If your area doesn’t have a brochure of local resale shops to offer customers, and if you’ve tried to rally your peers to create one without success, (more…)
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Kudos: Your Local Resale Shops Brochure
Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged competition, resale shopkeeping, small business, success on February 26, 2018| 4 Comments »
Bet YOU have some great advocates too!
Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, customers, email, Facebook, resale shopkeeping, selling, web on February 24, 2018| 2 Comments »
You don’t gotta be an Einstein
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, resale shopkeeping, small business, thought for the day on February 21, 2018|
You don’t gotta be an Einstein to make your consignment, resale or thrift shop operate smoother, make more money, or simply be more fun and less work to run.
But it doesn’t hurt.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
So, if you were thinking (more…)
Brand your photos in one easy step.
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, Facebook, resale shopkeeping, web on February 16, 2018| 3 Comments »
Okay, you’ve heard me rant preach discuss putting your shop’s name, tag, URL, whatever, in all your
It’s not enough to say #shoplocal.
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, promotions, resale shopkeeping, success, Twitter, web, word of mouth on February 12, 2018| 2 Comments »
Asking your community to #shoplocal is not enough. You need to show them What’s in It for Me?
They don’t care that you’re the “lifeblood of our community”. They’re looking for the why’s, the how-come’s, what they will get out of shopping local.
Why are you asking your community to #shoplocal? Here’s a dozen reasons, designed to (more…)
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