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Oh my, what a stunning consignment shop! A rare resale shop! A thrilling thrift!

May 29, 2010 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Resale Makes My Heart Race! Courtesy HowToConsign.comOkay. We’ve spent some time recently

burying the stinkers,

those nasty, totally-inaccurate (or so we like to think!) and biased negative reviews of our shops by asking our fans, friends, and best customers to put their reviews up on all those sites Auntie Kate talked about.

And we’re working on

enhancing those free-listing sites with photos, info, and more good reviews from those who love our shops, as Auntie Kate mentioned a few weeks ago.

Fantastic! We’re nearing the home stretch now. Next task: get some good, glowing, wonderful reviews of your shop on its Facebook page. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people could read what others think about your shop? Of course it would.

After all, that’s social marketing. And social networking.

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Teamwork: This part of staffing your store is crucial!

May 28, 2010 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

There’s a LOT of work involved in running a consignment, resale, or thrift shop. A lot more than in a “regular” retail store, and it’s harder too, what with the variety of items you receive

(what is it? what’s it worth? where in blue blazes am I going to put it and what do I have to rearrange in order to get it on the selling floor at all?)

THat’s why I was fascinated by this Continue Reading »

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Countdown to NARTS Consignment and Resale Conference

May 27, 2010 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Lordie lordie, only 4 weeks to Conference which is the second most valuable investment* you can make in your consignment, resale, or thrift shop.

Products for the Professional Resaler from Too Good to be Threw

I thought I’d point you to the first in a series I did for a past Conference:

4 weeks to Conference.

Enjoy!

Every year shopkeepers also ask about the post I wrote about the wording to use on a Continue Reading »

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Paying for Facebook fans, Yahoo reviews, Merchant Circle endorsements?

May 23, 2010 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

How do you feel about paying for endorsements of your consignment, resale, thrift shop?

This is from facebook: FACEBOOK FANS! GET A 50% OFF COUPON FROM [name deleted] AND HELP US OUT TOO BY JUST GOING TO OUR WEBSITE [url deleted] AND LEAVING GREAT COMMENTS IN OUR GUESTBOOK. FOR EVERYONE THAT LEAVES US POSITIVE FEEDBACK YOU WILL GET A 50% OFF COUPON FOR OUR STORE. SO, PLEASE GIVE US SOME POSITIVE FEEDBACK!

Is this Continue Reading »

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What consignment shops can do with those illegal drop-side cribs.

May 22, 2010 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Now that Inez Tenenbaum, chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has declared that apparently Continue Reading »

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