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This is a mini-series of posts about making your consignment, resale, or thrift shop’s do what  you want it to do:
to get shoppers into your actual, physical, bricks-&-mortar, REAL store.

Getting Internet visitors to actually come shopping is a goal not shared by the majority of web  sites, perhaps: those sites where their customers do something on line (order, download,  watch or listen) or sites which are simply “building a brand” (Ford, Coke, Crayola) rather than  asking folks to step away from the electronics and come get physical. This is the challenge  we’re examining in this mini-series. At the end of the week, we’ll have a self-help quiz which you  can apply to your shop’s web site.

Today, we’re assuming that your current or potential client has seen your home page and wants (more…)

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This is a mini-series of posts about making your consignment, resale, or thrift shop’s do what you want it to do:

to get shoppers into your actual, physical, bricks-&-mortar, REAL store.

This is an aspect of web design that is not usually talked about (more…)

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Can your web site draw customers into your real shop? TGtbT.com helps you find out how!This week we’ll be starting a new “mini-series” of posts about YOUR web site, and whether it’s doing the best job to

get shoppers into your actual, physical, bricks-&-mortar, REAL store.

This is an aspect (more…)

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Consignment, resale and thrift stores have more jeans that you can shake your...umm, leg... at!

How are you getting people in?

Some imagination-provoking ideas about getting people shopping in real stores instead of on the Internet in this New York Times article. (Not sure about the booty cam though.)

After all, if you Google “online consignment” just for the past year, you get 1.7 million hits.

Yes, 1.7 million.

Comment, below, about how YOU market the advantages of in-person resale shopping in your business.  Or how you will be, this fall selling season. Ideas for attracting consignors, suppliers, and donors as well as shoppers would be great, if you have something to share.

All commenters will be entered into a drawing

for a free Sponsorship ($49 value!) at HowToConsign.com. If you are a current HowToConsign.com Sponsor , you’ll win DOUBLE that: $100 worth of Products for the Professional Resaler of your choice, in celebration of International Resale Day!

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Blogging for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift ShopsMaybe you have a blog. Maybe you’ve abandoned one. From the numbers (more…)

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