Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignment, ecology, resale shopkeeping, web, word of mouth on April 19, 2019|
Does your marketplace include a segment of the local population who disdain to use your consignment services, who feel it is beneaath them to “sell” their “old clothes”? But you suspect they could have wonderful things that your customers would buy, and that disconnect seems insurmountable to you?
If you’re dealing with folks who feel like (more…)
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged buy-outright, consignment, consignors, resale shopkeeping, success on July 2, 2018| 3 Comments »
A shopkeeper asks:
This figure is not easy to pinpoint exactly, but we can get a rough number in two steps:
1- Your daily overhead, divided by the amount of time spent per item (obviously, an average). That’s the FIXED COST. Do not include expenses directly related to employees at this point. If you have only one person working, use the full amount of the time segment; otherwise, divide the daily overhead by the number of staff normally present.
2- PLUS how much the person (more…)
Posted in economics of resale, Mailbox: 1-on-1 Advice, Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignment, consignors, profit, resale shopkeeping on July 20, 2017| 2 Comments »
An interesting approach from this consignment shop owner:I received this near the end of July from someone who had a concern:
I had a lady who is not a consignor yet but said that she wants to become one and that she has a lot of [fill in whatever fall goods your shop could sell the heck out of.] She was very insistent on getting to bring her fall items in now. We would like to give our current consignors dibs on what floor space we have. We told her (more…)
Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignment, consignors, resale shopkeeping, success on February 6, 2017|
Give your best consignors a punch…
Sonya Nix of Better Than Before Consignments mentioned in a private forum that once, she gave (more…)
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignment, consignors, selling on November 7, 2016|
You must obey this law… and if you don’t, you will suffer.What law are we looking at here? (more…)
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