If you started off on the wrong foot, if you’ve gone off on the wrong fork in the road, if you’ve been barking up the wrong tree, how are you going to get back on your business back on track and
how can you have your customers, your clients, your suppliers, your donors behind you, rooting for that change?
Now, there are different reasons why you might want to make a significant change in your consignment, resale or thrift shop. The first of course, is you misjudged your market somehow. The second one is that the market actually changed on you. You may have opened six months ago, you may have opened six years ago or 16 years ago, but your market somehow has changed. So you’re going to have to make a change in the way you run your business. And the third reason that you might want to be looking at changing is because you yourself have changed.
So let’s talk about change, why you need to do it, how are you going to do it, and how you’re going to get everybody on your side when you do it.
Now, the first: misjudging your market. That’s easy to do. What actually (more…)