Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, competition, HowToConsign.com, promotions on January 27, 2010| 17 Comments »
It’s Wacky Wednesday once again. A free giveaway for consignment, resale, and thrift shop owners/ managers.You want your shop’s name (and tag line, if all goes well) to STICK in people’s minds whether they’re looking for something specific, gathering up (more…)
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, competition, consignors, customers, promotions on January 20, 2010| 39 Comments »
All you have to do to be entered into our random drawing is add your helpful comment to this post. What’s your thought, your idea, your angle on today’s topic?
One out of ten consumers shops resale. That’s right: you could double your sales if you could make your shop appeal to another 1 out of 10 shoppers. Share with us your plans (more…)
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, customers on January 11, 2010|
Your “About Us” page doesn’t read like this one, does it? Email Marketing Software Tools and Email Tracking Software Tools.
(For those of you who cannot slog through it, for the record there are 25 uses of we, us, and our. And 3 uses of the word you.)
Nobody in your business world really wants to hear about you, your innermost thoughts, your fears and your dreams. They don’t give a fig about your mission statement. They just wanna know WIIFM. So give it to them.
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Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, promotions, thought for the day on January 1, 2010| 6 Comments »
ReSell RePlace ReJoice…and let them KNOW you do!
Instead, indulge yourself today and think about how great you are and how far you’ve already come.
Good for you! Have you let your marketplace’s consumers know about it? Although that in itself, communicating with potential customers, might be your proudest feat! A lot of you have utilized the Twitter and Facebook world this year, including me.
Has your feat been a journey worthy of passing on to your peers? Let us know. We LOVE success stories from the biggest to the smallest, toughest to most gee why didn’t I think of that?
So tell us, what wonderful thing did you do, business-wise, last year? Why was it successful and in what way? What would you warn us against doing? And how do you plan on building on or expanding your success in 2010?
Go ahead: Be PROUD and be LOUD. It’s just us resale fans here, sitting on the bleachers. Brag. Strut. Show off your stuff. We encourage justifiable pride on this, the first day of the New Year.
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, blogging, email, holidays, mailing list on December 11, 2009| 7 Comments »
Too Good to be Threw is the flagship site of the TGtbT Family of Sites for the Professional Resalers
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 