Market influencers, those people who are seen as experts, can be your best business buddies. Do these influential people recommend your consignment or resale shop?
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Insider Knowledge: Your Hidden Talent
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, customers, shop local on February 5, 2011| 4 Comments »
Does your consignment, resale, thrift shop ever attract tourists? Visitors? Seasonal residents?
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Tiny Tweaks Big Results
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, resale shopkeeping on February 3, 2011|
Big snowdrifts and low temperatures
mean consignment, resale, and thrift store owners have plenty of thinking time right now. How about the tiny tweaks that bring the biggest results? Some ideas:
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It’s all relative. And nowhere will you learn that better than in a consignment shop.
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignors, HowToConsign.com on February 2, 2011|
I had a consignor whose husband owned a local, large, and public company. One day, this woman consigned a NWT item she’d bought mere weeks earlier for $1300. She couldn’t be bothered, she implied, to return it to the luxury merchant where she’d bought it, so she’d just let me sell it…for whatever.
I was stunned. $1300 was more than a month’s rent to me, and she was willing to take the small percentage I could get her for this?
That night, I did some back-of-the-envelope figuring. I knew how much her husband earned as a salary because the corporation was public. I compared it to what I was earning.
That $1300, as a percentage of her family’s earned income, was the equivalent of a 59-cent candy bar to me.
No wonder she couldn’t be bothered to return it. I’ve never returned a Hershey’s bar in my life.
Here’s hoping some consignors like that find your shop through your listing on HowToConsign.com’s Clickable Map & Directory.
Parker’s photo from http://fashionuncensored.blogspot.com. The chocolate bar is gently-bitten.Deja Vuesday: How is your consignment or resale shop special?
Posted in Deja Vuesday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, blogging, web on February 1, 2011|
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