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Oh no! I lost all my files!

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Mailbox: 1-on-1 Advice, Shopkeeping talk, tagged on April 20, 2012|

Did you lose your files?

Frantic email.

“I didn’t back up my TGtbT.com Products, and my computer’s toast, and now I don’t have them!”

Wow. It’s (more…)

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“I like it. What is it?”

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on April 19, 2012|

Lots of ideas on Too Good to be Threw’s Pinterest Board called Tips for Thrift, Resale and Consignment Boards.

If you’d (more…)

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Adding hand-crafted items to your consignment shop: What they fear.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on April 18, 2012| 6 Comments »

Consignment guidelines for creative artistsFor all you consignment shop owners who would love to explore showcasing local crafts and artists in your shop, here’s (more…)

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Deja Vuesday: TMI can getcha.

Posted in Deja Vuesday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on April 17, 2012|

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.

We are bombarded with messages right and left. There’s so much information out there that (more…)

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Husbands & daughters: Getting them in to your consignment shop

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on April 16, 2012|

For Mother's Day, consignment, resale and thrift shops need to target husbands and daughters.96% of shoppers, they say, do something for Mother’s Day. And who does the most gift-buying?

Husbands and daughters.

So it only makes sense for you to focus your consignment, resale, or thrift marketing for Mother’s Day on these folks.

How about:

Creating a pretty fill-in-the-blank handout in your shop, for mothers to list their favorite items in your shop, and give to their family?

Offering a gift to a young daughter who comes shopping for her mother, grandmother, mother-substitute? Perhaps a gift certificate for future use, that she can keep herself or tuck into her mother’s gift?

Create a  photo-heavy gift-suggestion page on your web site or album on your Facebook business page and encourage customers to send their families to? Be sure to include an easy way for a man to buy, if only via phone!

Having a drawing, offering free gift wrap, promoting a “Men’s Night Out” after-hours event with beer and pretzels as they shop and a drawing for some item which will motivate men?

Talking to your local special-occasion restaurant (Mother’s Day is the busiest day of the year for them!) to see how you could use that audience to get your message across. Donating a showy floral arrangement to the buffet table there in return to their allowing you a holder of brochures about your shop? Distributing a carnation to every mom (with a “Happy Mother’s Day from MyShop” business card tied on with curly ribbon)? Table tent ads? Fashion show?

More ideas in Resale’s BEST Promotions

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