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Guerilla Marketing, Resale Style

May 10, 2016 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

What’s guerilla marketing? According to the dictionary it’s

innovative, unconventional, and low-cost marketing techniques aimed at obtaining maximum exposure for a product.

Sounds like it’s just up the alley for our consignment and resale shops, right? Like these twosigns, stapled to electric poles, for a small gift shop.

Have you seen this shop?

A play on lost pet flyers, right down to the yellow copy paper… and the tear-off strips with the shop’s address!

160511 love me sign 2

Rambling, stream-of-conscious passage here, discussing all the wares the shop had that could help improve the reader’s life… a similar message could work as well, for a blog post or reading matter in the local coffee shop!

Alas, the shop closed in 2012. But the ideas will never die! Read the author’s blog post.

Never encountered the Guerilla Marketing books? Although the originals were written pre-social media, they are still treasure chests of low-cost, quirky, high-word-of-mouth ideas. I highly recommend them to consignment, thrift and resale shops who want to keep their heads above the waters of the Sea of Sameness.

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Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk | Tagged advertising, resale shopkeeping, sea of sameness, word of mouth | 4 Comments

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  1. on November 4, 2016 at 10:14 pm Crystal's avatar Crystal

    I love that have you seen this store flyer! What an awesome way to take advantage of those bulletin boards around town! So simple, affordable and effective. Thanks so much for finding and sharing all these great ideas!


  2. on May 11, 2016 at 1:14 am Jamie's avatar Jamie

    Love it


  3. on May 10, 2016 at 5:37 pm betterthannew's avatar betterthannew

    Love that personality!


    • on May 10, 2016 at 5:50 pm Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw's avatar Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

      Me too…I’d be beating my feet down that side street in a heartbeat! (Wow, what a sentence. Sometimes I amaze myself 😉 )



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