24-7PressRelease/ - CYPRESS, TX, August 19, 2008 - After four years of serving the gift basket industry as a wholesale supplier, the owners of Gift Basket Wholesale Supply have shifted their focus from supply to service. By offering information and resources to gift basket retailers and advertising opportunities to the industry's wholesale suppliers, Brent and Reba Collins will bring both groups together through their Premium Gift Basket Wholesale Supplier Directory. An established website, located at http://www.giftbasketwholesalesupply.com, receives a large amount of traffic and ranks high in search engines including Yahoo, Google, and MSN, giving advertisers an advantage.

Gift Basket Wholesale Supply will continue to offer a newsletter and eight day e-course "How to Make Beautiful Gift Baskets", aimed at those in the design and sales end of the gift basket industry. In addition, the website will offer information, suggestions and tips related to running a successful gift basket business. Visitors to the site will be able to browse through and select from a large number of wholesale suppliers and obtain contact information for the companies straight from their directory listing. Wholesale suppliers will have the opportunity to purchase a listing in the wholesale supplier directory that allows them to add their products, images, banner advertisements, a business description and a link to their own company's website. The directory will also feature a rating system that lets customers post reviews of the companies that have listings. To help give things a jump start, charter members of the directory can purchase a 3 month premium listing on http://www.giftbasketwholesalesupply.com for just $1. This offer will be available to the first 50 suppliers to register through http://www.giftbasketwholesalesupply.com/offers/charter-member-offer.htm.

The decision to make this change was motivated by the husband and wife team's desire to remain in the gift basket industry. "We've been in this industry since 1998, beginning with FloralStuff.com, then we closed FloralStuff and opened GBWS in 2004," states Brent Collins. "We're business people who have built this from the ground up and we just want to help others do the same." His wife Reba adds, "We love this industry and we enjoy working with creative people. We've put a lot of work into this website and now suppliers as well as their customers can benefit from it."

Future plans for the website include the ability for advertisers to submit industry related articles and purchase advertising space in the newsletter and emails sent to the website's subscribers. Customers will also be able to subscribe to an RSS feed of feature products and receive discount coupons to selected suppliers. More information about the directory and other offerings can be found at http://www.giftbasketwholesalesupply.com.

About Gift Basket Wholesale Supply

Gift Basket Wholesale Supply is a premium gift basket industry vendor directory helping gift basket companies and professionals find quality vendors. The owners pride themselves in superior customer service and the vast collection of vendors offered on the website for gift basket pros to choose from. For more information, please visit http://www.giftbasketwholesalesupply.com/about.htm.

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