If your area doesn’t have a brochure of local resale shops to offer customers, and if you’ve tried to rally your peers to create one without success, (more…)
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Kudos: Your Local Resale Shops Brochure
Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged competition, resale shopkeeping, small business, success on February 26, 2018| 4 Comments »
You don’t gotta be an Einstein
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, resale shopkeeping, small business, thought for the day on February 21, 2018|
You don’t gotta be an Einstein to make your consignment, resale or thrift shop operate smoother, make more money, or simply be more fun and less work to run.
But it doesn’t hurt.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
So, if you were thinking (more…)
How long should your email be?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, email, resale shopkeeping, small business, starting a consignment shop on February 5, 2018|
The average person spends 51 seconds reading an email newsletter. And with the normal person reading at a rate of 200 wpm, that 51 seconds equates to them reading about 170 words.
What can you say in 170 words?
Well, you’d better include (more…)
#hashtagtheheckoutofit
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, Facebook, resale shopkeeping, small business, Twitter, web, word of mouth on January 30, 2018| 2 Comments »
Yup, that’s Hashtag the Heck Out of It with a pound sign.
Why not make your followers want to search you out on social media #everysingleday with a themed hashtag to go with each day of the week? Highlight one piece of merchandise, one outfit, one room setup.
Like:
#markdownmonday: Choose one, preferably ultra-popular, (more…)
The Cure for Cabin Fever is Within Your Power
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged resale shopkeeping, small business, social networking, starting a consignment shop, success, web on January 16, 2018| 3 Comments »
Cabin fever is real…
and requires immediate attention!
Your shoppers and suppliers are as sick of the weather as you and your bank account are. They want to (more…)
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