It’s inevitable. If you deal with the public, you’re going to get negative comments on the web.
Often. From all quarters.
So be prepared and know how to handle it.
Here’s Continue Reading »
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We’ve come to the end of our “mini-series” of posts about YOUR web site, and whether it’s doing the best job to
I hope that the week has been helpful to you.
My heart-felt thanks to these resale shops who volunteered their sites for my “examples”, without knowing whether I’d praise or chastise them! These shopkeepers are the cream of the crop: resalers who extend themselves to help their sisters (and brothers!) in the resale industry. I appreciate your bravery, and I also appreciate being able to freely use your sites while creating this mini-series.
http://www.selectiveseconds.com
http://www.resaletherapyboutique.com
http://www.fireweedboutique.com
http://www.childishthingsconsign.com
http://www.yourstuffkidsstuff.com
http://www.carouselkidsstl.com
http://www.divineconsignoakpark.com and http://www.trendsoakpark.com
http://www.consigntodesignstore.com
http://www.thefashionsafari.com
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Before you bag up all your unsold summer clearance items, click to take a look at this PDF that HowToConsign.com offers consumers. Maybe it’ll give you
Collecting up unsold past-season goods to create a costume department in your shop is more than just a way to recycle. It’s more than just a way to make a few extra bucks late in October for the Hallowe’en-shopping folks.
It’s a way to
* Build traffic
* Create incredible Word Of Mouth
* Introduce a whole new demographic to your shop
* Have LOADS to talk about on your blog and Facebook… maybe even some hilarious photos of outfitted customers
* Have loads of fun and laughs
If you truly want to do all that, you need How to have a Frightfully Good Halloween and Build your Costume Business Year-Round which is available as a PDQ, and which, to be quite honest, is one of the most
After all, we as resale shopkeepers know how to use everything to the max, right?
From Shop Sizzle:
Keep an eye out, when sorting through incoming, for items that you might not SELL, but that you could use as fixtures or equipment in your shop. Some ideas from Shop Sizzle include: flat velveteen pillows as a jewelry display piece, a well-washed linen tablecloth as backdrop in a display picture frame, a hand mirror to hang from a pretty ribbon in a dressing room for a back view.
And more ideas on this post to get you looking at things twice before you get rid of them: Can’t Consign It? Maybe you should…
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Continuing our a mini-series of posts about making your consignment, resale, or thrift shop’s web site do what you want it to do:
to get shoppers into your actual, physical, bricks-&-mortar, REAL store.
So far this week, we’ve been talking about what a visitor will see when s/he gets to your site, and how you can turn that idle interest into an actual shopping trip to your location.
Which means Continue Reading »
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Continuing our a mini-series of posts about making your consignment, resale, or thrift shop’s web site do what you want it to do:
to get shoppers into your actual, physical, bricks-&-mortar, REAL store.
Take a look at Continue Reading »
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Too Good to be Threw is the flagship site of the TGtbT Family of Sites for the Professional Resalers
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 