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Are your windows doing their job?

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on June 8, 2010|

Here’s a statistic to warm the cockles of your heart:

If your windows pull in 10 extra customers a day who spend $50 each, the annual increase in sales will exceed $182,000.

A consignment or resale display to catch the eye...and wallet...of passersby.

(And that statistic is based on those customers just buying once and disappearing… imagine how your sales will increase when you turn them into regulars and fans!)

A window worth doing is a window worth doing well. And now you can get

Specific-to-resale window display ideas and information. Quick, to-the-point, and geared especially for our varied (and sometimes strange) merchandise mix. Just click the book and it can be yours!

Too Good to be Threw's Kate hHolmes helps you with Window DisplaysThe Big Book of Window Displays Especially for Resale Shops is waiting for you!

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Recycled store display fixtures are the bomb!

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on June 2, 2010| 3 Comments »

Old mannequins become word-of-mouth sculptures

Can of paint turns a tacky dummy into a work of word-of-mouth art!

A recycled collection of reusable display and store fixture ideas

Okay all you consignment, resale, and thrift shops. Are you using recycled display fixtures to (more…)

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Make your consignment or resale shop stand out…

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, tagged , on May 13, 2010| 5 Comments »

While I was in Fernandina Beach this week, this building caught my eye… and you can see why! (more…)

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Can’t consign it? Can’t sell it? Maybe you should BUY it from them.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on April 10, 2010| 8 Comments »

You’re offered tons of stuff, especially now with spring-cleaning season upon us, that you just don’t have a customer for in your shop, right?

Oh. Wait. Maybe YOU should buy it.

Here’s some things that could be very (more…)

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Favorite Thing: A Swing Shop Skeleton

Posted in My Favorite Things, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on March 27, 2010| 7 Comments »

Resalers could use this as a start for their swing shop.You must see this: a batch of “thrift-shop” tables, as the creator dubs them, painted glossy white, all mish-mashed together as a platform for your center-stage swing shop.

Here, they are fastened together to get the angles, but for more versatility you may want to simply nestle them together.

Pull out a drawer and fill with hairbows or bangle bracelets or napkin rings tied together with white ribbons…

A T-stand or half-mannequin or cake stand raises displays to yet another height…

a carousel of shoes arranged on a round table top…

Cup hooks on the inside of the table aprons that’ll display handbags, beads, scarves…

for-sale silk flower arrangements, or big baskets of flip-flops, nestled underneath.

Oh this would be so fun to use as the skeleton on which to build a fantastic swing shop each week!

More about Swing Shops, as one of the 10 topics in Shop Sizzle , which is a recommended Product for the THRIVING Professional Resaler.

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