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Seasonal consignment sales

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged on May 22, 2009| 1 Comment »

Has your resale or consignment shop been affected by seasonal sales? Probably.

TGtbT.com has the resources you need!

If you don’t have this Product, you’re giving away bagsful of profit every time you have a sale.

Even if you are unaware of seasonal sales in your area, chances are your potential clientele isn’t. And especially for childrenswear shops, the prevalence of these sales is affecting your business. Here’s how to deal with such events:

Lick ’em.

Have your bag sale a week before! You’ll drain spendable dollars AND your business will profit by people looking to buy your NTYs to turn them into seasonal sales items.

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An inspirational moment…

Posted in Shopkeeping talk on May 21, 2009|

Today’s consignment/ resale inspirational moment20090521anthropologie brought to you by an allied industry, the antique-store folks. They have some of the same problems we have… and a statement that makes a lot of sense to those folks musing about that “the consignment store feel” on Sharing recently:

Let’s look at the art of displaying antique & vintage items. It’s not easy – for one, you usually only have (more…)

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Can you read minds?

Posted in I've been meaning to tell you, Shopkeeping talk on May 8, 2009|

been-meaning1I’ve been meaning to tell you: Being a problem solver behooves your business better than being an order taker. Especially in our inventory-always-changing, dynamic resale/ consignment/ thrift industry!

You don’t have to be a mind reader: all you have to do is care about learning what problem your customer wants to solve and finding a substitution.

Substitute selling involves (more…)

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I’m NOT procrastinating, I’m organizing

Posted in Shopkeeping talk on May 7, 2009|

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“Organization is what you do before you do it, so when you do it, it’s not all messed up.”  — Winnie the Pooh

this is what my office looks like, 6 weeks before Conference.

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Take the shirt off your back and put on the one in your back room

Posted in Shopkeeping talk on May 6, 2009|

branded-landsendGot a shirt in your back room? Nice, clean, pressed, flattering shirt ready to be slipped on when the news crew arrives? You know, the one with your shop NAME on it?

This thought occurred to me as I was watching yet another News Crew at Five type of video clip about consignment, resale, and video. ( I watch a lot of these. In fact, I might watch every one there is.) Straining to make out the shop’s name, or blinking when the TV station superimposed it for 5 seconds….I was left wondering how this could be remedied.  How many of that shop’s  (more…)

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