Info for resalers of all sorts here on Auntie Kate the Blog.

Interested in starting a consignment, resale, thrift shop?

• Here’s a story of a shop which started out very humble and succeeded beyond its founder’s wildest dreams.
• How to open a consignment store
• Is now a good time to open a consignment shop?
• How to open a consignment shop. And how NOT to.
• If I started today…
• Things I wouldn’t do… if I were starting today

What you must have, if you want your shop to be all you dream it can be:

Click to read about the Manual, see the Table of Contents, and read the intro. Get our Beginner’s Luck Package here!

Our Publications for the Professional Resaler  make your shop easier to run, more profitable, and more fun!

Most Popular Blog Posts

First, our most popular blog post: a series called 4 Days to Resale Success.

Another series: How Resalers can Make the Holidays Special and spare the earth at the same time

The most profit-generating posts

• Five to Thrive
• The 4 Rules of Making it BIG in Consignment
• This is the one that’s most widely-ignored yet easiest and cheapest to do.
• Profit? Spell it Perceived Value.

The BIG Picture: Auntie Kate the Blog on

• Starting a shop
• Merchandising your shop
• Advertising your business
• Accepting merchandise

But I do it DIFFERENT

• Examining seasonal consignment events
• I’m more into recycling and ecology than being a financial czar
• Most important to me? Making my shop stand out from the rest

Our Professional Resalers’ Sites are where I help shopkeepers start a consignment shop, grow their resale shop, even make their thrift shop thrive:

My flagship site, Too Good to be Threw, is http://tgtbt.com/ That’s also where my Products for the Professional Resaler are available along with articles and ideas.

Kate’s blog: http://TGtbT.blog/ “Where Kate Holmes, Industry Icon of TGtbT.com, gets to hector, lecture, and browbeat the good shopkeepers of Resale-dom”

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarasotakate is me, and the TG business page is https://www.facebook.com/2Good2BThrew

And Twitter: https://twitter.com/2Good2BThrew

And Pinterest http://pinterest.com/2good2bthrew/   with so many interesting visuals linked, in most cases, to useful info.

Here’s every one of our blog posts, listed from the earliest to the latest:

