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Blogging for Resale Shops
Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, customers, resale shopkeeping, web on July 2, 2012| 2 Comments »
Add this to your employer arsenal
Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, success on June 20, 2012|
I am fascinated by the Zappos List of Core Values as presented to their staffers.
I think most of these points are directly applicable to resale, thrift, and consignment shops, don’t you? What might you re-word, re-direct, in this list?
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Have you Hawthorned your helpers lately?
Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged employees, success on June 13, 2012| 6 Comments »
Who knew? Amazing, the Hawthorne Effect.
The 
retaildoc talks about the Hawthorne Effect, and offers a simple14-question employee review form you can download here.
More on the Hawthorne Effect. And what a straw boss is.
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If it’s good enough for a state… maybe it’s good enough for you?
Posted in quotations of use, Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising on May 30, 2012| 3 Comments »
Ran across slogans for states. Thought of you.
After all, some tax-payer money went into these slogans, so if you paid for them, how about adapting them to your consignment, resale, or thrift shop?
Think about:
Beyond Your Dreams, Within Your Reach Doesn’t this strike a chord for those shops which specialize in the truly dream-luscious brands? A bit snobby, maybe, when applied to resale goods, but then again…
Find Yourself Here For shops which brand themselves as unique, indie fashion/ style presenters. Get it? “Find yourself”? No? Well.
Celebrate & Discover Well, this has possibilities, maybe… if your shop has lots of party wear and other stuff.
More Than You Can Imagine If you have a vast selection of goods in a seriously-large storefront, this might work.
Feels Like Coming Home Great if your home goods/ furnishings store specializes in carefully-arranged vignettes; not so good if you have the whole dusty-attic-mishmash thing going. The mishmash approach is perfectly fine, just (hopefully) it’s not like coming home. So you might, for a wonderfully-full messy treasure trove of a store, consider altering Big Sky Country to Big Buy Country. Or use Land of Enchantment, that’d be good. I’d go for that.
To see which slogan has been/ was applied to which state, visit the Wikipedia list. To my Canadian friends: I tried to include slogans for Canadian provinces, but really. See what I mean.A little PINspiration for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers… and a gateway to many more
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, Pinterest on May 4, 2012| 1 Comment »
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