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Incoming, 45 weeks before you need it.
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged buy-outright, holidays, resale shopkeeping on January 1, 2019|
As your consignors, sellers, donors tidy up after the holidays, they are faced with the BIG decision: Is this worth keeping ’til next year?
The ugly Christmas sweater, holiday decor, entertaining extras from folding chairs to poinsettia- bedecked table runners. Little velvet dresses and silly family PJs. The Santa that lights up, the twig reindeer.
If their decision is no, they don’t want to keep and store things… and if you want that stuff (keep reading, you will…) … (more…)
Started off on the wrong foot?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignors, customers, daily operations, resale shopkeeping on December 28, 2018|
If you started off on the wrong foot, if you’ve gone off on the wrong fork in the road, if you’ve been barking up the wrong tree, how are you going to get back on your business back on track and
how can you have your customers, your clients, your suppliers, your donors behind you, rooting for that change?
Now, there are different reasons why you might want to make a significant change in your consignment, resale or thrift shop. The first of course, is you misjudged your market somehow. The second one is that the market actually changed on you. You may have opened six months ago, you may have opened six years ago or 16 years ago, but your market somehow has changed. So you’re going to have to make a change in the way you run your business. And the third reason that you might want to be looking at changing is because you yourself have changed.
So let’s talk about change, why you need to do it, how are you going to do it, and how you’re going to get everybody on your side when you do it.
Now, the first: misjudging your market. That’s easy to do. What actually (more…)
After-Christmas Bonanza for Resale!
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged christmas, profit, promotions, resale shopkeeping, success on December 26, 2018|
Okay, so you haven’t had time to catch your breath yet. There’s hay to make in the holiday sunshine, so schedule that deep breath for a few weeks in the future:
You have business to cultivate!
Here’s money-makers, reputation-polishers, and heck, just
5 Last-Minute Holiday Checkup List for Resale Shops
Posted in Shopkeeping talk on December 18, 2018|
Got all your Christmas balls in a row? It’s time to:
- Turn your swing shop into a Stocking Stuffer Shop: Pile on the (more…)
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