• My first post. Isn’t it CUTE?
• Steal it, sell it on eBay.
• Everybody’s doin’ it…
• Drawing browsers into a back room
• Gimmee a break
• Husband maintains shop as loving tribute to late wife
• A Magic Carpet to a Better Shop for you and your clientele
• Couture Candy… guess that’s the only kind their audience eats
• “How long you been here?”
• Four weeks to Conference… here’s your To-Do List!
• The lushness of life
• Politicians and the Recycle Vote
• Three weeks until Conference!
• Twinkle with enthusiasm!
• Down to the Wire
• We just did what every other store in our city does.
• Cute shop…strange remark
• Just ONE week!
• “So, what do you do for a living?”
• Are you a frequent eater?
• Resale in the News: Things you might have missed
• The debt we owe: Liz Claiborne
• Alas and alack… they don’t love you back.
• The billboard you can carry in your pocket.
• Flip flops, Manolo Blahniks, whatEVER
• Roswell: The Paris of Alien Couture
• When was the last time you got a real live honest-to-gosh letter?
• What’s a label whore?
• Happy birthday, emoticon, baby! 😉
• Soon, there will be only half as many…
• You never know who’s watching…
• We we we all the way home….
• Look at it this way…
• Recipes. One of the best parts of friendship.
• This book by Sam Horn just POPped out at me…
• When in doubt, right-click.
• Thinking about a blog for your shop?
• How green can you be…drinking water from far far away…
• More we-we-we-we comments
• Magical mystery tour…
• Something that’s always puzzled me
• Imagine my surprise!
• Anyone besides me notice this disconnect here?
• The saga continues
• The thrill of the hunt
• The growth outlook for resale shops
• My dirty little secret.
• Singing veggies
• Busy? Overwhelmed? Frustrated?
• You’d never know by looking?
• Hurricane Katrina could not defeat the resale industry
• Pardon me, your attitude is showing
• Life’s a challenge
• Chicken in Pants
• A tiny slice of (your) life
• How to open a (wildly successful) consignment shop
• The Ebb and Flow of Merchandising
• Small business is alive and well
• Selling a sale!
• Thought for the Day
• How can a consignment shop go BANKRUPT?
• My favorite things, or, Kate as your personal shopper
• Toxic TV
• Q & A Time: Success is overwhelming this consignment shop owner
• Is there any such thing as “TMI”?
• A Favorite Thing: Elegant chalkboard
• Kate learns something new
• How to love to go to work every morning (even if sometimes it’s all 7 mornings)
• Setting Limits: Must you work 24/7 to succeed in business?
• How to get browsers to buy less
• Another Favorite Thing
• Consignment around the world!
• If you want to wear silk
• What I do when I am not hectoring, lecturing, and browbeating resalers
• Helping teens find their personal style
• Make your holiday windows a delight
• It all started with a pair of gym socks.
• Is your resale shop the place to be?
• Ding Dong Merrily on High….
• Don’t you love double duty? Another Favorite Thing
• How strict are your policies?
• How do *shoplifters* get away with it?
• Are YOU your biggest stumbling block?
• Quick, hide your “illegal” possession: The Ron Paul Dollar
• Snow, snow, and more snow
• Such gay holiday wrappings… such disgusting trash!
• Look what I found!
• Living Zombies
• Another Favorite Thing…and a Christmas Present Solution!
• Have yourself a Polka-Dotty Christmas!
• Christmas Eve Disasters… Resale-Style
• 30% off, 50% off, 75% off…ho hum.
• Razzle-Dazzle Them: Your New Year’s Resolution?
• Will ’08 be great?
• More ways to go bankrupt, even if you don’t pay for your merchandise
• Another Favorite Thing
• Looking over the year….
• The top 5% and the Top 2%: I hope you’re in there
• Is your shop a store…or a storage facility?
• Favorite and Fabulous!
• Why Resale Does WELL when Consumers Cut Back
• What a Croc….
• Valentine’s at the Restaurant: Business super tonight but…
• OOOHHH, let’s go GREEN… by buying more STUFF
• It’s nice to be mentioned….
• Favorite thing, at a favorite price: one nickel
• Customer benefits…even when they aren’t
• Leaping Lizards: A Leap Day Promotional Event for your Shop
• What we can learn from Starbucks
• Done your STRETCHING Today?
• A novel approach to gaining suppliers
