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Found: A great Pinterest example for consignment & resale

Posted in economics of resale, Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on August 11, 2012| 1 Comment »

Too Good to be Threw uses Pinterest

Click to see how TGtbT.com uses Pinterest to appeal to its customers

Pinning is the perfect way to “say” a thousand words with one carefully chosen graphic.

Remember, people like pictures. If you’re not cross-linking your Pinterest with your other internet presences, you’re not using social media to the max.

I love the various boards, and the pins, on Best Bib and Tucker’s Pinterest page. Gathered here, all sorts of ideas that a shop’s target clientele would be interested in.

I’m still, after 10 minutes of scanning their web site and social media, totally flummoxed as to whether they actually HAVE a shop to shop in, but still, great boards, folks! Thanks for serving as a good example!

Gentle readers, are you interested in hearing more about how you can use Pinterest to build your in-store and/or on-line sales?

HowToConsign.com uses Pinterest

And here, how HowToConsign.com “talks” to the public, AKA your future customers…

I’ve collected up LOTS of resale-pertinent info about this. If you’d like me to gather it all together and present it for your use, simply click the “like” button below.

Enough interest, and I’ll make it happen!

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Will your consignment shop do well for Back to School?

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on August 8, 2012|

Love those Back-to-School, Fall’s-My-Favorite-Season (more…)

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Are negative comments hurting your feelings… and your business?

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on August 7, 2012| 5 Comments »

Consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepewrs need to deal with negative commentsIt’s inevitable. If you deal with the public, you’re going to get negative comments on the web.

Often. From all quarters.

All of these will hurt your feelings; many have the potential to damage your consignment, resale, or thrift shop.

So be prepared and know how to handle it.

Here’s (more…)

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Optimizing your consignment or resale shop web site: Spidey Eyes

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on August 3, 2012| 5 Comments »

Continuing our a mini-series of posts about making your consignment, resale, or thrift shop’s web site do what you want it to do:

to get shoppers into your actual, physical, bricks-&-mortar, REAL store.

So far this week, we’ve been talking about what a visitor will see when s/he gets to your site, and how you can turn that idle interest into an actual shopping trip to your location.

But first, they have to FIND your site.

Which means (more…)

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Are you ready for… Back To School?

Posted in economics of resale, Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on July 27, 2012| 1 Comment »

If your consignment, resale, or thrift shop sells children’s clothing, you KNOW what a season-maker B-T-S can be. So with the help of (more…)

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