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What is this thing called linking?

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on June 12, 2013| 2 Comments »

When a stranger looks for your business in a search engine, will they find you? Or will the first results be those of your competition?

How search engines decide who goes first is complicated (not to mention, in many ways, “secret”) and involves knowing a heck of a lot more than you as a shopkeeper care to learn. But there’s a simple, 5-minute way to help search engines find your web site.

Is there an easy, non-geeky way to improve your search-engine ranking? (more…)

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Out & About Shopping Consignment

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, tagged , , on May 31, 2013| 4 Comments »

Love how this shop in Bradenton FL solved an annoyance. This wooden pedestal (more…)

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Yes, you can. You should. Learn to write press releases for your consignment, resale or thrift shop.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on May 16, 2013|

Did your consignment shop really need to be quoted on that?

There’s a Product for that: Grab their Attention

Great article: Stop writing press releases, and start writing news stories.

And for sure, you need to have a press kit.

Help the media help you publicize your consignment, thrift, or resale store.

Want more? Get this Product for the Professional Resaler Pretty Darn Quick.  Grabbing Their Attention: How to Make the Media Love You
A Too Good to be Threw Product for the Professional Resaler written by Sarah Deveau of Cater Tot Consignment. Getting on television and radio as a guest is the ultimate validation of your business and an incredible business- and reputation-booster which cannot be bought at any price. It can be done, however, for virtually free following Sarah’s advice!

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Motivate them on the weekend!

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , on May 5, 2013|

HowToConsign.com tweets to YOUR future customersWhen you motivate your followers on the weekend, you build traffic on Monday. And (more…)

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43% of email is now opened on a mobile device

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , on April 28, 2013| 8 Comments »

Send your consignment, resale, thrift emails in a way that will get them read!Yup, 43% of email is now opened on a mobile device. That’s the message from my broadcast email provider, Constant Contact.

What does that mean for your consignment, resale or thrift shop?

Here’s what they recommend:

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1. Be concise

Screen real estate is (more…)

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