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Kudos: Furnishings Fotos

Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , on July 16, 2018| 3 Comments »

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

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Getting into their closets

Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on March 23, 2018| 1 Comment »

We were talking, over on social media, about creating some sort of client gift that would initiate incoming, and keep incoming coming in season after season.

Ideas ranged from creating labels to be carefully stuck to purchased blank size rings like these examples from House Of Consignment and Your Best Friend’s Closet to full-on “Closet Kits” (be sure to click over to read this!), this is an idea any womenswear consignment or resale shop could easily use. And if you run a nonprofit thrift shop? These would make terrific giveaways/ swag bag inserts for any classy fund raising event of your NGO.

As one shopkeeper, Marianne Evans of Your Best Friend’s Closet says:

Ladies, these are amazing for so many reasons! First the consignors now have an easy way to sort their items, either seasonally or style-wise. So instead of putting it back in their closet they put it to the side of the marker. Second it has your name in their closet everyday all the time so they are thinking about you. And lastly consigners think I am an absolute genius to have and I quote, thought of everything!

 

Get your shop name into potential consignment clients' closets!

Get your shop name into potential consignment clients’ closets!

Another choice could be the printed door-hanger. Readily available and easily designed online, these heavy-weight, glossy-coated handouts are quick to create.

Get your shop name into their closet

Designed to hang on a doorknob, these hang on most closet rods as well!

Like Dwight’s Closet Kit, you can include your yearly schedule along with, of course, all your contact info and a handful of tips on how to make the most money with your consignments.

Door-hangers are available at gotprint.com which is where I grabbed the photo (and which offers to mail you a sample kit so you can choose paper, etc), Vistaprint, Nextdayfliers, and just about any printing service. Goimprints , especially, has a wide variety of shapes to choose from.

You can even print your own doorhangers with stock from Avery if you’d like to dabble before plunging; the Avery forms have a tear-away portion which would be fun to use as a raffle drawing entry, a discount useable when they bring in their early-season consignment, or something you think up yourself!

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Kudos: Your Local Resale Shops Brochure

Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on February 26, 2018| 4 Comments »

If your area doesn’t have a brochure of local resale shops to offer customers, and if you’ve tried to rally your peers to create one without success, (more…)

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Bet YOU have some great advocates too!

Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , , , on February 24, 2018| 2 Comments »

Azalea had SUCH a great idea: Invite fashion-savvy, outgoing, customers to create a look out of your merchandise in stock and model it for you… wow! Now this is a Kudos idea!

Kudos because:

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Simple, stunning… and tasty Valentine’s Day contest!

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk on February 2, 2018| 2 Comments »

Kate's buddy Cindy of MAM used this for a contest... and its prize!Cindy Valdez of MAM in Houston TX, shared this idea that she used last Valentine’s Day. On the NFP Facebook group, she said, to her fellow shopkeepers, (more…)

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