Posted in Mailbox: 1-on-1 Advice, Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, resale shopkeeping, starting a consignment shop on November 4, 2016| 7 Comments »
Let’s go to the mailbox! EM asked an interesting question recently:
Answer: That depends. (Don’t you love answers like that?) On three things:
1. The actual square footage of the selling space of your shop. Up to 750 square feet, usually, can be adequately staffed, at least in the beginning, with a single person. That’s the size of my first shop, and just one person was usually plenty.
2. The arrangement of the space. That 750-sqare-foot (more…)
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, learn a lot, resale shopkeeping on October 18, 2016| 1 Comment »
I snapped this sign immediately when I spotted it in (more…)
Posted in Deja Vuesday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, employees, resale shopkeeping, small business on September 6, 2016|
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Staffing is always a challenge in any sort of retail, but even more so in resale retail. But it could be slightly less of a challenge if (more…)
Posted in I've been meaning to tell you, Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, resale shopkeeping, small business, starting a consignment shop on June 20, 2016|
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, resale shopkeeping, small business on June 6, 2016|
Paris flooding! Recent news told of curators at the Louvre moving priceless treasures up above the flood waters of the Seine. Closer to home, a high-end resale shop was completely ruined last week when the building’s sprinkler system burst. What would you do if such a disaster struck your livelihood?
Can your resale or consignment business survive a disaster?
While some businesses are devastated by disaster, others continue with (more…)
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