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It’s Spring: Garage & yard sales are waiting to cut into your business.

April 6, 2011 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Resale, consignment and thrift shops need special tactics to compete with garage and yard salesIt’s Spring: Garage & yard sales are waiting to cut into your business. Are you gonna just sit there and let that happen?

Do you find your warm-weather weekend days falling off in traffic and sales due to garage sales?

12 Ways to Beat Garage Sales

can help you keep figures up and turn those summer Fridays and Saturdays into great days for your business.

You can compete with yard, tag, rummage, garage sales. And actually, you must. What, you say, you don’t need to…your clientele wouldn’t be caught dead at a garage sale? Willing to bet your daily totals on that?

Do your weekend sales go into in a slump during garage sale season? Do you see fewer and fewer good items come in to your shop? If so, there are simple and inexpensive solutions. Cultivate a few, and watch your sales grow!

Gain new techniques to:

  • Let them know that you have what they want
  • Waylay Shoppers
  • Give them more than they’d get “out there”
  • Beat them to the punch

And eight more tactics, just waiting for you to apply them to your shop. I guarantee, you’ll make more in the first hour after you apply the 12 lessons in

12 Ways to Beat Garage Sales

than you’ll spend adding this file to your business resource library.

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  1. on July 3, 2012 at 8:19 pm Unknown's avatar Deja Vuesday: Don’t just sit there and take it. « Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

    […] They’re cutting into your business.  Yes, even if you think “We don’t deal in garage sale stuff.” Can I tell you of the luxury items I have found at ridiculous prices at garage sales? Well, I don’t have to, do I, ’cause you’ve found them too, or have customers gleefully tell you their stories all day long! […]



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