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Some ideas to make your consignment / resale shopkeeper week-end dreaming and planning a bit more interesting (and productive, perhaps.)

Wouldn’t round stickers, like the ones you get saying “I voted”, be fun to stick on your suppliers during the spring-rush intake? You could design them with a center message like “Life is Good” or and  I cleaned my closets &  MyShop’s selling them for me!

 

Need some Twitter-fuel, or an angle for your blog, a subject for an email or even a real

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media ad?  Read these remarks by the under-30 set about resale shopping to see what appeals, what would catch your customers’ attention… things like

diversify your closet and

purge your inhibitions and

look for things that reflect your personality and curiosity

are a great start on a publicity campaign.

 

Has Spring come to your shop windows yet? (Or Halloween or Christmas…) A little paint, a lot of fun and word of mouth!

 

 

Update 3-29-10: Since only 18 entrants participated in this Giveaway, there is no free prize to be awarded. Thank you to those who participated and sorry that there couldn’t be a winner. But folks, read the comments anyway. There’s some valuable info there for us all.

Happy Wednesday! And it’s Wacky Wednesday too…how lucky can we get??

Wacky Weds is our free Giveaway for consignment, resale, and thrift shop owners/ managers.

Consignment and resale shops can use email marketing to build business

This week’s question for consignment and resale shopkeepers, which makes you eligible for our free Giveaway is:

Share with us (as short or long as you like) your experiences contacting your Continue Reading »

Bandaid puppetsHere’s a past resale/ consignment post which bears repeating.

Are you sabotaging your business in obvious and subtle ways?

Read how I found yet another reason not to numerically limit incoming goods when I was forced to follow a rule that makes no sense. Besides the reasons we already can see. ‘Cause it messed with my head.

A pinprick here, a pinprick there and pretty soon your business is bleeding real bad.

The photo’s from http://www.momsmarbles.com/ which is a pretty cute site.
Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series.

Christina and Holly are very happy franchisees. Even if you don’t think this is the route you want to take,

it’s interesting to note several things:

Giant size rings are home-madeBoth women estimate that they spend a few hours a week, year round, nurturing their sale. For example, the giant size rings Continue Reading »

Read Part 1: Seasonal sales and their consignors

Vital at Seasonal Sales: The Volunteers

Volunteers at a seasonal consignment sale.

Volunteer spot-checkers...and spots they did find, but surprisingly few.

Now, every seasonal sale varies from every other…even all the JBF sales have different aspects. But all of them have opportunities that are win-win: the seasonal sale and the year-round shop can partner in so many ways.

Today let’s look at how volunteers are a crucial part of making a seasonal sale workable, how they use and how they reward volunteers.

Can volunteers a part of year-round shops? You betcha. Read on.

The key to the success, both in Continue Reading »