By now, consignment and resale and thrift shopkeepers are
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and in need of
15 Easy Ways To Beat Anxiety Once & For All
Then, when you’re utilizing way #13, think about how wonderful it would be if working as hard as we do
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Put down that gun.
The tagging gun, of course. Or the broom, dishcloth, your phone.
Watch the next 6 potential customers who walk through your shop door. Who’s wandering aimlessly… and who wanders right out again, never having been stopped by a display, a sign, a swing shop… or even a single piece of exceptionally interesting merchandise? Why didn’t they stop? Could it be that your shop is not putting its best party face forward?
One of the goals in your consignment or resale shop should be to
stop shoppers in their tracks.
Look at all the shopper-stoppers I found in this one photo!
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You can have a promo for a few hours or a day… or you can hold it and reap the benefits and goodwill for long after.
And Marianne Evans, owner of Your Best Friend’s Closet, a HowToConsign.com Sponsor Shop, used her pink-bathing-capped head for her latest shop happening.
Not only did the shop do promotion before the event: the trending Ice Bucket Challenge, but they went BIG, as in the Fire Department coming to fill a dunk tank in their parking lot…
But they also, since they were collecting funds for the ALS Challenge, set up a GoFundMe link for their Facebook followers who missed the chance to dunk Marianne, her staff, and business associates she challenged with a well-tossed ball.
Now that’s a perfect example of expanding the impact your events have on your business…and a perfect example, too, of what you can learn from Resale’s BEST Promotions, a Too Good to be Threw Product for the Professional Resaler. Get your copy PDQ from TGtbT.com
The shop raised almost $1000 for ALS in the IceBucketChallenge… and raised their community visibility a thousand-fold as well! Follow Your Best Friend’s Closet on Facebook.
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It’s like a license to print money… the ability you have to turn browsers into loyal and consistent customers. Store Bucks, BeBack Bucks, dollars-off coupons… used wisely and well, can have your consignment or resale shop
rolling in the dough.
Just imagine all the ways
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