Posted in Deja Vuesday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, competition, consignors, resale shopkeeping, small business on April 9, 2013|
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Chances are, you’re missing the biggest, easiest, most productive way to improve the quality of incoming consignments ever. And it’s SO easy and SO cheap to do. It works for all types of merchandise. It basically costs nothing. It doesn’t (more…)
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged display, resale shopkeeping on April 7, 2013| 5 Comments »
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, resale shopkeeping, small business, web on April 5, 2013| 5 Comments »
A resale shopkeeper posted something on a private Facebook page that I thought intriguing. So I wanted to “find her [business page] on Facebook.” Guess what? It took me 5 tries to actually find her shop on Facebook… because FB’s search tool is not the world’s most stunning example of utility.
Sure, you can SAY and PUBLISH “Find us on Facebook” all you want… but will they? Unless you make it easy, most Internet users won’t. Maybe they don’t know (more…)
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged display on April 4, 2013|
For resale shops who are new, or who have moved to a new location, paying for signage can be a hefty chunk of available funds.
For other shops, an item on their want list could be pedestrian-level signage on their window glass.
And for those shops in locations with draconian laws about signage, maybe behind-the-glass signage could help
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged email on April 1, 2013| 3 Comments »
If you use a service like Constant Contact for your email blasts, you may not be getting as much of an audience for your message as you’d wish.
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