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Stuff for consignment and resale shopkeepers to do over the weekend.

Posted in I've been meaning to tell you, Shopkeeping talk, Weekend Warrior, tagged , on June 11, 2010|

Make a friend in the resale, thrift, consignment business

Click the friends to join us!

* Check out the “Blogs for Consignment & Resale Shopkeepers” I posted a while back. Add the ones you love by adding a comment to this entry.

* Learn how NOT to play store (a 4-part series.) Tell us about when you finally felt like a real grown-up proprietor by clicking on comment.

* Listen to some new music. Tell us what you listen to.

* Find out what kind of flower you are. (I’m still a daffodil.)

See a trend here? Getting involved means a lot. To you, to your business, to me. Sittin’ by yourself under the apple tree doesn’t do nothin’. Take PART. Geez, you cannot live on tweets.

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Just a quick refresher: Sale or sell?

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on April 28, 2010| 2 Comments »

She sells sea shells, which are nothing more than used clothes, right?Sell is a verb. So you don’t “price things for quick sell”, you price them for quick sale. It’s not a clearance sell. She sells sea shells all day long. The grouper offered her ten clams in exchange for the abalone soap dish. She wanted to sell it, so she accepted.

Sale is a noun. A sale is the total purchase, individually (She made a big sale of 27 sea urchins to one tourist) or as a group (She made a lot of sales at her sea shell booth.)

Sometimes, you (more…)

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Purse party, taken to new heights.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Used Stuff in the News, tagged , , , on April 23, 2010|

Louboutin stilettosWhat do you do when you want to expand your business but your market area is just too small for you? Even if it IS Los Angeles?

Or if you want to find better consignors?

You take it on the road.

Here’s the in-home purse party, the Avon or Tupperware party, taken to (more…)

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Hashtags, Twitter, & NARTS Conference

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on April 3, 2010| 2 Comments »

buy the shirt, click for linkThinking that both attendees of NARTS Conference 2010 in Palm Beach FL and those who cannot attend this year would like to Tweet about all the events, let’s start a hashtag we can (more…)

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Can Tweeting kill your consignment or resale shop?

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on April 1, 2010| 2 Comments »

Can Twitter kill your business?

Can Tweeting be bad for your business health?

Everyone always makes fun of Stupid Tweets like “Eating a BLT yum yum”… but what about those Tweets sent by consignment and resale shops to their (presumably) customers? Some just leave me scratching my head.

Gently worn items added this week. Great deals (more…)

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