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Do your shoes smell? That’s what Continue Reading »
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Some of my favorite decorating tricks involve mirrors. And mirrors are even better in your consignment, thrift, resale shop…
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This display was for Halloween, showing of Stella McCartney handbags in London.
Cute, isn’t it? Certainly calls attention to the luxury handbags. What a shame, Continue Reading »
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An excerpt from How to Switch Seasons Easily & Profitably PLUS Pakaways: More Freedom, More Profit , a Too Good to be Threw Product for the Professional Resaler in PDF form, available in the TGtbT.com Shop:
Getting the New Season’s Goods in, IN Good Time!The trick, if you’re a consignment shop, is getting the new season goods in at the beginning of the season. Consignors don’t think of their items on the same timetable as retail sells them, so you will have to
All of the below applies to buy-outright shops, and even to donation-only shops, assuming of course that you have kept contact information for your suppliers.
• Have you designed a postcard to consignors, stating the consignor BENEFIT of getting their items in NOW? This type of postcard can be readied for mailing during any slow selling periods and simply put aside until the right time to send them out.
• Is there a line on your consignor receipt/ clothes list re when to bring fall in?
• And why it’ll make them more $$ to bring it in at the BEGINNING of the season instead of later? . . .
Get more tips in the PDQ, a PDF file you get Pretty Darn Quick from Kate in your email!
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Remember last fall, when some of the more marketing-minded consignment, resale, and thrift shops got together a “look”… or, in one case, THREE! looks… for under $50 and Continue Reading »
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Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 