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Your consignment, thrift, or resale shop has LOTS of merchandise that would make good stocking stuffers, doesn’t it?
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You’re not overwhelmed with shoppers, because you can’t convince the entire world to shop secondhand for Christmas. You’ve done your best, but there are still those folks who, although they happily shop with you all year, are afraid of what their sister-in-law might think if they gifted her with something wonderful from your shop. So your regulars are out shopping the malls.
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I know, I know… you want to give them something unique but inexpensive enough that you can hand out dozens. But what will everyone like? Think cute? Talk about and show their friends?
Auntie Kate to the rescue, with a little help from her friends. I promise you: you can have these made, and have your business card tied onto them, by the dozens by this evening. And it’s Continue Reading »
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Oh, heck, Every year, I swear I’ll be DONE with Christmas shopping by now. After all, Christmas occurs like clockwork every December 25. So why would I subject myself to venturing into stores at this time of year?
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A nice summary article from The New York Times about shopping consignment/ resale online.
to improve the shopping and supplying aspects of your shop, or to make the online shopping you have on your web site more productive? After all, these folks have big money and marketing brains behind them, and we can do some electronic brain picking right from the comfort of our homes/ shops/ couches.
Take a look. Update: The NYT now limits access to their past articles unless you pay for (caution, pun approaching) … second-hand news. We’d love to hear what you take away from your study of these companies. Take a minute to share in the comments below!
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