
And I plan to fly out west to check it out their market down there ...
but is there anyway to find out more of my target market before I fly over there ??
So more suggestions please ...

Thanks