• Recession? In resale? Ya gotta be kidding
• Two decades of working with consignment & resale shops
• Are you giving away the store?
• Another View on Resale
• So now you know…this is me BEFORE the phone booth
• What we all can learn from Girl Scout cookies
• Another Favorite Thing at my absolute complete perfect favorite price
• The Banner Index to Recession-Tracking
• What do you think this means?
• Promoting the heck out of your shop
• What, this old bag?
• I’ve been meaning to tell you, Issue 1
• Happy Earth Day
• Don’t tell me what I missed
• Is it Tuesday? Time for tapas!
• Manikins…umm, ladykins… another favorite thing!
• Negativity in Retail: You Become what you Make your Customers Think
• Adaptive reuse Favorite Thing
• The Most Valuable FREE Thing You’ll Ever Get
• Does Resale make YOUR Heart Race?
• I’ve been meaning to tell you, $4 a gallon-wise…
• Oh say can you see…an opportunity to get press coverage?
• I’ve been meaning to tell you about cheap clothes.
• STAYcations can be a boon to business!
• Have you invited them?
• Oh my gosh only 3 weeks ’til Conference 2008!
• Cool decor that will MORE than pay for itself: A Favorite Thing Indeed!
• How to open a consignment shop. And how NOT to.
• Getting ready to board the buses!
• Resale? Consignment? Thrift? What’s the deal here?
• When there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them
• Favorite Thing: New Dressing Room Curtains!
• Poking one’s nose in other people’s business
• I’ve been meaning to tell you….
• 4 Days to Resale Success!
• Day 1: Don’t overthink
• Day 2: Think about the consequences of your actions
• Day 3: Collect all available info
• Day 4: Focus on the Big Picture
• The only language with “making money”
• The 4th’s a family holiday, and God love ’em.
• What is Perceived Value and where can I get me some?
• Up against the wall… I’ve been meaning to tell you
• Perceived Value: What does MY customer want, and how can I give it to her?
• Perceived value and old clothes. Oxymoron? Day 3 of our webinar
• Perceived Values includes Positive Outcomes
• Perceived Value and The Lipstick Index
• A Challenge to all Resale, Consignment and Thrift Shops
• Who’s in charge here: Mother Nature or The Great Consumer in the Sky?
• The Ideal Consignor or Seller
• The 10 Best Ways to Ruin a Resale Business
• I’ve been meaning to tell you about square watermelons
• How cute are THESE?
• How to turn outdated shoulder pads into next month’s rent.
• Got Foamcore?
• RSS in Plain English…and our Best Back to School Display Contest
• The 52 Things Challenge: Do you DARE to take it?
• How to Fold a T-shirt in Two Seconds Flat… step by step instructions
• Ugly Days at Woman’s Exchange
• Thought for the Day
• International Resale Day July 18 2009
• Almost 3000 people want to know…
• My heavens, that’s TEN years ago! TGtbT.com in 1998
• Looking around for ideas: at the dentist
• Everyone wants just EXACTLY what THEY want.
• They ask: “Has Shopping Lost its Charm?”
• Oldie AND Goodie!
• Recycling… and UPcycling!
• The 10 Best Resale Shop Web Sites
• Fay fizzles…what an advertising opportunity!
• Something new to wear…to buy…to sell!
• Save your Sanity: Today’s Quotation of Use
• Back To School, College, or Work Window Displays
• See-through lighting: Definitely a Favorite Thing
• Are we any different from “real” stores?
• Style Staples from Tim Gunn and Tide: A Resale Selling Tool
• How many yards of clothes do YOU offer?
• Buy it today, it may not be here tomorrow….or at least put it in layaway.
• Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd
• How to open a consignment store: Second Hand is First Rate when you aim for Resale Success!
• Been meaning to ask you: How’s your elevator speech?
• Whither incoming?
• You know that T-shirt with the stain?
• Halloween’s a MONSTER in Resale Shops
• Go on, gedoutta here.
• How many resalers beat Old Navy to the punch?
• Can’t be a retail success unless you’re open
• Subject lines designed to get you READ
• Aren’t you glad Freecycle exists?
• Clicks to amuse & enlighten you this weekend
• Get crackin’, as my Granpappy used to say!
• Giving your customers more than they’d planned on off your $1 rack
• Add to your to-do list: Read THIS List!
• Free Halloween Costume Ideas from HowToConsign.com
