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If your shop’s web site has a link to any of HowToConsign.com‘s pages and articles (“How to Prepare Your Items” is a favorite!), or to any one of HowToConsign.org‘s blog posts (maybe “9 Tips to Avoid Consignment Hassles with your Fashion Apparel” or “9 Tips to Avoid Consignment Hassles with your Home Decor” would pre-educate incoming suppliers?) just send me the URL of your page, and get this frameable print (without the watermark, of course) for free!

Oh yeh, and I’ll also put your shop’s web site on the #1 Google-ranked Resale Shop Directory! But then, you knew that.

To be a Resaler printable graphic

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Is it dreary around your neck of the woods? Would a little spring color help enliven your consignment or resale shop windows and swing shops? Here’s some Pinspiration from the TGtbT boards:

Bright colors from the ceiling down look great over furniture displays or dress form outfits. Remember doing these in grade school?

Ice cream cones: what could be yummier in a kidswear window? Surprisingly easy to make for your shop!

Another “remember when?” craft from your prepubescent years. These lanterns look especially wonderful used in tight groupings of 3 or 5.

Need more resale-specific window dressing ideas? You got ’em in Window Displays Especially for Resale Shops

Windows that WOW don’t happen by accident. Learn the hidden secrets of resale eye candy that nobody tells you and how to make awesome displays of your one-of-a-kind merchandise as you Display. Sell. Repeat your way to awesome profits. This 48-page PDQ shows you how to choose, create, and sell everything with affordable, time-effective ways to DIY your own “Windows Worth a Thousand Words.”

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      * what windows can do for your bottom line
      * how to learn (for free!) from the professionals
      * tools and concepts about window displays
      * ready-made themes for every week of the year
      * our famous 77 Suggestions for Super Windows
      * plus Display Ideas from A to Z

Includes a 10-point checklist for staffers to follow, FAQs, and ideas from shopkeepers like you! Make your business stand out from the crowd with windows that WOW! Order your own PDF of The Big Book of Window Displays now.

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If I could treat all my resale friends to a piece of celebratory cake today for International Resale Day, I would! But instead, here’s (more…)

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The itch to BUY something happens to even the most dedicated resale shopkeepers once in a while. Usually around this time of year, when retail advertising picks up and you think you might just DIE if you don’t get something new, or at least, new-to-you.

But as a professional, dedicated to the continuing success and profit of your consignment, resale or thrift shop, you want to make every splurge count, so here are some ideas of how to satisfy your craving:

Splurges Big & Small for Resalers

(And here’s a couple more ideas to add to the examples in the article: )

Countertop display case

This countertop display case gets your most precious smalls right at eye level. Switch displays out weekly.

hanger foamie

Hard as it is to believe, some clothing consignment or resale shops don’t know what a foamie is! Keep clothes from slipping off and pad the shoulders of knits, with these covers.

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Just a Sunday evening video (more…)

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