This week, some tips about getting ready for NARTS Conference 2019. If you can’t make it to Conference, this week’s blog posts will still be useful in your everyday business life, so stay tuned!
As you pack for Conference, take a moment to imagine yourself on the way home! Here are some tips to make your trip home as easy as the trip to Conference:
You’ll have lots of literature. Be ready to sort it all out with a few file folders you’ve brought along. We’ve found the most useful folders to be those with closed sides, because they can corral paper, business cards, even scribbled notes on scraps with ease. Label your folders, maybe, like this:
- Workshops for handouts and the notes you took while in them,
- Ideas to Try for all those hints you get at meals or social events,
- Contacts for people you meet that you want to follow up with,
- To Do for things you’ve promised others to send, and
- SourceMart for catalogs and information collected from vendors.
Every evening, as you organize your literature back in your room, expand your notes while the info is still fresh in your mind.
You’ll have stuff you’ve bought. Prepare yourself to get it all home with extra plastic shopping bags. Use the empty bags to tuck around your clothes to keep them wrinkle-free, then pull them out and fill them with merchandise from SourceMart, freebies, and purchases you made on the Resale Shop bus tour. If you’re really a power shopper, consider packing a collapsible extra suitcase!
Keep essentials close at hand. Yes, you’ve heard it all before… but every year, someone has some sort of “shouldn’t have let it out of my sight” situation, and that will not be you, right? Prescription drugs, glasses, keys, plane tickets, wallets, device chargers, insurance cards should always be hand-carried, not checked. A tote or oversized handbag assures that you have what you need at all times.
On your trip home, mull over everything you’ve learned and make plans to put all that education to good use once you get back to your shop.
The best resalers have learned that those new ideas generate more than enough profit to pay for their trip to Conference and start a nest egg to attend Conference 2020!
To read all our posts about Conference, go here.
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 
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