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Make your windows look like spring!
Posted in economics of resale, My Favorite Things, Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged daily operations, display, Products for the Professional Resaler, resale shopkeeping, small business, starting a consignment shop, success on March 1, 2015|
Is it dreary around your neck of the woods? Would a little spring color help enliven your consignment or resale shop windows and swing shops? Here’s some Pinspiration from the TGtbT boards:
Bright colors from the ceiling down look great over furniture displays or dress form outfits. Remember doing these in grade school?
Ice cream cones: what could be yummier in a kidswear window? Surprisingly easy to make for your shop!
Another “remember when?” craft from your prepubescent years. These lanterns look especially wonderful used in tight groupings of 3 or 5.
Need more resale-specific window dressing ideas? You got ’em in Window Displays Especially for Resale Shops
Windows that WOW don’t happen by accident. Learn the hidden secrets of resale eye candy that nobody tells you and how to make awesome displays of your one-of-a-kind merchandise as you Display. Sell. Repeat your way to awesome profits. This 48-page PDQ shows you how to choose, create, and sell everything with affordable, time-effective ways to DIY your own “Windows Worth a Thousand Words.”
Read about
- * what windows can do for your bottom line
- * how to learn (for free!) from the professionals
- * tools and concepts about window displays
- * ready-made themes for every week of the year
- * our famous 77 Suggestions for Super Windows
- * plus Display Ideas from A to Z
Includes a 10-point checklist for staffers to follow, FAQs, and ideas from shopkeepers like you! Make your business stand out from the crowd with windows that WOW! Order your own PDF of The Big Book of Window Displays now.
Love Ghurka handbags?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, resale shopkeeping, success on February 25, 2015| 4 Comments »
One of my favorite handbag manufacturers is Ghurka. Actually, I love everything they make, from briefcases (and knife rolls!) to campaign furniture.
I can’t get enough of Ghurka’s timeless, functional designs. If the same is true of you and your consignment/ resale customers, I’ve just discovered a real treat: the Ghurka web site has tips on dating their vintage bags, and even prices the bags sold for!
Drool over their vintage archive. And here’s eBay’s current list of vintage Ghurka purses… check and make sure you haven’t overlooked these in your shop stock!
Do you get Ghurka bags in? Do you have similar sites for other designer handbag resources that you’d like to share with your fellow consignment, resale, or thrift store? Tell us in the comments, below!
Thought for the Day. It’ll make you smile or ponder.
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, Teeny Tips, tagged resale shopkeeping, small business, starting a consignment shop, success, thought for the day, web on February 17, 2015|
As consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers, we have lots and lots of people to interact with and a zillion things to do.
And sometimes, just sometimes, we can all get a bit too, shall we say, focused?
Maybe this graphic will make you smile or will relieve a bit of stress.
What will the death of malls do to the resale industry?
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged competition, resale shopkeeping, small business, starting a consignment shop, success on January 12, 2015|
If your business relies on a steady influx of underloved possessions from consumers…
if, in other words, you are a consignment, resale, or thrift shop,
in a bricks-&-mortar location or online only, what do you anticipate the “death of malls” will do for your business?
Lazarus, long gone now, was the anchor store in the two Columbus OH malls where I began my learning curve as a retailer.
Premature obituaries for the shopping mall have been appearing since the late 1990s, but the reality today is
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