Can Tweeting be bad for your business health?
Everyone always makes fun of Stupid Tweets like “Eating a BLT yum yum”… but what about those Tweets sent by consignment and resale shops to their (presumably) customers? Some just leave me scratching my head.
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No, you’re not crazy.
I’m forgetful.
It was late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning when I realized that Deja Vuesday had been neglected in favorite of yesterday’s post. So here’s a Deja Vuesday I cooked you up, a day late…hope you’ll flip over it. Continue Reading »
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At the start of a new season, some consignment shops are tempted to mix things up a bit…switching to being a buy-outright shop, or perhaps trying their hand at a little buying outright to see how it goes. After all, the profit potential is much higher…or is it?
take a look at this Resalers’ Resource, which will save you time, effort… and which will MAKE you money.
The BIG Book of Buying Outright includes, amongst other meanderings:
Buying Outright…is it for me?
Should I start my shop as a Buy-Outright?
How do I learn to buy outright?
How much should I pay?
How can I switch from consigning to buying?
Maintaining and Managing my Open-to-Buy
Face-to-Face with your Seller
How do other shopkeepers do it?
But still feeling that your intake procedures are a bit more cumbersome than you’d like? The Money-Wise Guide to Accepting & Pricing could be a time- and sanity-saver when all those folks spring clean and come in! Reinforce your decisions on whether something will sell to your clientele, and at what price, while presenting a confident and professional attitude to your suppliers.
Tired of hearing shoppers complain “It’s so crowded in here I can’t see anything”?
That really is the #1 complaint of your shoppers. How can you present more selection and build more value into your merchandise without busting out the walls? Maybe The Essential Guide to Using All Your Space will help.
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk | Tagged buy-outright, daily operations, resale shopkeeping |
Do you suspect that you are head-over-heels in love with “free”?Now, mind you, free is my favorite price.
But when is free truly free? After all there’s no such thing as a free lunch is an old chestnut because it is true.
You spend Continue Reading »
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You must see this: a batch of “thrift-shop” tables, as the creator dubs them, painted glossy white, all mish-mashed together as a platform for your center-stage swing shop.
Here, they are fastened together to get the angles, but for more versatility you may want to simply nestle them together.
Pull out a drawer and fill with hairbows or bangle bracelets or napkin rings tied together with white ribbons…
A T-stand or half-mannequin or cake stand raises displays to yet another height…
a carousel of shoes arranged on a round table top…
Cup hooks on the inside of the table aprons that’ll display handbags, beads, scarves…
for-sale silk flower arrangements, or big baskets of flip-flops, nestled underneath.
More about Swing Shops, as one of the 10 topics in Shop Sizzle , which is a recommended Product for the THRIVING Professional Resaler.
Posted in My Favorite Things, Shopkeeping talk | Tagged display, home decor, merchandising | 7 Comments »
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