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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.

Making changes in your resale shop

 

Now, the first: misjudging your market. That’s easy to do. What actually (more…)

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1: What’s the biggest stumbling block potential suppliers have when they want to consign furniture to your shop?

Answer: The cost/ effort of getting the piece to your place!

2: How can you motivated those who are buying something, to turn around and consign something?

Answer: Offer them an irresistible deal on getting the piece to your place!

We'll pick up your consignment
Cool solution, huh? Especially if your drivers/ truck are coming back empty.

I believe kudos are due to Home 2 Home Consignments in Dayton OH, but the graphic isn’t branded, so I could be wrong.

This post is the fourth in a week-long series of Kudos, ideas to inspire gathered from consignment, resale, & thrift shops that you might adapt or alter for YOUR business! Kudos Week is offered by TGTbT.com, the Premier Site for Professional Resalers, in celebration of International Resale Day, July 18. See more Kudos posts here.

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Isn’t this a wonderful motivator and even

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Did you get a chance to see me live last week? If not, here’s the “10 Minutes with Kate” show on Keeping Yourself Motivated. “10 Minutes” will appear on Wednesday evenings at 8pm Eastern on the TGtbT Facebook page.
The first video, Keeping overworked employees focused,  appeared (more…)

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Igibberish tried, really hard, to listen to a live webinar today. But I couldn’t. About the time he said “native app”, I decided

he was talking to his navel.

Not to me.

Honestly, webinars (and live videos and blog posts and even bag-stuffers, for heaven’s sake) exist to communicate… and if your audience has to stop listening to process

WTF you’re talking about

chances are they will tune out , exit the video, unsubscribe or worse.

So yeh, you and me, having a little chat over coffee, can talk (more…)

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