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Out & about in Sarasota

Posted in economics of resale, Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, tagged , , , on April 25, 2013| 2 Comments »

Two different store fronts had me reaching for my camera this week:

Cute shop brochure holder, about 40 inches tall, outside a dress shop, Daisy Cotton. Did you notice her arms are crescent moons?

Daisy Cotton's cute card holder

And this one. Kudos for HAVING a “coming soon” sign, un-kudos for not telling us what to watch for, for the messy paper and amateur lettering. Plus, there’s a kids’ shop next door that they had not yet introduced themselves to. Wouldn’t this be an obvious thing  any entrepreneur would do?

coming soon

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A quotation made for resale shopkeepers.

Posted in quotations of use, Shopkeeping talk on April 24, 2013| 7 Comments »

Are you ever tempted to roll your eyes at some resale, consignment, thrift suggestion from your Auntie Kate and say

“That takes way too much time to happen.”

What do you imagine will happen, if you decide to (more…)

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Sharon makes name badges for her consignment shop

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on April 22, 2013| 2 Comments »

Recently, Sharon Munroe of Little Green Beans in Austin TX, sent me an intriguing link she thought might be helpful for her fellow HTC Sponsors.

Little Green Beans Austin TX helps TGtbT.com readers

Name badges stay on the side of a filing cabinet when not being worn.

So what did I do? I suggested she give us a report on these Reusable Name Badges. Just a quick note, I said. Here’s (more…)

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5 things to do real quick for Earth Day in your consignment, resale, or thrift shop

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on April 21, 2013|

Resalers can raise eco-awareness

Resalers can raise eco-awareness

As tomorrow’s Earth Day, some thoughts about running your green resale business to be ever greener

and from AuntieKate, a quiz called How many Earths does it take?

and best of all,  5 quick-quick things you can do right now to celebrate tomorrow, Earth Day, with your Facebook fans, Twitter followers, blog readers, email subscribers.

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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 in Dallas is a HowToConsign.com Sponsor

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.

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