Another I’ve been meaning to tell you… idea from elsewhere, ideas others explain so well:
Oh, these are JUST TOO GOOD if yours is a childrenswear consignment or resale shop:
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Make your kidstuff consignment shop a Must-Stop.
Posted in I've been meaning to tell you, tagged kidswear on October 3, 2009|
Getting Complaints is Like Winning the Lottery!
Posted in I've been meaning to tell you, tagged customers on September 28, 2009|
If you aren’t thrilled and excited to get a customer complaint in your consignment or resale shop, you should be.
Oh sure, it’s a trial and a blow to your ego and (more…)
Your blog is your mothership
Posted in economics of resale, I've been meaning to tell you, Shopkeeping talk, tagged blogging on August 31, 2009| 2 Comments »
Your blog is your mothership. 
How true…and how useful for us is this thought!
I see an awful lot of “abandoned”…or might-as-well-be-abandoned …blogs in ResaleLand.
Is yours one? Why’s it so? Or even more to the point…why don’t you have and use one?
What would make (more…)
How long should your email, ad, blog message be?
Posted in I've been meaning to tell you on August 16, 2009|
I get a LOT of email on this: consignment and resale shopkeepers are worried about the attention span of their clientele. How many words should my ad be? Will I bore them? Can I say it in 140 characters?
Length doesn’t (more…)
Can you read minds?
Posted in I've been meaning to tell you, Shopkeeping talk on May 8, 2009|
I’ve been meaning to tell you: Being a problem solver behooves your business better than being an order taker. Especially in our inventory-always-changing, dynamic resale/ consignment/ thrift industry!
You don’t have to be a mind reader: all you have to do is care about learning what problem your customer wants to solve and finding a substitution.
Substitute selling involves (more…)
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