• Favorite Thing: Make your Countertop a Seasonal Display!
• Scarecrows and Consignment: Match Made in Marketing!
• Take a news story about libraries, and see where it takes your resale shop…
• Wendy Sam is cheap. Way cheap.
• Not doing anything different.
• A Treat for Resale and Consignment Shopkeepers
• An idea to adapt….
• Flamingoville gets off to a good start
• The Flamingo Has Landed
• Bird brains? Not at all!
• Herding Cats
• Goodie Bags, goodie bags….
• Resale Roundtable Poolside
• Absorbing resale information and Florida sun
• Oldie but Better than Ever Goodie
• Get Started with Social Networking: Learn How
• No more playing store.
• You cannot afford to play store.
• Another of Auntie Kate’s Favorite Things
• “She must be playing store.”
• Quitcher…dreamin’
• Resale in the News, in the Spotlight, and in the GROW-lights
• Is it just me…
• Tell them “I’m not playing store here.”
• A picture’s worth a thousand words…or $39.99, whichever’s cheaper
• Did you get this email from eBay?
• Taking a Second Look
• So many Christmas marketing ideas, so little time…
• Holidays: Make them special for kids
• Holidays: Make them special for your relatives
• Holidays: Make them special for your town
• Holidays: Make them special for your community spirit
• What does a 3-year-old “want” for Christmas?
• How to negotiate (for timid people who hate conflict)
• Has retail desperation jaded me?
• Got a Handy Santa?
• Santa not so Handy after all?
• You simply MUST have these.
• What flower are you?
• The cost of winging it
• Well, no sequin sheath for me, come New Year’s
• Christmas Budget Getting Low but still one shopkeeper to go?
• Our coupon’s so popular, we might as well…
• It’s Christmas: Cut the chains of slavery
• Wrapping it all up. Pretty & pretty eco-responsible.
• All I want for Christmas
• Christmas is Past.
• 99 Things for Resale Shopkeepers to blog about.
• Your kids’ closets are full of hazardous waste
• Going to Prison. The crime? Recycling.
• The government declares YOU a CRIMINAL on Tuesday Feb. 10
• CPSC’s Julie Vallese wants consignment & resale shopkeepers to get a BACKBONE
• Is now a good time to open a consignment shop?
• Recession’s GOOD for Resale
• Keeping your “regular shoppers” regular
• There’s nothing on my fridge
• Just about EVERYONE is affected by CPSIA
• A little levity may be in order for resalers.
• Social confirmation: Were you part of the IN crowd?
• How does your resale shop rank?
• My consignment shop? I’d rank it 6, max.
• Trunk shows: Getting your town shopping again
• If I could sew
• The difference between thriving resale shops and those struggling
• Today’s thought
• Somewhere over the rainbow….
• How this consignment story takes me back!
• I’m a Constant Contact All Star!
• Aw, look at that. That’s so CUTE. And better yet, EFFECTIVE.
• Even Wal-Mart gets it.
• How to Manual goes GREEN!
• How to save 20% in less than 3 minutes. Oh, and save the Earth while you’re at it.
• The 3/50 Project: Why I can’t get totally behind it even though I LOVE the idea
• Real or fake designer bag? It can be hard to tell.
• The #2 FREE Practically-FREE Edge resale shops have
• International Take a Photo Weekend
• Is this a 10 or a 10 Petite or a 10 Jane?
• Recycled Fashions and Upcycling Style
• Whatever happened to May Day?
• Too Good to be Threw Shop of the Week
• $1,000,000 profit in 7 years
• Picture’s worth… is it 1,000 words or 1,000 bucks?
• Take the shirt off your back and put on the one in your back room
• I’m NOT procrastinating, I’m organizing
• Can you read minds?
• Happy Mother’s Day, Mom
• An inspirational moment…
• Seasonal consignment sales
• Marketing apps so easy, even I understand them.
• Who wins? WordPress, Twitter, Facebook amongst resalers?
• The Shift towards Thrift: 6 Nudges to Apply
• Consignment / Resale Shop of the Week #5
• What’s the perception of your consignment or resale shop?
• Your customer’s secret passion: SURPRISE me!
• Writing for a resale audience
• Ephemeral email, tangible postcards
• Shopping Resale: Is it perfectly natural in your town?
• What to Pack for Conference
• Conference Contest! Tell It in TEN
• How To Consign #1 on Google, now #1 on Bing too!
• HowToConsign on a ROLL….
