Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

Thinking of getting a resale map together?

If your shop has similar neighbors (and by neighbors, we mean in driving distance!) a simple handout could draw traffic to your business.

Such a handout needn’t be elaborate nor expensive to produce. Here’s an example that looks to be a third-sheet, heavy-stock paper. This is the type of brochure that could be easily printed and even replicated as needed by each shop:

Click to enlarge. Photos courtesy of sonomanews.com

And don’t think you’ll simply be siphoning off the other businesses’ traffic. A concerted effort like this will find all of you new customers and draw new folks nto resale-fandom. Not to mention press and blogger attention.

All a map like this requires is someone to contact participants and set a budget for participation, someone with minimal computer skills to do the layout, and someone to deliver and store the finished product. That should be three different folks; but if it’s all one person, this could even be a paying job. (That’s how my local map is produced, as a profit-making production.)

I suggest adding one thing to this layout. A spot for each shop to stamp/ print “Courtesy of [MyShop]” so the recipient feels especially warm to the shop that gave it to her/him!