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Step 4: Now that your resale shop is freshened up, let’s freshen up the till, shall we?

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on August 26, 2010| 2 Comments »

Here’s the pay off in Freshening up your shop, after you’ve managed Step 1 and Step 2 and Step 3.

Sell it!

Time to celebrate in your consignment shop!

Now that you've done all the work of stomping on the grapes, it's time to celebrate with a little bubbly and a whole lot of shoppers!

Once a new manager, new sales team, or new owner feels like there’s some significant upgrading of the consignment, thrift, or resale shop visible and working,

it’s time to sell the shop

… as in sell it to potential customers/ suppliers. This will involve not only advertising and social media outlets (you have been (more…)

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Step 2 to Freshen up a Consignment, Thrift, or Resale Shop: Spruce it up.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on August 24, 2010| 5 Comments »

Spruce up your consignment shop with these tipsSee Step 1 here.

Okay. Your next step, when tackling a big project like turning a shop around, after cleaning it up, is to

Spruce it up

Physically: We mentioned fixtures in passing in Step 1. But now’s the time to take a good hard look at the fixtures you’re using. I do believe that every resale shopkeeper is, at heart, a (more…)

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You are more special than you think.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on August 9, 2010| 1 Comment »

Well, it's true, isn't it?How do buyers and sellers, cleaner-outers and accumulators, choose a resale shop to deal with? And what makes them decide to continue consigning at your shop, donating to your thrift store, buying and selling in your resale shop?

They choose the shop which seems to be (more…)

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Being cheap where it counts…against you.

Posted in I've been meaning to tell you, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on July 10, 2010| 3 Comments »

Such style this NYC shop has…Tokyo Rebel!… and their overhead expenses I am sure would cause most consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers to break out into a rash. Just the framed poster (more…)

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“Cheap is where it’s at”? Agree?

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on March 11, 2010| 4 Comments »

Is cheap the only motivation in consignment and resale shops?One of our consignment/ resale shopkeepers was feeling rather down, and she insisted that

the ONLY thing motivating (her) customers was price.

I disagreed.

Here’s (more…)

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