Turn Your Pitches Into Consistent Orders | Wholesale Blind Spot Quiz | Proof to Product
Your Wholesale Blind Spot

Your Follow-Up.

Turn Your Pitches Into Consistent Orders

First, kudos to you. You're doing something most brands are nervous to do. You're pitching your dream stores & telling folks about your product. Where most people fall short (and where I'm recommending you spend more time), is in the follow-up.

Oftentimes, folks send one email, don't hear back, and assume something is wrong with their product or pricing. In reality, buyers are busy and they likely missed it.

Following up not only keeps your products top of mind, but it provides a service of reminding shops that you are on standby ready to ship product when they need it.

So much money is made through wholesale follow-up, but it often gets overlooked. The brands who are landing consistent new accounts and securing reorders prioritize their sales follow-up — multiple, meaningful touch points with their buyers.

You've got momentum — pitches going out, conversations started, maybe a few new accounts. What you need now is a consistent, repeatable process for following up with the right people at the right time. A few tweaks to your outreach, combined with a strategic follow-up system will add significant revenue to your P&L.

Your Superpower You're already pitching stores, which means you've done the hardest part. Sending the first email is where most people get stuck. The follow-up is just the system that makes your effort pay off.
Your Opportunity Wholesale relationships take time to build. Consistent, thoughtful outreach is what keeps your business and products top of mind with buyers AND the flow of orders coming in.
Your Edge You understand that wholesale is a relationship game and you're good at connecting with people. You just need the system (tools and process) to keep showing up in a way that feels natural — not salesy.

Go back to your last 5–10 pitches and send a follow-up this week.

Not a "just checking in" email — those get ignored. Send them something worth opening: a new product that just launched, a collection that's selling well for your current stockists, or a quick note that shows you've done your homework on their store.

Here's a simple structure that works: one sentence that references something specific about their shop, one or two sentences on what you're following up about with a photo embedded right in the email (try: "This collection is selling well for our current stockists and we'd love for you to give it a try"), your key ordering details, and a single clear call to action. Keep it short. Buyers are busy. Your job is to make it easy for them to say yes.

Send five of these this week. Track who opens, who clicks, who replies. That's your follow-up list for next month.

Your Next Step

Paper Camp gives you the pitch process and templates to turn follow-ups into orders.

Inside Paper Camp, you'll get our Wholesale Pitch Playbook — the exact workflows, email templates, and direct mail templates so you know what to send, when to send it, and how to follow a simple, clear process that gets responses. In Week 3, we bring in shop owners to a live coaching call so you can ask them directly what they want to see in a pitch and how they like to be followed up with.

Students like Krista used our templates to reach out to 16 stores and got 4 responses — after previously getting zero. One became an order, another booked an event. A real pitch process changes everything.

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Want to go deeper right now?
The Retailer Roundtable Series is a great place to start.

meet Katie Hunt

Since 2011, Katie has helped thousands of product brands successfully launch and scale their wholesale programs through Proof to Product.

You'll find her client’s products stocked on the shelves of big box accounts like Target, Nordstrom, Container Store, Urban Outfitters, Barnes & Noble as well as boutiques located all around the world.

With her guidance, Katie’s clients have…

» Surpassed $2M in annual revenue
» Fulfilled a single PO for Barnes & Noble valued at $160k
» Increased wholesale revenue by 149% in one year
» 10x wholesale revenue in a single month
» Hit yearly sales goals in October & took a whole month OFF!

One of Katie’s superpowers is her ability to optimize any business system, process or workflow without overcomplicating things.

She values simplicity in business and has a knack for breaking down complicated strategies into simple steps so that you have stronger sales, higher profit & more support.

 
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