Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, web on January 30, 2013| 7 Comments »
Some consignment, thrift, and resale shop owners need to postpone their postings on Facebook…. until they get more common sense. Some actual posts by actual shopkeepers:I’m so sick of (more…)
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, consignors, customers, web on January 27, 2013|
A picture is worth a thousand words, right? We all love looking at pictures.Sometimes, though, the
as to WHY someone wants you to look at them. And that’s what you get when you follow Too Good to be Threw on Pinterest, so I hope you do. A few little extra tips, hints, and ideas which might be just the thing to make your business all you dream it can be.
And if you follow HowToConsign.com on Pinterest, you’ll see what HTC is saying to your future customers and suppliers. You can even repin those messages onto your shop Pinterest boards, which is a 2-second way to improve YOUR business with no effort, thanks to the Sponsor Shops on HTC!
What do these clipboards have to do with running a consignment, resale or thrift shop? A lot, perhaps. Click to see what I suggested…
Source: littlenannygoat.blogspot.com via Kate on Pinterest
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An easy way to polish your teen-oriented business within your community is suggested at this Pin. Click to see if it might be a way to raise YOUR shop’s community profile and reputation.
Source: data.whicdn.com via Kate on Pinterest
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Click the photo to read why this home-decor magazine photo can be very useful to your shop, no matter what you sell. Then after you read that Pin, read this one. Similar but different.
Source: auntiekate.wordpress.com via Kate on Pinterest
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And over on HowToConsign.com’s Pinterest, this single Pin has been repinned almost 100 times. I’m betting 80 of those people checked out the Consignment & Resale Directory while they were there, and here’s hoping they found out about YOUR shop there!
Source: hipswap.com via HowToConsign.com Consignment on Pinterest
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to be Threw on PinterestPosted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, small business, web on January 17, 2013| 2 Comments »
Here’s a tip from Kate: Don’t post every picture you took to your FB albums. Select a few that show your items to the best advantage.
There’s a LOT of info out there on the web, and you could be investing a lot of time (some consignment and resale shopkeepers tell me they spend more than 3 hours a DAY tweaking their Facebook pages!) without the return on investment you would like.
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, blogging, perceived value, web on January 16, 2013| 6 Comments »
Now THAT’s the way to photograph your goods. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to have a yard with tropical greenery. Maple trees work. As do chain link fences. Or even a graffiti-scrawled wall. Depends on your merchandise and your store’s image!)
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, merchandising, web on December 20, 2012|
There’s nothing more annoying than getting 4 or 6 or even (yes I counted!) 15 status updates in a row from the same person/business on Facebook. No matter how much you adore Cousin Tilly’s kids, or Resale Rosie’s pictures of incoming consignment goodies, their filling your news feed with uploaded pictures, one by one, can be excruciating.
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