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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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Dept of Labor declares consignors and volunteers are employees.

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, Used Stuff in the News on June 22, 2013| 4 Comments »

Don't you build that bear without ffiling your employment forms, young man!More over-zealous government poking-in-business news.

Children’s consignment business under scrutiny for labor practice

Why? Because, the US Dept of Labor claims,  consignors or volunteers are in fact employees (more…)

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Being social: does it make you into a Content Thief?

Posted in Shopkeeping talk on June 21, 2013| 6 Comments »

Great article on the difference between content curation vs. content scraping on this Vertical Response blog entry.

It's possible to be a content thief in your slippers.Content Curation is something most of us do everyday when we (more…)

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International Resale Week is 2 weekends long!

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged on June 20, 2013|

International Resale Week, especially designed to call attention to consignment, resale and thrift shops, is July 13-21 this year: That’s TWO weekends this time around: TWICE the opportunity to do something great to turn the J month of July into a great excuse for shopping! Resale makes my heart RACE!

Here’s just one idea that’s easy to pull together and should merit some media attention with a nudge or two from participating shops:

I’ve seen shops who gave out “shopping passes”… little passports with a shop per page. If they had at least X shops stamp that they visited over a time period, they left their passport at the last shop… then all were put in a drawing for GCs.

Here’s some ideas I urged resale shopkeepers to start thinking about in August for… International Resale Day 2010. And what I did to celebrate International Resale Day in 2011 (we’re now past 10,000 comments!)

I hereby give any of you permission, whether or not you have chosen to add your shop to the HTC Resale Directory, to use this graphic for any of your shop promotions, at any time of year, but of course, the line in red, HowToConsign.com must remain. You may NOT remove that line and use my graphic, or I will personally see to it that the Resale Gods frown upon your meager, measly soul. I do need to know where you’ve used it, though, so let me know via email.

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Back to School Super Saturday: Will your consignment or resale be there?

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on June 19, 2013| 1 Comment »

Back to School is an important selling period in consignment and resale shopsAre you ready for another “national shopping holiday”? According to the New York Times,

Teen Vogue magazine, published by the Condé Nast division of Advance Publications, sought last year to make back-to-school even bigger with an elaborate promotion (more…)

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