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Motivate them on the weekend!
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignors, customers, resale shopkeeping, Twitter, web on May 5, 2013|
Using hangtags to show value in consignment
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk on April 19, 2013| 5 Comments »
We were talking about customers wanting to be guided to value in yesterday’s post.
Then someone reminded me of Clothes Circuit in Dallas, which reminded me of this photo I took there of their hangtags:
Clothes Circuit helps guide their shoppers:
they have hangtags on Designer goods and no hangtags on standard goods…
then this hangtag/ classification, Fashion Edge, the “bridge” price points/brands, on things that are in between the true luxe brands and the average.
Helps customers navigate the balance between desire and their personal budgets, with the added bonus of making any shop look like a “real” shop.
No more shoving racks around or guessing what will fit.
Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged merchandising, resale shopkeeping on December 29, 2012| 3 Comments »
With a little finagling, you can plan out your new store layout for 2013 without a lot of sweat and shoving. Just use (more…)
Easy as 1-2-3: Your Holiday Gift Conundrum Solved
Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged holidays, resale shopkeeping on November 27, 2012| 3 Comments »
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Print out this page
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Select which items which will help your business thrive in 2013 and circle them
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Give this now-circled page to your spouse, significant other, life partner, parents, kids, having stapled to it, your “Life Wish List”… anything from a world cruise to the finest higher education you could wish for a child or grandchild… that you plan on earning with
your talents and a little guidance from Too Good to be Threw Products for the Professional Resaler.
There. Now everyone knows what you want for your present (and future!) And aren’t you happy you won’t be getting one of those cellophaned “Christmas towers” from Walmart.
Gift Wrapping the Earth-Friendly Way
Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged holidays on November 24, 2012| 2 Comments »
We all know how awful one-use wrapping paper is. (There’s better ways to present gifts than using dye-heavy paper, made of trees and chemicals and shipped around the world only to be regulated to the garbage within minutes. Never thought about it? Read this.)
(Side note: Make this topic into a promotion for your consignment, resale or thrift shop. Two ideas from Too Good to be Threw.)
So let’s use more eco-friendly paper and our imagination. Yes, kraft* paper can be not only interesting and fun, but beautiful. These ideas are from a Pinterest board of their own over on HowToConsign.com’s Pinterest.
* (Side note: Kraft paper is called that because the German word for “strong” is “kraft.” Kraft paper is made to be strong, which is why those brown paper bags from the grocery can each hold, oh, I dunno, about $160 worth of groceries.)
Who doesn’t love polka dots? Kraft paper, paint sample cards, and a punch = sophisticated wrap!
See dozens more Kraft paper gift wrap suggestions.
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