Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

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1. on July 5, 2012 at 7:57 pm 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses | TEKTON WEB DESIGN

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2. on June 4, 2012 at 5:27 pm 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses « KNunez Web Design

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3. on June 4, 2012 at 2:43 pm Sharon

   Hi Auntie Kate. Thanks for sharing the articles. I like to follow @MarkRaganCEO who writes and reposts about social media and PR a lot. Where did you make your word cloud? Yours is one of the best ones I’ve seen!

   
   
   • on June 4, 2012 at 2:57 pm Auntie Kate

     Thanks Sharon. My cloud (the area entitled “Read more about” in the right column here on the blog) is simply the tags I have used on my posts. It’s a standard optional widget in wordpress.com. I’m actually, in my (ha) spare time consolidating the tags to minimize that area, and would be interested to learn if anyone ever actually USES it.

     
     
     • on June 5, 2012 at 10:34 am Sharon

       Kate: the cloud at the top of the screen that is multicolored (operations is in the top left) is the one I was referring to. It looks great! -Sharon

       
       
       • on June 5, 2012 at 11:14 am Auntie Kate

         Oh, the illustration in my header, those green and blue words? It’s from using a free service http://www.wordle.net/, great fun to play with. Only problem is, is that you have to capture any results you like with a screen capture program, and as you can see, it doesn’t come out beautiful and crisp. Maybe me capture program is at fault. Read the FAQs there re saving your results.

         
         
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5. on May 28, 2012 at 6:50 pm Donna

   Hello–I have posted pictures on FB and I find most time the response if great. If my customers see something they like I will hold it for 24 hours or most time they come in and buy it the next day after they see the photo. I try to update the pictures as much as I can so they can see the overturn in stock.

   
   
6. on May 28, 2012 at 2:14 pm mony6924

   Hi Kate – we use Facebook quite a bit to post photos and generate interest in newly arrived items. A lot of people will comment asking us to hold an item – we’ll put their name on it for 24 hours. Only about 1/2 of them actually come in and buy. Some people are grateful that we held the item, while others present in the store are annoyed that they can’t purchase what they see. Any thoughts on holds? Wondering what other shops do.

   
   
   • on May 28, 2012 at 2:45 pm Auntie Kate

     Hi mony6924, Would it be possible to put hold items somewhere not visible to shoppers? Even if you have to drape (attractively, an attractive) sheet over them?
     One of the tactics I was famous (in a small way of course) for back when I worked for a national chain of stores, was to make sure the store managers put the worst-selling items on the (VERY visible) hold rack with a big “hold for…” sign. Worked like a charm… everyone wanted, all of a sudden, to buy it! 😉
     And congrats… if you have 50% of those who comment on FB that they want you to hold it actually come in and buy it, you’re doing FABULOUS!

     
     

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