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Got your AGD?

May 27, 2011 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Every consignment, resale and thrift shop (heck, every retail store) needs its very own AGD. What’s yours?

It could be animal, vegetable or mineral. It could be ceramic, stone, bronze or made of rags.

But it needs to be Continue Reading »

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Ask questions on Facebook to get them involved

May 26, 2011 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Draw attention and traffic to your consignment, resale, thrift shop by asking questions!Asking questions on Facebook is a great way to get followers involved.

Make your Continue Reading »

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If they have something nice to say…

May 25, 2011 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

If they have something nice to say... grab it!

This past post has a lot to say.

So do your customers.

Let them.

“This is the greatest shop!”

<<Click that.

(And while you’re at it? Get out the camera and the video. They’re ready for their close-up.)

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Making a “temporary” web site

May 24, 2011 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Not particularly the announcement I’d make, but you get the idea.

What do you do if you can’t easily and quickly make a page on your web site (or goodness gracious, don’t even have a web site for your consignment, thrift, resale shop!), but

you have something you really want to tell folks

MORE folks than just Continue Reading »

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Winnie the Pooh as resale shopkeeper.

May 23, 2011 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

“I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit.

“No,” said Pooh humbly, “there isn’t. But there was going to be when I began it. It’s just that something happened to it along the way.”

Does your business plan look like the Hundred Acre Wood?When you started out, you had a mind map for your business. It seemed like such a straight-forward business plan. But now, your strategy for your consignment shop, buy-outright boutique, or not-for-profit thrift store more closely resembles the Hundred Acre Wood rather than a treasure map. Diversions (Tigger’s Bouncing Place) and reactions to past conundrums (Where the Woozle Wasn’t) are taking up all your brain’s territory.

Did, as Winnie said, something happen to your plan for success along the way? If so, you may want to do a little terrain-rearranging.

If you love the “real” Winnie the Pooh as much as I do, there’s a wonderful interactive map (from which our illustration was borrowed) at Return to the Hundred Acre Wood.

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