In John Jantsch’s latest e-newsletter, a nice step-by-step way to wade into the whole Facebook, Digg, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Mixx, Squidoo, delicious, and Flickr world of ways to promote your consignment or resale shop, and create a reason for people to remember, and spread the word about, you. In effect, it’s word of mouse!
If you feel learning about and utilizing the “personalized social business network” as he terms it, is a valuable way to promote your secondhand business, this is a terrific lesson plan for teaching yourself! (Beware, you can eat up a LOT of days with this: it’s fascinating stuff, and only by exploring can you determine if it’s a time-effective way to expand your specific retail business.)
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 
I highly recommend social networking. I pick up new customers all the time who say they saw my MySpace page and I invite new friends on MySpace as a way of getting the word out and utilizing this wonderful free advertising tool! I’ve also got some photos posted on Flickr and have received comments from folks who have seen them. Now if I could only find the time to do even more….
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Thanks Cathy…there was an error in my typing, I appreciate your pointing this out to me. It’s fixed, and the article’s well worth reading or saving for some future need!
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the “10 simple ways..” link is dead for me, anyone else?
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For those interested (the 20% of viewers who actually clicked through to the article suggested in the post), here’s another simply-written source for ideas to utilize your newly-acquired info.
While it is seemingly to “promote your blog”, the tips can just as easily promote your shop’s web site.
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