If you have a resale, thrift or consignment shop, chances are that your business might be a mite slow over any holiday weekend, as your customers enjoy family gatherings, community events, or just kicking back.
Not that we wish slow sales upon you, but…
Consign to Design’s “front door” to their site. Find their live links on the Resale Shop Directory at HowToConsign
for an entrepreneur, this slow sales time could be a boon. It gives you time to research, try out, do some of those pesky details inherent in running your social media.
Maybe this series on Auntie Kate the Blog might be your weekend task:
Optimizing your Web Site for Resale Shoppers
Start here with Day One and follow the “next post” to see all four in the series
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 
Holidays have always intrigued me when planning my business (still in the planning stage). I will buy your book (I promise! once things settle down) but there are so many questions I have about staying open on holidays.
I’ve always wanted to shop on holidays so if my favorite thrift store were open, I’d be there. In that vein of thinking, I’ve considered staying open on holidays for at least a limited number of hours.
I’m sure you’ve read our post a few weeks back about holidays and closing. It’s so dependent on the patterns of activity in your community. Thanks for joining in the conversation!
I must have seen it because I liked it… 🙂 but it slipped my mind. Stressful times here right now. Sorry!
I like busy days AND slow days at my nonprofit resale Shop in Chicago. On busy days I make money, and slow days are the days I get to change displays, attend to organizing chores, take pics of merchandise for Craigslist, etc., which essentially make me money, too, just not instantly.
So true, Heidi… there’s ALWAYS something to do, isn’t there? That’s why it always mystifies me when a shop closes early on “slow days” as a matter of course: those last few hours are perfect for all the chores on our never-ending to-do lists!