Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged merchandising, resale shopkeeping, selling on July 27, 2013| 1 Comment »
Hope all my consignment, resale and thrift shopkeeper friends are merchandising summer still… this is the time of year when folks need just a few more things to get them through til fall, and resale is often the ONLY place to find something “for this weekend”, once the malls start stocking corduroy!
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Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, consignment, consignors, HowToConsign.com, profit, selling, shop local on July 26, 2013| 3 Comments »
TGtbT.com is happy to announce that every Saturday morning from now until mid-December, the Sponsors of HowToConsign.com have made possible
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Posted in Shopkeeping talk on July 26, 2013|
I just ran across this 5-word piece of advice to entrepreneurs from Co-Founder of Square and Twitter Jack Dorsey-
The WHY of this post was, “come see our new location, which is right here.” Unless this shop moved to the sun, what has a sunset got to do with anything?
And it’s something I need to learn, to keep in mind, to cross-stitch to my screen or have tattooed on my knuckles, because I can be as ineffective as a beginning shopkeeper sometimes if I don’t remember to ask myself, every time :
Why are you making this offer or writing this email in your resale shop? Why are you having this event in your consignment shop? Why are you social-media-ing this topic on your NFP thrift shop Facebook? What’s your goal here? Why are you doing/ offering. saying this?
Unless you know the WHYs of what you’re working on in your business, you won’t know the hows, the whens, or the whats or even, the therefores of your action.
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged holidays, Products for the Professional Resaler, profit, word of mouth on July 24, 2013|
You could even create your holiday window display now, while you still have some free time in your shop.
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Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, resale shopkeeping on July 23, 2013| 1 Comment »
July is usually the month that resalers catch their breath before jumping headlong into the fall season. It’s a good time to brush up on some…
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