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Building, or polishing, your website. Step by step.

Posted in Functional Friday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on January 26, 2018|

Websites. Ugh.No heavy lifting involved with these tips from TGtbT.blog

Is that your reaction? I’m betting it’s because of

  • The expense, time, and communications problems with your website expert.
  • The amateur look of so many of those “instant website” programs.
  • The difficulties of constantly getting your webmaster to update stuff.

Guess what? There’s a simple solution with no heavy lifting involved. You can do it, and keep it updated, yourself. If you can construct a display window, you can display your business in your space, for your benefit, without following Facebook or Instagram or anyone else’s “rules.”

Example: (more…)

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The Cure for Cabin Fever is Within Your Power

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , , 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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Is your brain holiday’d out?

Posted in Functional Friday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , , on December 1, 2017|

If you’ve run out of ideas about telling your customers how wonderful resale is for the holidays, here’s 50 angles you could use:

50 Days & 50 Ways to Have a Merry Recycled Holiday

Keep the LIGHT in Christmas by celbrating the resale way | TGtbT.comIt’s a blog written directly for the public, with all the ways to use resale shopping to have an eco-friendly celebration. This link takes you to the start page of the blog, and from there you can explore:

Day-by-day: Use the calendar to click on each day… there’s one post per day.
or

By topic: there’s 5 categories to choose from just below that calendar.

Check it out,  and feel free to link to any of the 50 resale-centric, consumer-angled posts there!

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5 Consignment Hacks

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on November 27, 2017|

Slay your competition with these 5 hacks for consignment, resale, and thrift shops, to make your consignment shop be

your marketplace’s FIRST CHOICE for secondhand:

1- Don’t let your shop not be seen for the forest.

Competition is good for all businesses but especially for consignment, thrift and resale shops.

Click to read how very simple this truly is.

2- How you price affects how you sell.

Pricing is an art. One you can learn.

How you price affects whether you succeed. Click for the most-requested Product for the Professional Resaler.

3- Stand out from the Crowd

Make sure your consignment shop stands out from the rest, says Auntie Kate of TGtbT.com

Don’t bore them. Delight them. EVERY day. Make your shop SIZZLE! Click for resale-friendly advice.

4- Do something DIFFERENT and EASIER (for you and your shoppers!) :

The Bag Sale That Isn't, a blog post from TGtbT.blog

Click to read “The Bag Sale That Isn’t”

5- And finally, let THIS be your guiding light:

Resources to help you use these hacks:

The MoneyWise Guide to Accepting & Pricing for Resale.

10 Tactics to make your Shop Sizzle.

Pinterest: The Business of Consignment, Running a Resale Shop, Thrift Store How-tos

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Underdog Tactics for Black Friday

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , , on November 21, 2017|

Underdog Tactics for resale & consignment shops from TGtbT.com

Just because you can’t afford a circular in the paper on Thanksgiving Day, and you’re not about to open at 5am for those crazy shoppers….

…doesn’t mean you can’t tempt some holiday bucks into your register this week!

Some tactics that are especially attuned to your scrappy-little-dog shop, to highlight how small can be mighty:

First off, don’t sacrifice profits!

Price is NOT  (more…)

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