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The walls of your consignment or resale shop can be the most valuable real estate in your location… if you use them well!

Or do your walls look like this?

 

These empty walls just cry for some Shop Sizzle, says Kate Holmes of TGtbT.com

Imagine all the selling, and “stage-setting”, that could be going on on these empty walls. Enough to make a grown shopkeeper cry.

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A few ideas for inspiration, if your walls are not pulling their own weight:

Don’t you love the book-page wall treatment?

If you have a carpenter in the family, or own stock in Ikea, wouldn’t this wall be a wow in your shop?

Don’t you love the hanging shoes? Breaking up a wall like this is very useful in resale, since we tend to have related batches, rather than rack after rack of the same item.

Now, your walls don’t have to be chock-a-block with merchandise, if that’s not your style.

Here’s a gorgeous example from Misred, a shop in St. Pete FL:

Simple but attractive wall display area, from AuntieKate.wordpress.comLoving the painted (stenciled? wall decal?) tree with a hook, the small platform/ “planter” that grounds it, and the careful eye that created the above-rack displays!

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If I could treat all my resale friends to a piece of celebratory cake today for International Resale Day, I would! But instead, here’s (more…)

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It's gotta go sale tactics for consignment and resale shops, from TGtbT.comBack a while, we ran a poll on Auntie Kate the Blog. Here’s what consignment & resale shopkeepers thought about that (more…)

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It’s hard to relax when you’ve got nagging questions about your consignment, thrift or resale shop. If you want to dive into a thrilling read at the beach, Auntie Kate has some titles to suggest.

Beaching RTeading to build your consignment, resale, or thrift business from TGtbT.com

Need a good beach read?

Well, there’s no heaving bosoms (unless it’s yours heaving with ideas for your shop) or burning buildings (unless it’s your shop getting HOTHOTHOT) on this list, but I think you’ll find some helpful ideas on this blog post from Constant Contact.

My personal recommendations are here, ready to order from Amazon (and of course, they list second-hand copies too!) if you are intrigued.

Books about retailing in general are here, including this summer’s fave, E-Myth Revisited.

Still browsing the shelves? Here’s 53 recommendations from Goodreads.

Just don’t forget the sunscreen!

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Don’t be shy. If you want them to “share” a Facebook post or “forward this email to a friend”, you have to ask for it.

Same goes for (more…)

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