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Ran across slogans for states. Thought of you.TGtbT.com and HowToConsign.com cover the map for consignment, resale, and thrift shops

After all, some tax-payer money went into these slogans, so if you paid for them, how about adapting them to your consignment, resale, or thrift shop?

Think about:

Beyond Your Dreams, Within Your Reach Doesn’t this strike a chord for those shops which specialize in the truly dream-luscious brands? A bit snobby, maybe, when applied to resale goods, but then again…

Find Yourself Here For shops which brand themselves as unique, indie fashion/ style presenters. Get it? “Find yourself”? No? Well.

Celebrate & Discover Well, this has possibilities, maybe… if your shop has lots of party wear and other stuff.

More Than You Can Imagine If you have a vast selection of goods in a seriously-large storefront, this might work.

Feels Like Coming Home Great if your home goods/ furnishings store specializes in carefully-arranged vignettes; not so good if you have the whole dusty-attic-mishmash thing going. The mishmash approach is perfectly fine, just (hopefully) it’s not like coming home. So you might, for a wonderfully-full messy treasure trove of a store, consider altering  Big Sky Country to Big Buy Country. Or use Land of Enchantment, that’d be good. I’d go for that.

To see which slogan has been/ was applied to which state, visit the Wikipedia list. To my Canadian friends: I tried to include slogans for Canadian provinces, but really. See what I mean.

HowToConsign.com on Twitter

For your amusement today, some links to info about Facebook, Twitter, and all the other social media out there. Put your feet up and read.

9 Hot Tips for Small Business Marketing on Facebook

The 12 Most Confusing Things about Tweets, Retweets, Replies and Messages

7 Biggest Mistakes in E-Mail Marketing

How I Got 25,000 Blog Subscribers from Pinterest — in 2 Months Flat

Oh my aching head.

Okay, so I hate “reality” TV shows, up to and including  “Fashion Hunters” and “House of Consignment.”

That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate their effect on the public perception of our industry.

Case in point: The May 2012 issue of Southern Living by the numbers:Click for May 2012 articles from Southern Living

60%

the number of consignment shops included in retail suggestions for visitor shopping in Memphis TN

4

secondhand (from vintage to antique) recommendations if you need “retail therapy” in Louisville KY

3 out of 5

The number of “New Tastemakers” who, when interviewed, included “choose secondhand” as their favorite shopping advice!

How has the new consciousness of consignment and resale affected your business? Comment below!

Click for the idea.

I can see all SORTS of avenues to use this idea.

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That’s what I’ve heard some folks say about the locale of next month’s NARTS Annual Conference (their 25th!)

Well, yes. St. Louis. I mean, it isn’t Paris, but then who is?

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