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Making your postal message greener…

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on July 3, 2011| 1 Comment »

A perfect stamp for consignment, resale, and thrift shops

Put the ReSell...RePlace...ReJoice stamp of approval on your client communication

Carry the message of recycling one step further with these “Go Green” first-class stamps.

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College Kids Moving Out? Teach ’em to consign!

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on May 20, 2010| 3 Comments »

moving out of the dorm: consign-a-lot!If your market area includes kids who live in dorms, student housing, or rentals, and if they’re leaving town, how can you consign or buy outright or receive as donations the stuff they don’t consider worth moving or storing?

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Whether it is called Chuck it for Charity (works whether your shop is an NFP thrift or if your consignment shop maintains charity accounts) or Move-out Recycling or Make a Clean Green Break, it’s a great way to

  • get merchandise (you’d be amazed at what college kids don’t want),
  • help the school itself (you can set up a charity account for whatever cause the school has going),
  • teach that generation the values of recycling,
  • introduce them to your shop,
  • save the college Dumpster costs,
  • and avoid filling up the landfill.

What could be more WIN-WIN?

Photo courtesy of Drew Saunders on Flickr

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Just a quick refresher: Sale or sell?

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on April 28, 2010| 2 Comments »

She sells sea shells, which are nothing more than used clothes, right?Sell is a verb. So you don’t “price things for quick sell”, you price them for quick sale. It’s not a clearance sell. She sells sea shells all day long. The grouper offered her ten clams in exchange for the abalone soap dish. She wanted to sell it, so she accepted.

Sale is a noun. A sale is the total purchase, individually (She made a big sale of 27 sea urchins to one tourist) or as a group (She made a lot of sales at her sea shell booth.)

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Did you forget Earth Day?

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on April 16, 2010| 6 Comments »

Resalers can raise eco-awareness

If ever there was an industry that should go all out on Earth Day, it would be us resalers…

but April is such a busy season for most of us that it gets overlooked. We MEANT to plan some event, celebration, promotion…and we want tohelp the earth, but we dropped the ball. Or did we?

Here’s some quick-quick things you can do right now if you have Facebook fans, Instagram followers, blog readers, email subscribers.

  • Swap-out. “Bring in a clean and usable [handbag, pair of jeans, cooking pot] and we’ll give you [20%, $3 in store bucks, a hug]. We’ll give your donation to [the clothing  pantry, emergency shelter]. They get stocked up, your cupboard gets cleaned out, and you get to find a new [outfit, geegaw] to love!”
  • “Put your MyShop staff to work! For every $X purchase, we will donate 1 hour of volunteer labor to [the parks dept, Habitat for Humanity project]” (make sure you have willing owner or staff for this one…and PAY the staff member as if s/he were at work)
  • Something to encourage green living: “Come shopping by bike on [date] and receive [a $10 gift certificate, a reusable water bottle]” or “Get a free earth-friendly tote with any purchase…we only have 23 to give away so come early!”
  • Take the opportunity to reinforce your mission via ad, tweet, FB entry, press release: “For every T-shirt and pair of jeans MyShop sells, 4 pounds of fertilizer is diverted from the watershed, [and so on, look up some stats on the web re water, land, fertilizer, dye effluence, transportation costs]
  • Or go even further. How many pieces of merchandise did you sell last year? Multiply that out by any stat that appeals to you (landfill averted, number of cargo containers shipped from China with disposable clothing)… and that will astound your viewers.

After all, 2010 is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. That’s worth some attention from us resalers and our eco-conscious shoppers, isn’t it?

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And the winner’s a third generation recycler!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on February 22, 2010| 2 Comments »

The winner of last week’s Wacky Wednesday Giveaway is…The consignment shop winner at Auntie Kate the Blog this week is Top Drawer in PA!

Cindy of  The Top Drawer Consignment in York PA!

whose family red jacket has passed through at least 4 women in her family…(did it skip a generation, or was your mom too (more…)

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