Fashion and jewellery wholesalers want to grow their businesses and find new retailers who want to purchase their stock. However, changes in the wholesale industry and the growth of direct to consumer sales means that wholesalers need to get smart about how they are going to find new clients. Take a look at our top marketing ideas for fashion and jewellery wholesalers.
45 marketing ideas for fashion and jewellery wholesalers
- Open an Instagram page and start posting organic pictures
- Update Instagram Stories every day
- Connect with Instagram influencers with under 10,000 followers to post pictures
- Follow retailers on Instagram
- Send direct messages – DMs – to retailers to see if they will purchase your stock
- Start a Pinterest account
- Get Pinterest followers and get referral traffic on your website
- Write fashion or jewellery blogs on your website
- Write at least x5 fashion or jewellery articles per week
- Take original pictures not just of the product but how the wholesale products will look in store
- Share your fashion and jewellery blogs on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
- Join wholesale Facebook groups
- Follow retailers on Twitter and engage with them
- Send cold-emails to fashion boutiques and ask them to purchase your products
- Create a wholesale catalogue and send it to your potential clients
- Create an email newsletter full of tips on how retailers can sell more product to their customers
- Send one promotion per week to your email list per week by offering a wholesale offer if customers buy today
- Target market stall owners and join their Facebook groups
- Create a Facebook page and promote it with a small budget to reach your target audience
- Create a joint Instagram and Pinterest marketing campaign
- Write jewellery blogs about engagement rings
- Write jewellery blogs and articles about cocktail rings and costume jewellery, two of the fastest growing segments of jewellery online today
- Create YouTube videos of your new wholesale jewellery
- Promote these videos on Facebook and Twitter
- Make gifs of your new wholesale fashion and jewellery shipments
- Write a weekly trend report to send to your retailers
- Send handwritten thank you notes to your best customers to retain their business
- Send top tip documents on how your best retail customers can make their business grow
- Learn about e-commerce retail challenges and tell your best retail customers what they should be aware of
- If you are a jewellery wholesaler, create a celebrity jewellery guide for your website to increase organic searches
- If you are a fashion wholesaler, create a celebrity fashion guide for your website to increase traffic since people love searching about what celebrities are wearing
- Create a Snapchat account if your wholesale business is growing and you have noticed that your purchasing customers are on there
- Send your retail customers an Instagram marketing guide on how they can sell to more people if they purchase your clothing
- Start growing your Pinterest audience so you can increase website referral traffic for your business
- Send a colourful parcel in the post to retailers you want to attract with samples of your clothing
- Shoot lookbooks that are fresh and new and publish them on your website
- Showcase hot trends before they blow up on the Internet on your website first as this will increase traffic to your website
- Read fashion magazines and write editorial inspired articles for your wholesale website
- Rewrite your fashion wholesale product descriptions in order to increase sales
- Shoot videos for your website of how the clothes look like on real models so that more retailers can purchase your products
- Sponsor a rising YouTube influencer to shoot a video where she mentions your wholesale brand a few times. People who watch her could be boutique owners who want to buy your products.
- Offer discounts to the best customers that you have
- Create a VIP wholesale club for your best customers so they see the latest trends first
- Do a fashion show and invite retailers that you want to purchase your wholesale products
- For jewellery wholesalers, hire a hand model with impeccable nails to wear your rings and bracelets and shoot videos that you can share on Twitter and YouTube
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If you really want to grow your fashion and jewellery business, send me an email at k.a.tibaijuka-at-gmail.com and I can help you through a consultation. Contact me today.