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You have a right to brag.

Posted in economics of resale, Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on March 23, 2012| 1 Comment »

Your shop does good. So tell your community that.Don’t forget, I told you that

you have a right to brag.

I know. It’s hard (more…)

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Online Oxfam: NFP with real staying power!

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on March 10, 2012|

A well-known nonprofit thrift operation in Great Britain, OxfamIf you’re a resale fan, and if you’ve visited Britain, chances are you’re familiar with the Oxfam charity shops. In fact, in my pantry I have a cherished tea canister that I bought in an Oxfam shop… in Bath, if I remember… almost 30 years ago!

It’s fun to poke around other shops, and enlightening as well. Looking at their brands and pricing, seeing how they appeal to shoppers and donors, what good your shopping dollars will do. And now you can do it without the transAtlantic flight!

Take a look at Oxfam’s online presence.

And don’t miss their two other areas of focus online: their Ethical Collection and Oxfam Unwrapped. I can totally see “NAM Unwrapped” or “Hospice Unwrapped”… can your charity make use of this idea?

Not a nonprofit thrift shop or NFP resale shop? There’s an idea

waiting for you as well on the Oxfam site: Shelflife. A simple, non-electronic tweak to this idea could be a good WOM addition to some of your more-unusual pieces!

Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organisations working in more than 90 countries worldwide to find lasting solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world. In all Oxfam’s actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives. —Wikipedia

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Untapped consignment or donation resource?

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on February 17, 2012| 7 Comments »

I got a phone call once from my area’s foremost dry cleaning company.Dry cleaners can be a source for consignment, resale & thrift shops.

“Wanna come look at our unclaimed stuff?”

So there I was, in the (more…)

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Have you done your bragging lately?

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk on January 22, 2012| 1 Comment »

Hey, you do good. For your community. For the earth. For your consignors. Your shoppers. Your clients.

So brag on it.

Humility doesn’t (more…)

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New use for old entertainment centers

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on December 28, 2011| 12 Comments »

Okay, for all of your furniture consignment shops, resale home decor places, non-profit thrift stores who get all those entertainment centers in…. that no one wants anymore.

I’ll bet you’re tired of suggesting to customers they could be turned into home offices

or pantries.

Or even laundry room organizers.

So here’s a new idea. Super-cute play kitchen (notice the poster as window! And the chandelier! I would have killed for my very own chandelier at that age.)

Entertainment center turned.... well, entertainment center, right?

Printing these ideas out, slipping them into a plastic sleeve or plexi sign holder to inspire browsers… might sell a few of those behemoths.

My thanks to Susan Carleton, who posted the pink kitchen photo on her Pinterest page and got me started on this. Warning! Don’t go to Pinterest. Even though I’m on it too. You’ll go on wondrous journeys throughout the internet while your laundry will mildew, your family members starve, and the hair on your legs will drape over your tennies.
 
Click the photos for sources… some of THEM, have their sources….

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