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If they have something nice to say…

Posted in Shopkeeping talk on May 25, 2011|

If they have something nice to say... grab it!

This past post has a lot to say.

So do your customers.

Let them.

“This is the greatest shop!”

<<Click that.

(And while you’re at it? Get out the camera and the video. They’re ready for their close-up.)

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Making a “temporary” web site

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on May 24, 2011| 5 Comments »

Not particularly the announcement I’d make, but you get the idea.

What do you do if you can’t easily and quickly make a page on your web site (or goodness gracious, don’t even have a web site for your consignment, thrift, resale shop!), but

you have something you really want to tell folks

MORE folks than just (more…)

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Winnie the Pooh as resale shopkeeper.

Posted in I've been meaning to tell you, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on May 23, 2011| 3 Comments »

“I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit.

“No,” said Pooh humbly, “there isn’t. But there was going to be when I began it. It’s just that something happened to it along the way.”

Does your business plan look like the Hundred Acre Wood?When you started out, you had a mind map for your business. It seemed like such a straight-forward business plan. But now, your strategy for your consignment shop, buy-outright boutique, or not-for-profit thrift store more closely resembles the Hundred Acre Wood rather than a treasure map. Diversions (Tigger’s Bouncing Place) and reactions to past conundrums (Where the Woozle Wasn’t) are taking up all your brain’s territory.

Did, as Winnie said, something happen to your plan for success along the way? If so, you may want to do a little terrain-rearranging.

If you love the “real” Winnie the Pooh as much as I do, there’s a wonderful interactive map (from which our illustration was borrowed) at Return to the Hundred Acre Wood.

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Oscar Wilde as Consignment Consultant.

Posted in quotations of use, Shopkeeping talk on May 20, 2011| 3 Comments »

Be yourself; (more…)

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The English are SO much cooler about recycling clothes.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Used Stuff in the News, tagged on May 19, 2011| 2 Comments »

The English are SO much cooler about recycling clothes than we are. Here’s a great way to keep all those rock band, charity run, vacation T shirts from languishing in the landfill. Read about it.

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