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A display made to order for consignment, resale and thrifts

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2012| 1 Comment »

Great way to show... and sell... consignment, resale, and thrift goods

Click to see Supermarket Sarah's Gallery of Walls

Supermarket Sarah, in London, has many and varied interests, but I discovered (more…)

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Furniture consignment shop interview video: Your thoughts?

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Used Stuff in the News, tagged , , on January 21, 2012| 9 Comments »

We viewed a lot of consignment, resale, and thrift videos in our USED ain’t seen nothin’ yet e-newsletter this week, and then a few days later, we reviewed the wonderful tips given to us by a generous and talented resale shopowner/video artist.

Now here’s an interview with a furniture consignment shop in tis second, newly-opened location. See if you can spot, using the tips you learned through our free e-newsletter,

what’s being done right here… and what (more…)

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New use for old entertainment centers

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on December 28, 2011| 12 Comments »

Okay, for all of your furniture consignment shops, resale home decor places, non-profit thrift stores who get all those entertainment centers in…. that no one wants anymore.

I’ll bet you’re tired of suggesting to customers they could be turned into home offices

or pantries.

Or even laundry room organizers.

So here’s a new idea. Super-cute play kitchen (notice the poster as window! And the chandelier! I would have killed for my very own chandelier at that age.)

Entertainment center turned.... well, entertainment center, right?

Printing these ideas out, slipping them into a plastic sleeve or plexi sign holder to inspire browsers… might sell a few of those behemoths.

My thanks to Susan Carleton, who posted the pink kitchen photo on her Pinterest page and got me started on this. Warning! Don’t go to Pinterest. Even though I’m on it too. You’ll go on wondrous journeys throughout the internet while your laundry will mildew, your family members starve, and the hair on your legs will drape over your tennies.
 
Click the photos for sources… some of THEM, have their sources….

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Need a consignment or resale subject line? Think party.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , on November 30, 2011|

Champagne flutes, a perfect resale purchaseNeed a blog post, an email subject line, a Facebook entry, a tweet, that will get their attention?

Well, between now and (more…)

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Motivating donations… or incoming of any sort!

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on November 15, 2011| 3 Comments »

Recently, “Our Thrift Store” (yes, they use the quotation marks) has had a

10 Days 10 Bags

Clean a room a day of clutter and donate it to a thrift storecampaign, to inspire the non-profit store’s fans and friends to go through their homes and bring in items they can resell.

To make the task more fun (and less overwhelming!), the store suggests going through a room a day with this checklist, found on their Facebook Events page.

Isn’t this something you could use as the backbone of a similar idea for your shop?

Imagine your blog. 10 days of entries, highlighting various areas of a home, with a checklist of what they can bring in. Make it “suggestive” rather than a dry recital of “knick-knacks, jewelry, shoes.”

For example,

Day 4, we’re tackling the Master Bedroom:

  • That scented candle that was a hostess gift that you’ve never taken out of the cellophane.
  • The necklace your husband insists looks like penny candy, and the baroque earrings that simply overwhelm your delicate features.
  • Bottom of the lingerie drawer: the bras you never had the nerve to cut the tags off of, yet alone wear. The fishnet tights still in their package from last Halloween.
  • Be honest. Just because you spent too much on those shoes you can’t walk in, is no reason to condemn them to a lifetime in the dark. Bring them in; we’ll find them other tootsies to sparkle on.

And because you, clever shopkeeper you, have connected your blog to your FB and Twitter accounts, every day for 10 days, you have a motivating social media message that could bring you wonders you (and your donors, consignors, sellers) never even thought about before!

Of course, you’ll turn your ten little suggestion lists into a bag-stuffer for continuing use or as part of your “how-to” handout.

Many thanks to our NFP peer! Visit “Our Thrift Store”.

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