As the fall season selling time “heats” (you should pardon the word, and the current temperature in many places!), it’s easy to get enthusiastic about how traffic and sales are building.
Posts Tagged ‘sea of sameness’
Deja Vuesday: Memo to all Thrift, Resale & Consignment Shops re Success
Posted in Deja Vuesday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, Products for the Professional Resaler, sea of sameness on August 17, 2010| 1 Comment »
You got a logo…so use it!
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, sea of sameness on August 15, 2010| 8 Comments »
A logo is designed to make your consignment or resale shop…even your thrift store…easily memorable.
So why not (more…)
Consignment / resale shop Weekend Project
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, NARTS Conference, sea of sameness on June 5, 2010| 3 Comments »
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Here’s the perfect weekend project for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers, assuming no one’s graduating or getting married this perfect June day. It’s advertising, it’s PR, it’s a way of pulling your business out of the dreaded Sea of Sameness, and it’s fun as well: create (more…)
Recycled store display fixtures are the bomb!
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged display, sea of sameness on June 2, 2010| 3 Comments »
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…)
Variation on a Theme: Consignment – Crazy!
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, sea of sameness on May 18, 2010| 2 Comments »
Maybe you’ve already seen this shot I took of a children’s consignment shop. Their peeky-bear (more…)
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