• Exceedingly Handy and Profit-Building Favorite Thing
• Duck & Hummingbird for breakfast…
• Sunshine Girls (and Guys) at Sunset
• In between Conference workshops…
• Twitter for Resale & Consignment Shopkeepers
• What a waste of a web site.
• Take a shot at it, resalers!
• Been Meaning to Tell You: Alexander Graham Bell’s Magic Profit Machine
• Are you Just Another Shop?
• Ah, ah, the winds of fashion
• Love Loss and What I Wore: The Giveaway
• Beauty or serenity that comes with age
• You’re entering the Need Season
• Implied Approval and how it can make you rich.
• How Strong are YOUR Passwords?
• Need an excuse to visit Paris?
• Look at it this way.
• Rising above it all.
• Are you ready for the Wizard of Oz?
• Up 23%, down 30%, up 19%, what’s going on?
• Are your fence gates open?
• What do you sell in your consignment or resale shop?
• How long should your email, ad, blog message be?
• The Trap of Twitpic
• “This is the GREATEST shop!”
• Who’s Next in the Consignment Biz?
• School started yesterday.
• TV Turnoff week
• Your blog is your mothership
• Easiest consignment question asked me ever!
• Fun, fun consignment, resale shop blog post
• Come here often?
• Don’t do this, resalers. (Well, anyone really but especially consignment shopkeepers being interviewed.)
• Twitter for Business: Consignment & Resale Division
• Come on in, set awhile. Why NOT to use Twitpic
• Let’s go to the mailbox! A consignment shop owner asks:
• Another mailbox request! Renaming a going consignment business
• Some MORE Halloween Ideas
• HowToConsign.com beats out Facebook.
• A blog to turn your Consignment, Resale, and Thrift customers on to!
• A business plan in 3 words: funny thing, it worked.
• Seasonal consignment sales: What are YOU doing?
• Getting Complaints is Like Winning the Lottery!
• Win a Brace of Bellies! UPDATE: Winners announced!
• How much is YOUR floor space worth?
• Make your kidstuff consignment shop a Must-Stop.
• 7 Ways to Makeover Your Old Shoes For Fall
• Sure glad I’m not manning the sales desk here.
• A vampire and a princess walk into a consignment shop….
• I’ll bet you thought I forgot all about the princess.
• Consignment Mailbox: Handling Dangerous Recalled Goods
• Love this look!
• Some fun finds
• God Bless the Web Masters
• Love these calendar downloads!
• Top Ten Resale Shop Sites 2009 Version
• Email, coupons, and pondering customer response
• Excuse me, but is your save-the-earth bag full of germs?
• Cash for Clothing Clunkers: Dare you?
• Consignment Mailbox: How many reusable bags does one responsible resale shopper NEED?
• The IT Issue
• Pumpkins all put away? Ready for a Merry Recycled Holiday?
• 5 things rich consignment & resale shopkeepers do differently than poor shopkeepers.
• How many costumes have you received this week?
• Stop Giving Cash Off in your Consignment Shop NOW
• Why Consignment & Resale Shops Shouldn’t Give Up the (Christmas) Ghost
• The display window you didn’t know you have.
• How much is a new customer worth? A burrito?
• Friday the 13th: Making your own Bad Luck
• Quote for the Day
• How to write to Santa
• Translating “Business Articles” into your Shop
• Wait! Maybe that’s NOT an NTY*!
• Hiding your (holiday) lights under a bushel.
• Recycling, regifting and repurposing previously- cherished…
• Consignment Mailbox: Blowing up snowmen
• One of the cutest consignment, resale, vintage names ever
• Buy your shop a merry little Christmas!
• Too busy to browse?
• Buy One Gift One…perfect consignment shop holiday promo.
• Wrapping Holiday Gifts: Eco-Problem your Consignment or Resale Shop Can Solve
• Being mindful in resale
• Spreading good will via candy canes
• How cool is THIS? Wonder how resalers could adapt…
• Recycling store fixtures in resale & consignment shops
• Last-minute Holiday Email Subject Lines for Resale & Consignment Shopkeepers
• Friends & Family Discounts work for consignment shops too!
• Is it time to start your winter clearance NOW?
• Are they frustrated enough to gift-shop in your shop yet?
• One week til Christmas!
• Gift a consignment shopkeeper, a resale peer, a thrifty friend
• Go shop.
• Whatcha gettin’ for Christmas?
• Need something to talk about at those awkward holiday gatherings?
