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Another opportunity to tell your story!

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , , , on March 1, 2018| 2 Comments »

Make your Facebook cover photo… be a video! Here’s a consignment/ resale example or two:

https://www.facebook.com/SarahCyrusHome/

https://www.facebook.com/SimpleConsign

This one’s not of our industry… but imagine the fast-forward technique of you dressing a mannequin or accessorizing a bookcase!

Here’s a how-to article and more info plus great ideas and examples!

Free videos? Of course. If you’re too busy/ distracted/ unclear on the concept, try a freebie.
Maker Moon has some great ones. Take a look at their “Accordion Slider” which to me is SO perfect for resale. 5 captions, 5 models… 5 reasons to choose your shop, whether it’s resale, consignment or thrift, and whether you sell women’s fashion, kidswear, home furnishings or… anything!

Makermoon does other formats too, as in Instagram, Facebook… or blog 🙂 Here’s one I made in a few moments.

Other free sites, other free info, check out Google.

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Bet YOU have some great advocates too!

Posted in Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , , , on February 24, 2018| 2 Comments »

Azalea had SUCH a great idea: Invite fashion-savvy, outgoing, customers to create a look out of your merchandise in stock and model it for you… wow! Now this is a Kudos idea!

Kudos because:

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Brand your photos in one easy step.

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on February 16, 2018| 3 Comments »

Okay, you’ve heard me rant preach discuss putting your shop’s name, tag, URL, whatever, in all your

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It’s not enough to say #shoplocal.

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , , , on February 12, 2018| 2 Comments »

Asking your community to #shoplocal is not enough. You need to show them What’s in It for Me?

Tell them WHY shopping local is good for THEM, says TGtbT.com

They don’t care that you’re the “lifeblood of our community”. They’re looking for the why’s, the how-come’s, what they will get out of shopping local.

Why are you asking your community to #shoplocal? Here’s a dozen reasons, designed to (more…)

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Are your pictures silent?

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , on February 8, 2018|

Is mum the only word for your social media pix? TGtbT.blog recommends you get chatty!

Is mum the only word for your social media pix?

Are your pictures silent?

That is, do you take shots of your merchandise and that’s it, you just post them on all those social media channels you have so carefully constructed… without a WORD as to what we’re looking at, why we might possibly want it, indeed, what YOU were thinking to bother showing it to us?

Never post “silent” pictures. They are ineffective and worse, they’re annoying to your fans and followers. You’re interrupting them to get their attention, then giving them nothing for their time.

Worried that you’ll have nothing to say? (This is the weirdest thing about my resale friends… they always fret that there’s nothing to say when I ask them to caption a photo, write a blog post, be social in social media, but DANG! You can’t shut ’em up when they get together in person!)

Well, write this sentence out and tape it to your office wall, your laptop, heck, your forehead:

What’s so FAB (Features, Advantages, Benefits)?

What do I mean? You can use Features, Advantages, and/or Benefits to make your pictures sing! Like:

Features: “The industrial zipper on this lace blouse takes it from ho-hum “sweet” to SWEEET!”

Advantage: “Outfit your new office with this swivel chair and desk for $150 and save your new business startup budget hundreds of dollars on Day One!”

Benefit: Keep the kiddos warm this winter: Our selection of snowsuits and snow boots will have them playing outdoors for hours (ah, blessed silence…)”

See? When your thinking gets FAB, your social media gets results!

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