Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk on May 10, 2011|
(and if we are talented consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers as well) we keep selling stuff off our displays and ending up with blank spots.
Instead of just balancing (more…)
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged markdowns, merchandising, resale shopkeeping on May 9, 2011| 3 Comments »
Last week, we asked readers about their merchandising strategy for the very tail end of their clearance sales: goods which hadn’t sold during a scheduled markdown, then didn’t sell at the seasonal clearance sale either. For
what’s their (more…)
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life on May 7, 2011|
Whitman's Samplers came adorned with a pink paper carnation to give to mothers who had living mothers; with a white carnation for those whose mothers had passed on.
For those who still have their mothers, or who are mothers themselves, or who mother others who aren’t their children,
To my mother, thanks for having me. If you like, you can read a little bit about my mother’s life as a mother here and her life as a consignment shop owner in the 1950’s here.
Posted in Shopkeeping talk on May 6, 2011|
I
just saw an immaculate pair of
marketed by a very sleek consignment shop. Beautiful shoes. I saw these shoes because of a tantalizing tweet. But oops… the shop directed me to a photo of these shoes on yfrog. Apparently, yfrog is a free app.
1- There was no way to buy these, or ask the shop to hold them until I could make it in. All I could do was drool.
2- There was no link on yfrog or the tweet back to the shop’s (very professional) site. Heck, there wasn’t even a CLUE as to where these shoes could be obtained. So the business didn’t gain an ounce of recognition for having these incredible shoes.
And on top of THAT? Turns out, in fact, that said site says “back soon” (I guess they had to take it down to redesign it? NOT. Any web master that says so is either lazy or not attuned to marketing or dumb.) Site message says nothing about how the shop could still be followed on FB or Twitter.
3- Meanwhile, their FB page (found only because I was doing my Sherlock Holmes impersonation) didn’t say diddley about the site being unusable. The Twitter site sends folks off into the unusable web site (don’t they know that just in case, this can be changed for a length of time, if necessary?). What a fiasco. Especially because this shop has a big fashion show coming up the day before Mother’s Day (Marvelous promo…great day for a fashion show… what a nice M-Day gift for their clients to give!)
4-The ad right next to the photo of these elegant shoes on yfrog? It read:
Not the image they were going for, I suspect.
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk on May 5, 2011| 8 Comments »
(and if we are talented consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers as well) we have some great merchandise to take quick shots of so we can post them online. Let me show you how much
Photo’s great but darn those fluorescents. They make (more…)
Too Good to be Threw is the flagship site of the TGtbT Family of Sites for the Professional Resalers
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