• Christmas Eve Disasters Resale-style
• The day after Christmas can be a resale bonanza, in both ways.
• Go buy a lot of little Christmas trees this weekend.
• Is there still time to improve your shop this year? You betcha.
• Will next November be GREAT for your consignment shop?
• Is this consignment cheating? Resale rip-off? Thrift thievery? Tell us what you think.
• What are you proudest of having done in ’09?
• Blast from the Past: Is your Razzle Dazzling?
• Handy-Dandy Resolution List for Resale Shopkeepers
• Handy-dandy slow-time projects for consignment & resale shops
• OMG: Turning suppliers OFF
• Spelling is important too.
• Three for GLEE: Delighting Consignment and Resale Clients
• Before the Bag Sale the Big Tag Sale: a consignment and resale technique
• Talk about we-we-we
• Is it time to HOARD used goods? A message for consignment and resale shops…even thrifts!
• Wacky Wednesdays Begin TODAY: Win Something!
• How are you smarter than the other consignment shop?
• Consignment Mini-Tips
• Blast from the Past: Resale Nudges to Apply
• See? I TOLD you it wasn’t an NTY!
• And the winner is…
• Slow in your consignment shop? Go to the mall.
• Wacky Wednesday: How are you BROADENING your customer appeal?
• Consignment & resale shopkeepers Think Outside the Box at Too Good to be Threw
• Thinking outside the Box: Your Jewelry Showcase
• You aren’t a ditto business, are you?
• $50 TGtbT.com Gift Certificate goes to…
• Wacky Weds: How do you make your shop STICKY?
• Where’s my 87 cents? A Guide to Increasing your Prices for Consignment & Resale Shops.
• Need art?
• Here’s something to Twitter, Facebook or blog about, or send your email list….
• What if you had to save your shop?
• Everything you wanted to know from little paper people
• The 3 Secrets to Success by a guy who probably doesn’t even know what resale or consignment is.
• Ready to be overwhelmed with incoming?
• Things you can learn from First Ladies
• A Winner of a HowToConsign.com listing!
• Playing with lightning
• Wacky Wednesday: Best Piece of Advice you ever got?
• Your sales counter speaks to your customers. What is it saying?
• Fashion without Victim, Feng Shui & Sunshine.
• Snowed in but never snowed under, that’s resalers!
• 3…no 4!…pieces of excellent advice win our Giveaway!
• How much Tweeting is too much Twitter?
• Frugal versus Cheap: A Resaler’s Guide
• Wacky Wednesday Giveaway: Your all-time FAVORITE outfit
• If I started today…
• Things I wouldn’t do…if I were starting today
• Reporter inspires…a resale advertising approach
• 2 wasted opportunities in email
• And the winner’s a third generation recycler!
• A silly penny more…or less
• Others skate to the puck…
• Wacky Wednesdays: Woken up, smelling the coffee
• Silliest fine print I have ever seen.
• Ring ring here is your future calling.
• Are you violating Facebook manners?
• Are your coupons recyclable? If you’re consignment or resale, what else?
• Deja Vuesday: Did you miss this consignment story?
• Wacky Weds: What do you do….
• Paying for votes: what do you think?
• Is now the time to re-examine Buying Outright vs. Consigning?
• Riffs on Recycling
• The Lost Hour…
• Flamingos Flying to Virginia…and avatars coming in for a landing.
• Can your Consignment or Resale Customers Win a Free Party?
• Deja Vuesday: “I can’t seem to turn my consignors into shoppers!”
• Wacky Wednesday: What do you LOVE about being a resale shopkeeper?
• “Cheap is where it’s at”? Agree?
• Is it easy to be a consignor or supplier in your shop?
• The 4 Rules of Making it Big Time in Consignment
• Where did that hour go?
• Wacky Wednesday winner, and a question about pets in your resale shop
• Kate’s off shopping today.
• Deja Vuesday: “How long you been here?”
• Wacky Wednesday Giveaway: Kissin’ the Blarney Stone
• Seasonal sales and year-round shops: can they help each other? Part 1
• Can consignment shops & seasonal sales benefit each other? Part 2 of a series
• Consignment sales and year-round shops: can they help each other? Part 3
• Deja Vuesday: Are your consignment rules messing with YOUR head?
• Wacky Wednesday: Email opinions, tips, recommendations
• RoundUp of Fun Things for Consignment Shops
• Favorite Thing: A Swing Shop Skeleton
