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If you’ve run out of ideas about telling your customers how wonderful resale is for the holidays, here’s 50 angles you could use:

50 Days & 50 Ways to Have a Merry Recycled Holiday

Keep the LIGHT in Christmas by celbrating the resale way | TGtbT.comIt’s a blog written directly for the public, with all the ways to use resale shopping to have an eco-friendly celebration. This link takes you to the start page of the blog, and from there you can explore:

Day-by-day: Use the calendar to click on each day… there’s one post per day.
or

By topic: there’s 5 categories to choose from just below that calendar.

Check it out,  and feel free to link to any of the 50 resale-centric, consumer-angled posts there!

Need a quick, inexpensive, community-minded holiday event in your shop?  How about

Cookies & Cans

Here’s how our local private museum publicizes Continue Reading »

Slay your competition with these 5 hacks for consignment, resale, and thrift shops, to make your consignment shop be

your marketplace’s FIRST CHOICE for secondhand:

1- Don’t let your shop not be seen for the forest.

Competition is good for all businesses but especially for consignment, thrift and resale shops.

Click to read how very simple this truly is.

2- How you price affects how you sell.

Pricing is an art. One you can learn.

How you price affects whether you succeed. Click for the most-requested Product for the Professional Resaler.

3- Stand out from the Crowd

Make sure your consignment shop stands out from the rest, says Auntie Kate of TGtbT.com

Don’t bore them. Delight them. EVERY day. Make your shop SIZZLE! Click for resale-friendly advice.

4- Do something DIFFERENT and EASIER (for you and your shoppers!) :

The Bag Sale That Isn't, a blog post from TGtbT.blog

Click to read “The Bag Sale That Isn’t”

5- And finally, let THIS be your guiding light:

Resources to help you use these hacks:

The MoneyWise Guide to Accepting & Pricing for Resale.

10 Tactics to make your Shop Sizzle.

Pinterest: The Business of Consignment, Running a Resale Shop, Thrift Store How-tos

Underdog Tactics for resale & consignment shops from TGtbT.com

Just because you can’t afford a circular in the paper on Thanksgiving Day, and you’re not about to open at 5am for those crazy shoppers….

…doesn’t mean you can’t tempt some holiday bucks into your register this week!

Some tactics that are especially attuned to your scrappy-little-dog shop, to highlight how small can be mighty:

First off, don’t sacrifice profits!

Price is NOT  Continue Reading »

Bummer, right? No matter how cute and interesting and vital your page is, very few of those who follow you will ever be offered the choice to read it. Is there a solution? YES. (Well, MAYBE. Read on…)  Continue Reading »