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Community Events: Are you going about them all wrong?

Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged on August 12, 2013| 1 Comment »

What a community event can do for your consignment shopNow that you’re (hopefully) mentally back at work after those dreadful J months, it’s time to start looking ahead to
community promotions around you. Maybe it’s the Pumpkin Festival or Beggars’ Night or Black Friday or Holiday Lights that your consignment, resale or thrift shop will be a part of.

Whatever the reason for a community event, chances are you’re looking at your participation all wrong. It’s not all about the money. In fact, it’s barely about the (immediate) money.

Read this article on community events and I guarantee, next time you’ll

do it different and better. (get Resale’s BEST Promos here)

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DIY: Make a “back room” for your resale shoppers

Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on August 6, 2013| 4 Comments »

Some resale, thrift and consignment shopkeepers so loved the attention-getting ideas from an earlier post about getting shoppers into your back room, that they wanted ideas on actually how to

make back rooms out of open space!

At first thought, this is kinda weird, huh? But (more…)

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Donation Etiquette: An example to inspire you, from a non-profit thrift

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on June 25, 2013| 9 Comments »

Rung is a not-for-profit shop which operates with donated goods, and I think all resale shopkeepers can imagine (more…)

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Windows that WOW don’t happen by accident.

Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on May 29, 2013| 4 Comments »

Too Good to be Threw's Kate hHolmes helps you with Window Displays

Need window ideas especially for resale shops? Too Good to be Threw has lots in our 48-page PDQ!

We’ve taken the three wildly-useful Products for the Professional Resaler at TGtbT.com and combined them to make one big, 48-page PDQ that’s jam-packed with ways to make your shop’s display windows lure people into your consignment, resale or thrift shop, to sell them, and to

repeat your success over and over, every day of the week!

In fact, we toyed with calling this Product

Display. Sell. Repeat.

but decided, instead, to be straight-forward (more…)

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The Down-home Designer Consignment Shop

Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on May 8, 2013| 26 Comments »

I’ve been planning a Product for the Professional Resaler about, specifically, running a Designer Consignment shop recently. Lots of shops want the designer, exclusive buzz and shop branding … but have no desire to have (more…)

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