• When is FREE more than you can afford?
• Buying Outright: ‘Tis the season for consignment shops?
• Deja Vuesday all over again
• Can Tweeting kill your consignment or resale shop?
• Could be your consignment or resale shop’s next Favorite Thing!
• Hashtags, Twitter, & NARTS Conference
• Spring into Spring with a Facebook album.
• Is your consignment shop in a college town? Is your target resale customer a student?
• Mudflap Moments
• Can’t consign it? Can’t sell it? Maybe you should BUY it from them.
• Making it real…on tape
• Consignment & Resale Shopkeepers losing faith in Twitter
• Can you convert a browser to a customer in 4 minutes? No? How about if I give you twice the time?
• Did you forget Earth Day?
• Are 2-ways the bullet points of retail?
• Purse party, taken to new heights.
• What’s on their minds? Marketing locally
• Just a quick refresher: Sale or sell?
• Celebrate!
• Hiring a teen for the summer
• Does your consignment shop support the counterfeit trade? Your resale shop rip off copyright holders?
• Where are all the pictures?
• Customer Service? Ha!
• Consignment & Resale Shop Banners Draw Business
• Things mothers say… about consignment shopping.
• What perks do your favorite customers get?
• Jessica’s Place… Consignment with Style and Heart
• Make your consignment or resale shop stand out…
• Another way to extend your business reach.
• Bury the stinkers.
• Now, let’s tend our consignment and resale gardens.
• Variation on a Theme: Consignment – Crazy!
• College Kids Moving Out? Teach ’em to consign!
• Happy Weekend! Even consignment & resale shopkeepers get to have a weekend…
• What consignment shops can do with those illegal drop-side cribs.
• Paying for Facebook fans, Yahoo reviews, Merchant Circle endorsements?
• Countdown to NARTS Consignment and Resale Conference
• Teamwork: This part of staffing your store is crucial!
• Oh my, what a stunning consignment shop! A rare resale shop! A thrilling thrift!
• A simple moment of appreciation.
• Things you didn’t even know you needed.
• Recycled store display fixtures are the bomb!
• You have a friend in resale! A compadre in consignment, a pal in thrift!
• 3 weeks to go…imagine, we’ll be on the NARTS Resale Bus Tour this morning!
• Consignment / resale shop Weekend Project
• Are your windows doing their job?
• Consignment and Resale Display Inspiration
• Oh my papa, to me he is so wonderfully gently-used!
• Stuff for consignment and resale shopkeepers to do over the weekend.
• Thinking Outside the Box Part 2: Showcase Risers
• 1 Week ’til NARTS Consignment / Resale / Thrift Conference
• Cut it out: Making better consignment and resale photos
• Follow NARTS Conference…
• The Ultimate Recycled Footwear
• Are you #1?
• 10 Ways Reading this Blog Can Make You $100 This Week
• It’s Deja Vuesday… and it’s Wednesday???
• Off to the annual consignment conference!
• Neutron bomb has fallen.
• Consignment / Resale Braggin’ rights: Google Favorite Place
• The Tyranny of To-Do Lists
• No way you’re gonna read 570 entries…
• Haven’t opened your consignment shop yet? Or maybe you just need more fans?* My best advice.
• Fold ’em, roll ’em, throw a sheet over ’em: Resale & Consignment Shop Tactics
• Tell Kate what to do.
• Being cheap where it counts…against you.
• Is your dance card empty?
• Deja Vuesday: Take a look at how your consignment shop looks to strangers
• How to be better than 90% of your consignment or resale competitors
• BackAgain Bucks, Come Back Coupons, and the like: July’s the Time!
• Filing things at your consignment shop, or featuring for resale?
• The Consignment/ Resale Weekend Warrior
• Here’s a birthday present for you.
• Deja Vuesday: A better way to advertise your season-end sale in your consignment shop
• Inspiration is everywhere!
• What to do with your resale shop clearance sale leftovers.
• Weekend Warrior: Consignment & Resale shop posts can draw more traffic
• Commercials for consignment and resale shops
• What a delicious idea for a consignment / resale shopping event!
• Can you say that in consignment -ese, please?
• So that’s why bait shops are a disgrace to retail.
• “How long you been here?”
• Weekend Warrior
• What do all these stores have in common…and does yours?
