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Has your resale or consignment shop been affected by seasonal sales? Probably.

TGtbT.com has the resources you need!

If you don’t have this Product, you’re giving away bagsful of profit every time you have a sale.

Even if you are unaware of seasonal sales in your area, chances are your potential clientele isn’t. And especially for childrenswear shops, the prevalence of these sales is affecting your business. Here’s how to deal with such events:

Lick ’em.

Have your bag sale a week before! You’ll drain spendable dollars AND your business will profit by people looking to buy your NTYs to turn them into seasonal sales items.

Today’s consignment/ resale inspirational moment20090521anthropologie brought to you by an allied industry, the antique-store folks. They have some of the same problems we have… and a statement that makes a lot of sense to those folks musing about that “the consignment store feel” on Sharing recently:

Let’s look at the art of displaying antique & vintage items. It’s not easy – for one, you usually only have Continue Reading »

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Big brother Rick, your humble correspondent and Mom, Southampton Beach Long Island, 1950's.

Mothers are complicated. And they don’t get less so, for having gone to that great mudroom in the sky.

So Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. Thanks for leading me on my career path, thanks for the sense of humor and love of nature. Thanks for Sunday Continue Reading »

been-meaning1I’ve been meaning to tell you: Being a problem solver behooves your business better than being an order taker. Especially in our inventory-always-changing, dynamic resale/ consignment/ thrift industry!

You don’t have to be a mind reader: all you have to do is care about learning what problem your customer wants to solve and finding a substitution.

Substitute selling involves Continue Reading »

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“Organization is what you do before you do it, so when you do it, it’s not all messed up.”  — Winnie the Pooh

this is what my office looks like, 6 weeks before Conference.