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It’s time to make your New Year’s Resolutions.  What are you going to do differently this year?  It’s time to make some changes which will improve your personal and business life.  In order to be effective, these resolutions need to be Specific, Measurable and Stated In The Positive.  What does that mean?

Specific:  State exactly what you intend to do. 

Measurable:  Build measurability into the resolution, giving specific numbers of pounds you want to lose or money you want to make. 

Stated In The Positive:  The resolution should say what you will do, not what you are going to stop doing. 

Don’t say “I’ll try to get more exercise.”  Do say “I will exercise an hour a day 5 days each week.”  Don’t say “I’ll make more sales in my store.”  Do say, “I will increase sales in my store by 10% in 2011.”   Don’t say “I will stop eating junk food.”  Do say “Every day I will eat healthy nutritious foods which are good for my body.”

If you are clear in stating to yourself what you intend to do, your mind will go to work making your resolutions come true.  If you resolved to increase sales by 10% and you find your sales flat at the end of February, you’ll know that action is necessary to reach your 10% goal by the end of the year.  If you keep doing what you did last year, you’ll get the same results.  If you are committed to keeping the promise you made to yourself, you’ll find a way to increase your sales.  More impulse items?  More advertising?  Bigger signs in front of your store?  Seasonal items?  Regional sports team merchandise?  Big sales?  Funny gadget items?  If you’re focused on keeping your resolution every day, you will find yourself experimenting with new things every month until you find what sells, and you’ll hit your 10% target. 

The purpose of a New Year’s Resolution is to make your life better by prompting you to keep promises to yourself.  When you make resolutions this year, be serious about them, write them down, and put them somewhere you will see them every day.  Then spend the year having fun trying different approaches to keep your resolutions.  And don’t make weak resolutions.  Really challenge yourself, and you will find that you have a very happy new year in 2011.

Heart Decoration # HM345

It’s time to stock your store for Valentine’s Day.  It’ll be here before you know it.  Kole Imports can help, with a huge variety of wholesale closeout Valentines Day items at great prices.  We have many different Valentine’s Day decorations and gifts.  We won’t be reordering any of these when they sell out, so order now to get the best items.  These are very nice quality closeout items from some of the USA’s biggest stationery and party supply companies.

If you’ve never sold Valentine’s Day items in your store, think about selling them this year.  Most of our items are wholesale priced low enough to be retailed for a dollar, which means they are inexpensive impulse items, which will add to the size of your customer’s average order over the next month.  It’s an easy way to add a little more profit to the beginning of your year, and it is also another way for you to better serve your customers and give them items they’re looking for.  It’s a true win-win situation.

Click here to see our Valentine’s Day items.

Family Car Window Decals # CA292

We’ve just received a big wholesale closeout lot of car window decals in a variety of styles, and we’re selling them for 49 cents each.  You know the ones I’m talking about.  These are decals of parents, big kids, medium-sized kids, babies and pets, which people put on their car windows to represent the members of their family. 

We also have a few other styles of car window decals, including soccer balls, shamrocks and flowers.  Window decals are still very popular, and these items originally sold for well over a dollar.  They would be a great bargain in a dollar store, or even priced at $1.99 in a discount store.  We’re wholesaling them for 49 cents, so you’ll make a profit no matter how you price them. 

These are closeouts, so you need to order now to make sure you get some.  When they’re sold out, they’re gone.  You can find them on http://www.koleimports.com by searching for “window decal.”