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How do you recycle your own stuff?

Posted in economics of resale, Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on July 18, 2011| 7 Comments »

So you’ve decided that jacket isn’t very useful. Or those jeans, terribly flattering. Or your kids have outgrown those toys and your spouse hates that lamp.

How do you, as a consignment shop owner, a resale proprietor, or a thrift shop manager, recycle your own stuff? Do you take it in to your own shop or do you use another? And which and why?

If a family member across the continent mentions the clear-out-clutter kick she’s on, what do you advise her to do with gently-used, previously-loved items?

HowToConsign.com urges consumers to ReSell...RePlace...ReJoice while recycling

Me, since I buy almost everything used, I often take things to the Goodwill or Habitat ReStore in my neighborhood. Third-hand stuff’s not always very consignable, is it?

Tell us how you ReSell… RePlace… ReJoice!

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HowToConsign is in Redbook!

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Used Stuff in the News, tagged , , on July 11, 2011| 3 Comments »

Don't you LOVE Jada PInkett Smith? I do!While I have had my head down, working on getting Sharing back up for all our resale and consignment shopkeepers who are missing their daily fix of our discussion board, someone brought me the August issue of Redbook.

Yay! (more…)

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Logos I rejected (and why)

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on April 25, 2011| 1 Comment »

Okay, I showed you some logos that I liked so much I kept them in my reference file. Now, let’s take a look at choosing a logo.

Some logos I rejected, and why:

A logo from scratch: when I was developing (more…)

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Be proudful. You’re the best consignment or resale shop around, right?

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on February 27, 2011| 4 Comments »

a mojito on the beach in February...success!Hi guys…just a quick check-in with my consignment, resale, thrift buddies on a beautiful Sunday. I was searching around for a meaningful message to send to you, before I take off for places non-resale-related (and consisting of palm trees, pure quartz sand and mojitos. Sorry.)EVERYone wants to be associated with a winner.

So here’s today’s task: Take PRIDE in your business. Not only that, but TELL everyone how proud you are to be successful.

After all, you’re successful because your business provides your community with something they want.

Toot your own horn. Don’t hide your light under a bushel.

Why? Because everyone (read: potential shoppers and suppliers)  wants to be associated with a WINNER. And if they don’t know that you just opened a second location “because OtherTown deserved the best, too!” or “showcased 10,000 new items last month” or even just “Come meet Stacy, our home-decor advisor and coordinator, who will make your shopping easy, fun, and stylish!”

But they gotta KNOW you’re a winner. So today, as I sip my mojito and stretch out in the warm sun, I’d like to think of you all, furiously listing all the ways and places and reasons you can tell the world that your shop is a winner.

Dreams do come true. So tell them you’re the best consignment, resale, or thrift shop around. And that they deserve the very best, to coin a phrase.

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It’s all relative. And nowhere will you learn that better than in a consignment shop.

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on February 2, 2011|

How soon will these items end up in a consignment shop?I had a consignor whose husband owned a local, large, and public company. One day, this woman consigned a NWT item she’d bought mere weeks earlier for $1300. She couldn’t be bothered, she implied, to return it to the luxury merchant where she’d bought it, so she’d just let me sell it…for whatever.

I was stunned. $1300 was more than a month’s rent to me, and she was willing to take the small percentage I could get her for this?

That night, I did some back-of-the-envelope figuring. I knew how much her husband earned as a salary because the corporation was public. I compared it to what I was earning.Auntie Kate the Blog: better than a chocolate bar

That $1300, as a percentage of her family’s earned income, was the equivalent of a 59-cent candy bar to me.

No wonder she couldn’t be bothered to return it. I’ve never returned a Hershey’s bar in my life.

Here’s hoping some consignors like that find your shop through your listing on HowToConsign.com’s Clickable Map & Directory.

Parker’s photo from http://fashionuncensored.blogspot.com. The chocolate bar is gently-bitten.

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