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Some ideas to make your consignment / resale shopkeeper week-end dreaming and planning a bit more interesting (and productive, perhaps.)

Wouldn’t round stickers, like the ones you get saying “I voted”, be fun to stick on your suppliers during the spring-rush intake? You could design them with a center message like “Life is Good” or and  I cleaned my closets &  MyShop’s selling them for me!

 

Need some Twitter-fuel, or an angle for your blog, a subject for an email or even a real

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media ad?  Read these remarks by the under-30 set about resale shopping to see what appeals, what would catch your customers’ attention… things like

diversify your closet and

purge your inhibitions and

look for things that reflect your personality and curiosity

are a great start on a publicity campaign.

 

Has Spring come to your shop windows yet? (Or Halloween or Christmas…) A little paint, a lot of fun and word of mouth!

 

 

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A new weekly feature here at Auntie Kate The Blog is

Deja Vuesday

Great resale shop but no customers?

All dressed up...and no customers to greet? Could be they don't know about you.

where you can visit a gently-used, recycled, and even restyled blog post in case you missed it the first time. It’s even better the second time around.
Without further ado, for Deja Vuesday today may I present a post that is even MORE important now than it was almost 3 years ago :

“How long you been here?”

“How long you been here?” is a question designed to drive any resaler CRAZY. You spend and spend on advertising, signage, bag-stuffers and all that, and still, people don’t seem to know you’re    Read the whole Deja Vuesday post…

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The winner is #4, White Elephant, in TGtbT.com's Wacky WednesdayFlamingos in the Old Dominion: The results from Wacky WednesdayGiveaway are in, and our winner of this week’s prize, a flamingo flag, is Cynthia of White Elephant with three locations in Virginia. Congratulations, Cynthia, I’ll send the flag out with your order this week!

Hatch an avatar for your business: While you’re waiting to see what this week’s Wacky Wednesday topic is, why not get yourself an avatar to further your shop’s (more…)

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Just for fun.
(Watch how she uploads photos!)

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Consignment and resale shops have a real profit tool: the after-hours phone messageIf a potential customer calls your shop when you aren’t open…what do they get?

I tried this, dialing shops across the country, just to see what impression a stranger or a regular would get if they happened to call outside of business hours.

Guess what? Ringy ringy. That’s it. No friendly (more…)

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