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Ho ho, I’m off doing the shopping thing…
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged holidays, resale shopkeeping, selling, starting a consignment shop on December 1, 2012|
Time for the Polka Dot PT to turn into Santa’s sleigh, so I’m off to my local consignment and thrift shops with wallet in hand…
What every shopkeeper needs before it turns 2013
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged blogging, profit, success on November 30, 2012| 3 Comments »
An early holiday gift to your shop from Auntie Kate
Do you know a shopkeeper who’d like more loyal customers? Customers who are more motivated to stop in and shop more frequently? Who adore the shop? Who brag on the shop, who visit the shop first before any other source?
Does this person need a gift for the holidays?
Now here’s a Gift Exchange Idea!
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged employees, holidays on November 28, 2012| 1 Comment »
Many consignment, thrift and resale stores have a holiday party, and most of these involve gift exchanges. While these are fun, they can also be fraught with “what was s/he thinking?” worries. If you’d rather have some fun and friendship, with a big side dish of community involvement, here’s an idea I really like.
Do your exchange the same way you have always done, but make this stipulation: the gift has to be something you think the recipient would have loved
as a child.
What will it be? Model cars? Paper dolls? A crib mobile that plays Can’t Get No Satisfaction? Do your darnedness, exchange gifts and laughs and funny stories of when you were a kid…
then pack the gifts all back up
and take them to your local charity’s toy drive.
Yup. THAT’s the
spirit of gift giving!
Thanks to green.autoblog.com for the car graphic, and Karen’s Whimsy for the paper dolls.Easy as 1-2-3: Your Holiday Gift Conundrum Solved
Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged holidays, resale shopkeeping on November 27, 2012| 3 Comments »
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Print out this page
2.
Select which items which will help your business thrive in 2013 and circle them
3.
Give this now-circled page to your spouse, significant other, life partner, parents, kids, having stapled to it, your “Life Wish List”… anything from a world cruise to the finest higher education you could wish for a child or grandchild… that you plan on earning with
your talents and a little guidance from Too Good to be Threw Products for the Professional Resaler.
There. Now everyone knows what you want for your present (and future!) And aren’t you happy you won’t be getting one of those cellophaned “Christmas towers” from Walmart.
The Imperfect Shopkeeper
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged resale shopkeeping on November 26, 2012| 9 Comments »
You don’t have to do it all 100%, 100% of the time.
In fact, if your strive to do so, you’ll lose all the joy, the fun, the pleasure…
and the profit.
I’ve watched shopkeepers drive themselves to tears (and/or cuss words they’d be ashamed to have their mothers hear) over details which really matter so little. True story: In the beginning of my shop, I would spend another half-hour or more trying to get the daily total to balance to the penny. And I am talking penny. Then one day (or late evening, actually) it come to me: it didn’t matter. If I was off 57 cents or even $3. My half hour would have been better spent on any number of things, and more joyfully spent as well.
So stop and think:
Is good enough good enough in this case?
Would that extra hour tweaking your display or your Facebook promotion really be worth it? Answer: Yes, if that’s what you like to do and have an hour to do it in. No, if there are matters more pressing that you could be doing, that would make a markedly-deeper impact on your goal. Or that simply
added to the delight you experience in owning your own shop.
For me, it was colorizing the earrings. Okay, I’m weird. But I’m guessing you have your own little weirdnesses too, and I hereby give you permission to do what’s important to you and your shop. I promise I won’t mention the dust bunnies lurking in that corner over there.
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