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Lights, camera (please Santa)… and consignment/ resale ACTION!

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , on December 4, 2013|

Video's the way to go: Ask SantaMaybe you should ask Santa for a video camera for Christmas, if you want to make your consignment, resale, or thrift shop

shine online.

Then all you have to do is find an eleven-year-old elf to help you edit and publish!

Some resources that will have you ready to produce videos for your business:

Vertical Response’s suggestions

No video camera? You can still (there’s a pun there) make a video!

How video is important not just online, but in your store

And some examples you can learn from, from our industry peers:

Furniture Consignment

A video for a shop contest and a fun “10 tips” video

A collection of ideas Auntie Kate posted about videos

And even a nice, polite way to tell donors how to donate to a NFP thrift shop

Santa the Photog illustration from here.

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Start now and end up with a brand-new web site for 2014!

Posted in economics of resale, Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on November 24, 2013|

Here’s a little something to mull over for the New Year:

Yes, you can create a fully-customizable web site for your consignment shopCreate and CONTROL your shop’s web site on your own.

You know how it goes. That web site some dude designed for you a while back is now out of date, or (more…)

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Could someone please explain this to me?

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on November 11, 2013| 13 Comments »

Read this Facebook post. Then tell me how this makes marketing sense.

Facebook posting from a consignment shop

I’ve never understood this selling technique. I love “we’ll pay the sales tax” promos…. they always seem more valuable to the consumer than they actually cost the business. So why (more…)

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Let’s kill those overwhelming e-newsletters, shall we?

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on November 4, 2013| 1 Comment »

The days of the “old fashioned”, long winded chatty newsletter are gone! Now-a-days people want something relevant for them and quick, quick, quick to take a peek at and move onto the next email.

Consignment shop e-newsletter

Yes, this is an actual consignment shop e-newsletter.

Found (more…)

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One of the challenges Bricks-&-Mortars have…

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , on October 30, 2013| 2 Comments »

Google Map is there to represent youOne of the challenges Bricks-&-Mortars have is getting on that darn Google Map.

How do you have the best possible results? Go ahead, enter (more…)

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