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If you want to sell more, give your fans more ways to use what you’re selling.

Reimagine a piece of merchandise in your shop.

Turn a drab dresser into something with WOW factor, or reuse one of those dangerous cribs for a youth desk. Make a wedding dress into a christening gown. Whatev. Point is, to show your social media audience that they too can be creative when they find something interesting in your shop.

Document your transformation with how-to photos and post as a series on your blog, web site, social media.

Don’t have any way to do that? Turn your series of photos (3-5 is the ideal number, with captions of course) into a broadcast e-mail with the subject line: “MyShop is Playing Around… Come Join Us!”

 

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Leap year gives us a February 29 just once every four years.

Leap Day used to mean proposals!Used to be, that was the day women could ask men to marry them. That charming (?) custom has fallen by the wayside, but still, Leap Day is an opportunity to do something fun in your shop that will help you Stand Out from the Crowd.

Subject lines and ads and graphic ideas you

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There’s a zillion reasons any consignment, resale or thrift shop needs an active, attractive web site.

Invite potential customers into your consignment shop via email.Shops that rely solely on Continue Reading »

Q: Is your consignment or resale shop smarter than Gap Inc?

A: You betcha!

Your shop, as simple, local, one-person-run as it might be (or as multi-locationed, professionally-staffed, online-savvy as it might be!) would never drop the ball so badly Continue Reading »

Loved this parody of recipe videos on Facebook that I saw recently.TGtbT.com's swipe file video from August Oak Woodworks

August Oak Woodworks wrote:

This is something I came up with because my Facebook feed is constantly flooded with recipe videos and I thought this would be funny. Hope you enjoy.

The video is here.

(If that link doesn’t work for you, go to their Facebook page and scroll down to early December 2015. Facebook has issues.)

How could you use the recipe template (spritely music, few if any words, and crisp closeups) to get YOUR message across?