If their products sell well and get more orders, then they will produce more.

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If you are likely to get a few more orders for that exact size later in the year, then you could use the custom order as a base for a larger production run now.

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After we launched the site and figured out how to take orders and ship products, the next task we faced was to get more visitors to the site, and ultimately more sales.

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