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Deja Vuesday: How’s your web site lookin’?

Posted in Deja Vuesday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on March 12, 2013|

After all, some Auntie Kate messages are, ahem, Too Good to be Threw!

Click the image for more Deja Vuesday posts that are too good to be threw from TGtbT.com

Deja Vuesday

where you can visit a gently-used, blog post in case you missed it the first time. It’s even better the second time around.

Lots of discussion recently on the various discussion groups on consignment, resale and thrift store web sites. So it’s time to take another look at

Optimizing your shop’s web site.

 

And while we’re on the subject, have you taken the Too Good to be Threw Website Ranking Quiz? Or studied our week-long series on whether your site’s doing the best job to get shoppers into your actual, physical, bricks-&-mortar, REAL store? Or read the handout from last year’s workshop? This is all at our Blogging for Consignment, Resale & Thrifts page on TGtbT.com.

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So what’s to see in your shop?

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on March 11, 2013|

An excerpt from How to Switch Seasons Easily & Profitably, a TG Product for the Professional Resaler:

That awkward “in-between” season

So what’s to see in your shop in those switch-over months?

If your seasonal clearance is over and done with, and the new season is not yet coming in in great quantities, what will you be selling?

* The new incoming, which is not (more…)

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‘Tis the season… for seasonal consignment sales

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on March 9, 2013| 3 Comments »

Seasonal consignment sales are a growth industry.

And now is the time for them. They’re popping up all over, both the franchise/license sales and the independent.

How will your year-round store front for consignment, resale, or thrift deal with this? Will these sales hurt your business or help it? It’s not as cut-&-dried as you may think.

Some things to (more…)

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Bribing them to clean their closets on time.

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on March 7, 2013|

It's cuckoo not to MOTIVATE your suppliers, says Too Good to be ThrewGetting in the new season’s consignments when your customers want to BUY it, rather than when your consignors want to clear it, is always a challenge.

See how one chain motivates their consignors… with a bigger cut and with some “reward money.”

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Enter the Armoire

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on March 6, 2013| 2 Comments »

I just loved this photo I pinned today, and the visions of display windows it started in my over-heated consignment/ resale brain, so I have to expand on the idea!

Here’s the pin that started (more…)

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