If your area doesn’t have a brochure of local resale shops to offer customers, and if you’ve tried to rally your peers to create one without success, (more…)
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Kudos: Your Local Resale Shops Brochure
Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged competition, resale shopkeeping, small business, success on February 26, 2018| 4 Comments »
5 Consignment Hacks
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged competition, resale shopkeeping, starting a consignment shop, success on November 27, 2017|
Slay your competition with these 5 hacks for consignment, resale, and thrift shops, to make your consignment shop be
your marketplace’s FIRST CHOICE for secondhand:
1- Don’t let your shop not be seen for the forest.
Click to read how very simple this truly is.
2- How you price affects how you sell.
How you price affects whether you succeed. Click for the most-requested Product for the Professional Resaler.
3- Stand out from the Crowd
Don’t bore them. Delight them. EVERY day. Make your shop SIZZLE! Click for resale-friendly advice.
4- Do something DIFFERENT and EASIER (for you and your shoppers!) :
Click to read “The Bag Sale That Isn’t”
5- And finally, let THIS be your guiding light:
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Resources to help you use these hacks:
The MoneyWise Guide to Accepting & Pricing for Resale.
10 Tactics to make your Shop Sizzle.
Pinterest: The Business of Consignment, Running a Resale Shop, Thrift Store How-tos
Don’t miss a trick.
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, competition, resale shopkeeping, web on October 8, 2017| 1 Comment »
Here’s a social media trick that takes 5 minutes and will increase the awareness of your Facebook business page. And that your competitors probably have overlooked.
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Earthy Elegant. An exercise in branding.
Posted in Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged competition, merchandising, resale shopkeeping, sea of sameness, small business on August 24, 2017| 2 Comments »
What is branding? It’s “a consistent message aimed at consumers’ emotions” and: “There can be no branding without differentiation, which is the ability to persuade consumers that your [shop] differs from the rest,” according to Entrepreneur magazine.
If that sounds good to you, create a visual and verbal message that makes your shop stand out from local resale stores and even from online options. Design an ambiance that persuades shoppers that yours is the best place to shop.
Perhaps you remember the Earthy Elegant (more…)
Intimidated or Inspired? Your choice.
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged competition, resale shopkeeping, small business, success on June 15, 2016| 4 Comments »
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