Love to look back on the past year, and when I do it here on Auntie Kate the Blog, I can really see what interests… and what scares… consignment, resale and thrift shopkeepers the most. For example…
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Posts Tagged ‘selling’
Preparing to KEEP your consignment shop’s New Year’s Resolution
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignment, resale shopkeeping, selling on January 2, 2013|
Stuff that Stocking!
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, Teeny Tips, tagged christmas, holidays, selling, success on December 17, 2012| 1 Comment »
Click for a template for your Stocking Stuffer signs
Your consignment, thrift, or resale shop has LOTS of merchandise that would make good stocking stuffers, doesn’t it?
Make sure that harried, frazzled, budget-tight shoppers know that!
Nothing’s easier to do than (more…)
Report from the Front: Christmas Shopping
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged christmas, holidays, selling, web on December 15, 2012|
Oh, heck, Every year, I swear I’ll be DONE with Christmas shopping by now. After all, Christmas occurs like clockwork every December 25. So why would I subject myself to venturing into stores at this time of year?
Why, to report (more…)
Shopping resale online… infinite variations
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignment, selling, web on December 14, 2012| 2 Comments »
A nice summary article from The New York Times about shopping consignment/ resale online.
How can you use these companies’ high-flying concepts
to improve the shopping and supplying aspects of your shop, or to make the online shopping you have on your web site more productive? After all, these folks have big money and marketing brains behind them, and we can do some electronic brain picking right from the comfort of our homes/ shops/ couches.
Take a look. Update: The NYT now limits access to their past articles unless you pay for (caution, pun approaching) … second-hand news. We’d love to hear what you take away from your study of these companies. Take a minute to share in the comments below!
Ho ho, I’m off doing the shopping thing…
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged holidays, resale shopkeeping, selling, starting a consignment shop on December 1, 2012|
Time for the Polka Dot PT to turn into Santa’s sleigh, so I’m off to my local consignment and thrift shops with wallet in hand…
but here’s a (more…)
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