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Most important holiday for resale: HalloweenBefore you bag up all your unsold summer clearance items, click to take a look at this PDF that HowToConsign.com offers consumers. Maybe it’ll give you

some ideas on what to SAVE from your final clear-out.

Collecting up unsold past-season goods to create a costume department in your shop is more than just a way to recycle. It’s more than just a way to make a few extra bucks late in October for the Hallowe’en-shopping folks.
It’s a way to
* Build traffic
* Create incredible Word Of Mouth
* Introduce a whole new demographic to your shop
* Have LOADS to talk about on your blog and Facebook… maybe even some hilarious photos of outfitted customers
* Have loads of fun and laughs

If you truly want to do all that, you need How to have a Frightfully Good Halloween and Build your Costume Business Year-Round which is available as a PDQ, and which, to be quite honest, is one of the most

easily-utilized Products for the Professional Resaler.

After all, we as resale shopkeepers know how to use everything to the max, right?

More ideas about what NOT to get rid of:

From Shop Sizzle:

Keep an eye out, when sorting through incoming, for items that you might not SELL, but that you could use as fixtures or equipment in your shop. Some ideas from Shop Sizzle include: flat velveteen pillows as a jewelry display piece, a well-washed linen tablecloth as backdrop in a display picture frame, a hand mirror to hang from a pretty ribbon in a dressing room for a back view.

And more ideas on this post to get you looking at things twice before you get rid of them: Can’t Consign It? Maybe you should…

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Continuing our a mini-series of posts about making your consignment, resale, or thrift shop’s web site do what you want it to do:

to get shoppers into your actual, physical, bricks-&-mortar, REAL store.

So far this week, we’ve been talking about what a visitor will see when s/he gets to your site, and how you can turn that idle interest into an actual shopping trip to your location.

But first, they have to FIND your site.

Which means (more…)

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Continuing our a mini-series of posts about making your consignment, resale, or thrift shop’s web site do what you want it to do:

to get shoppers into your actual, physical, bricks-&-mortar, REAL store.

Today, let’s self-diagnose. Pull up your web site and check 3 things.

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We’re in the middle of a mini-series of posts about making your consignment, resale, or thrift shop’s web site do what you want it to do:

to get shoppers into your actual, physical, bricks-&-mortar, REAL store.

Today, let’s take a close look at what your site is doing to (more…)

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