Take advantage of your camera to build your social media. Click, to see all the tips TGtbT.com has to make your business be all you dream it can be.
Building a collection of your own photos is a great thing to do. Here’s one Julie snapped, when she bought a truck load of mannequins.
After all, we all have cameras in our pockets (or at least at the counter!) these days.
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Happy birthday today, August 19, to Coco Chanel. Still a fashion icon 130+ years after her birth and 45 years after her death.
If you open up your closet right now, there’s probably at least one item in there that pays tribute to Coco Chanel’s classic vision. -biography.com
A short list of things that are a part of our fashion world now, introduced and/or popularized by Coco Chanel:Knit jersey material as suitable for womenswear. “I make fashion women can Continue Reading »
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One of my favorite bumper stickers is “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” So true! And most of us don’t get the opportunity to thank teachers nearly enough.
Well, enough of that. Here’s a quick, easy, and heart-warming way to extend a helping hand to all those hard-working folks, and to show them that shopping resale adds up!
For hundreds more promotional ideas and tips especially for the resale industry, click the pic.
Creating a graphic like this (I used picmonkey.com), to use on your web site, blog, social media channels, and to print as in-store signs, posters, and window messages, takes only a few minutes. (Naturally, you’ll add your shop logo and info to your creation.)
Add in some time to go buy a gift certificate to your local school supply shop (who might even give you a sizable discount in exchange for a sponsorship!) , and you have an almost-instant news-worthy event.
For more tips and specific ways to make your promotion continue to earn your business fame and fortune beyond the event, read your copy of Resale’s BEST Promotions from the Too Good to be Threw Products for the Professional Resaler.
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Got big windows that suck up the sun and cause your electric bill to suck up your profits? Here’s an unusual idea that might be just Continue Reading »
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I was contacted by Real Simple magazine re an article they wanted on buying and selling resale furniture online. (It’s on pages 87-90 in the August issue.)
I gave them ALL SORTS of reasons to look local, real-life, bricks-and-mortar first. But alas, I was left on the cutting-room floor*.
Not one to waste brain cells, I thought I’d share my reasons to shop real-life first, in case you could use them.
For more resale furniture/ home decor ideas and suggestions, visit TGtbT.com.
* For digital natives, “The term cutting room floor is used in the film industry as a figure of speech referring to unused footage not included in the finished film. Outside of the film industry, it may refer to any creative work unused in the final product.” — Wikipedia
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