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7 mistakes you might be making in your emails

June 18, 2012 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Make sure your consignment, thrift, resale shop emails get read!Good article about making sure your broadcast emails from your consignment, resale, thrift shop are actually doing Continue Reading »

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Creative Customers? Or maybe even you? Great social media ploy…

June 18, 2012 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Collected objects, AKA junk drawer contents, recycled!Remember my post about making cute little “treasures” jars of bits-n-pieces you accumulate around your consignment, resale, or thrift shop?

Lot of viewers loved this idea but wrote to me saying they didn’t have enough.

Well, if you just have a few baubles around, and you are of a crafty nature, here’s a great tutorial on Cloth Paper Scissors that might inspire some relaxing, creative time for you.

And here’s where you can get a free e-book with 5 projects, including a hat to die for!

Make a steampunk bracelet with your consignment shop junk!Not crafty yourself? Print out the ideas, and post them next to the treasure stashes you have for sale! Even if these jars don’t amount to much income-wise… it’s

a great way to show the public you truly believe in recycling, re-creating, re-imagining.

And what word-of-mouth… especially if you encourage the artsy purchaser to send you a digital photo of her creation to show on your blog!

Bragging about customer creativity is a fabulous way to build community for your business.

Another way to use bits-n-pieces.

You could turn this idea (and so many others) into a fund-raiser as well, whether you’re a NFP thrift or a for-profit….

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♥ to spice up your messages with cute little symbols and smilies?

June 17, 2012 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

I ran across this treasure lode of symbols, entities, and smilies recently and thought you might enjoy them. They work on your blog, Facebook, and Twitter (if you’ve seen them today on my social media, you know I tested them for you!)

All you have to do is copy and paste them into your own blog, or a Facebook message, or a tweet.

✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯ ✰ Should old acquaintance be forgot, ✰ ✯ ✮ ✭ ✬ ✫ ✪ ✩
✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯ ✰ And never brought to mind? ✰ ✯ ✮ ✭ ✬ ✫ ✪ ✩
❃ ❄ ❅ ❆ ❇ ❈ ❉ Should old acquaintance be forgot, ❉ ❈ ❇ ❆ ❅ ❄ ❃
♩ ♬ ♪ ♩ ♫ ♩ ♬ And old long since! ♬ ♩ ♫ ♩ ♪ ♬ ♩❃ ❄ ❅ ❆ ❈And there’s a hand my trusty friend!❈ ❆ ❅ ❄ ❃
❃ ❄ ❅ ❆ ❇ ❈ ❉ And give us a hand o’ thine! ❉ ❈ ❇ ❆ ❅ ❄ ❃
✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯ ✰ And we’ll take a right good-will draught, ✰ ✯ ✮ ✭ ✬ ✫ ✪ ✩
✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯ ✰ for auld lang syne. ✰ ✯ ✮ ✭ ✬ ✫ ✪ ✩
❺
❹
❸
❷
☮ Happy New Year! ☮

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Thanks to 1tess for compiling these. 

 And here’s a few more I found, and lots of Q&A’s. For example, you could use the scissors for “clip our web coupon” or the umbrella for “Rainy day? Good day to clean your closets! We have customers longing for [whatever]”
♥  ► ◄ ♀ ♂ ✄ ➊ ➨☂ ½ ☟
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Do any of you have other symbols etc that we can copy and paste? Add them in the comments below!

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I’m on fire!

June 16, 2012 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

I'm on fire to see my consignment, resale, thrift peers!One of my most-favored views of life.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.
Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on the future generations.     –George Bernard Shaw

(of course being a procrastinator just before conference and a would-be perfectionist makes for a big big conflagration around here. Just ask DuH.)

New Product to be introduced at NARTS Conference: Blogging for Resale Shops. And maybe another if I can just let go of that perfectionist thingie. They’ll be in our TGtbT shop soonest. Meanwhile, go visit the seasonal blog, KateAtNARTS now and throughout Conference.

Photo from Natl Fatherhood Initiative, which is fitting since tomorrow’s Father’s Day.

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Great ways to say things.

June 15, 2012 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

My hobbies are watercolor, resale shopping… and collecting what I Continue Reading »

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