Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, resale shopkeeping on February 3, 2011|
Big snowdrifts and low temperaturesmean consignment, resale, and thrift store owners have plenty of thinking time right now. How about the tiny tweaks that bring the biggest results? Some ideas:
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Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignors, HowToConsign.com on February 2, 2011|
I had a consignor whose husband owned a local, large, and public company. One day, this woman consigned a NWT item she’d bought mere weeks earlier for $1300. She couldn’t be bothered, she implied, to return it to the luxury merchant where she’d bought it, so she’d just let me sell it…for whatever.
That night, I did some back-of-the-envelope figuring. I knew how much her husband earned as a salary because the corporation was public. I compared it to what I was earning.
No wonder she couldn’t be bothered to return it. I’ve never returned a Hershey’s bar in my life.
Here’s hoping some consignors like that find your shop through your listing on HowToConsign.com’s Clickable Map & Directory.
Parker’s photo from http://fashionuncensored.blogspot.com. The chocolate bar is gently-bitten.Posted in Deja Vuesday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, blogging, web on February 1, 2011|
A weekly feature for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers. Visit a gently-used, recycled blog post. It’s even better the second time around. Because some info here on Auntie Kate is just Too Good to be Threw.
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