Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

Our Kudos today go to Panache Home, one of 3 local businesses in Rochester NY owned by Joan Lincoln (read more.)

It’s so easy to snap a quick shot for your social media of a piece on your sales floor. Like

 this one?

But it’s so much more tempting to do a quick collage of goods that fulfill a need… or a dream? This collage is hashtagged #lakehouse #cottage #summer and doesn’t it make you long to be in your lake cottage… if you only had one?

No time to do a collage? Then do an arrangement!

Now yes, these photos take some styling time (and talent!) and that first one, well, it’s quick is all I can say.

But the last two? They can be used not only to show current merchandise, but to illustrate the ambiance of the shop, what one could possibly find there, over and over again in social media, your website, printed brochures, press releases, business cards, banners for an exhibition booth. Emphasizing the feel of your shop, your branding, is worth the extra half-hour it took to create these, I think!

This post is the first in a week-long series of Kudos, ideas to inspire gathered from consignment, resale, & thrift shops that you might adapt or alter for YOUR business! Kudos Week is offered by TGTbT.com, the Premier Site for Professional Resalers, in celebration of International Resale Day, July 18. See more Kudos posts here.