Wholesale outreach performs best when the first email contains a specific line of available stock, with quantity and price. That pattern replies at 5.1%. Opening with an offer of samples, or a general introduction as a potential supplier, replies at 4.3%.
Buyers in wholesale are running a margin calculation, and they can do it in about four seconds if you give them the inputs. A sample offer asks them to start a process before they know whether the numbers work.
The sample pattern is not weak, it is just early. It converts well once a buyer has seen a price they like and wants to check quality. Leading with it inverts the order the buyer actually thinks in.
Put one line of stock, a quantity and a price in the first email, even if it is not your main line. The point is to give the buyer something to react to. A supplier introduction with no numbers in it is indistinguishable from every other supplier introduction.
Hi [First name],
We have four thousand units of a line that matches what you already stock, available now at a landed cost that should sit comfortably under your current supplier.
Happy to send the spec sheet and the exact figure, no obligation on either side.
Want it?
Hi [First name],
We manufacture in the same category you stock and would be glad to send samples across so you can judge the quality directly.
No cost and no commitment, we just find it works better than a spec sheet.
Worth sending a set?
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Yes. Wholesale buyers evaluate on landed cost and they cannot start without a number. Withholding price to protect margin usually just removes you from consideration before the conversation exists.
One product. A catalogue asks the buyer to find their own reason to care. One line with a real quantity and price gives them something to accept, reject or counter, and any of those is a reply.
State them. A buyer who cannot meet your MOQ is not a lost deal, they were never a deal, and finding that out in email one saves both sides a call. Hiding it wastes the meeting you worked to get.
Yes, and better than most B2B segments. Sourcing is an active job rather than a passive one, so a relevant supplier email arrives as useful rather than as an interruption. The bar is that it has to be specific.