• Deja Vuesday: Come shopping with me…
• Consignment and Resale’s Transitional Merchandising
• Weekend Warrior: Improve thyself (or at least thy knowledge base)
• You are more special than you think.
• Deja Vuesday. Geesh, it’s back-to-school time in resale already.
• Drowning in incoming merchandise yet? Life-saving tips from Auntie Kate
• Now here’s Sumthing Unique for consignment/ resale shop photos!
• Nothing whatsoever to do with consignment, resale, thrift shops in any way.
• You got a logo…so use it!
• Your Consignment / Resale Shop Wish List is WAY more important than you think.
• Deja Vuesday: Memo to all Thrift, Resale & Consignment Shops re Success
• Making more money in your consignment shop… or wasting time?
• October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Tags = Sales. Does that make your consignment or resale shop a tag sale?
• The 4 Steps to Freshen Up a Resale Shop.
• Step 2 to Freshen up a Consignment, Thrift, or Resale Shop: Spruce it up.
• Step 3 in Freshening up your Resale, Thrift, Consignment Shop: Liven It Up
• Step 4: Now that your resale shop is freshened up, let’s freshen up the till, shall we?
• A Final Checklist for Consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers who aim to freshen up their shops
• Do you have a problem with “no problem”?
• Everyone’s a winner (or can be) at consignment and resale shops!
• The value of space to consignment shops and all resalers.
• Oh, oh, it’s almost here: Resale’s MOST IMPORTANT Holiday!
• More consignment & resale shop promotional ideas: October is…
• Say they want to bring stuff in. What happens now in your consignment or resale shop?
• TMI?
• Happy Labor Day. Read my consignment labor of love.
• Deja Vuesday: The 4 Rules of Making it BIG in Consignment
• How…and why…to “Favorite” on Twitter
• Are you boring the sox off your potential customers?
• You don’t occupy a lot of their brain
• It’s not too early to plan your holiday promotion.
• Deja Vuesday: What makes a great promotion?
• Why should you care how much your business is worth, if you’re not thinking of selling?
• Pretty Pictures: Getting your name out there.
• How’s Halloween going in your consignment shop?
• Big anniversary coming up for me… and the presents will be for you.
• Consignment Anniversary Celebration. Win a free book!
• My consignment anniversary giveaway: In honor of Martha Stewart
• Kate’s 35th Anniversary Giveaway for consignment & resale shopkeepers: About training staff.
• Consignment / resale/ thrift shop giveaway week: It’s not all about price.
• What’s your stumbling block? A question for all consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers.
• Consignment & Resale winners announced!
• Are not-for-profit thrift shops reaching out to their industry peers?
• Is she a secret blogger…or him over there…or that other one?
• Mind your mummy…Mind your money.
• Offering the sameold sameold to your consignment or resale customers? How about doing it with a twist?
• Happy Breast Cancer Awareness Month, consignment and resale and thrift shops.
• How many tweets do your followers follow?
• Tell them they’re helping, not hurting, the needy!
• The next rung of the retail ladder.
• Enough with the questions, Auntie Kate. Let’s see some answers.
• What can a shopkeeper be for Halloween?
• What’s the difference?
• A picture’s worth a thousand more bucks… in increased sales.
• Deja Vuesday: Consignment & resale…even thrift…stores could attract more teen buyers
• 4 ways to have happy customers
• Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without: The resale shopkeeper’s guide
• Hand me the popcorn…Show me the clothes.
• How can For-Profit Consignment Shops Support Not-for-Profit Thrifts?
• A TGtbT Teeny Tip for Consignment, Resale, Thrift Shops
• Deja Vuesday: 52 Ways to Reduce Stress: From the consignment and resale POV
• One last Halloween entry for consignment and resale shops
• Cardboard makes memorable windows at a resale-friendly price.
• Spelling it out for consignment and resale shops
• ‘Tis the Season
• Perk up your Twitter background. For free. Have fun.
• Over the Top: Doing Consignment and Resale Displays
• Deja Vuesday: How consignment and resale shops can make the holidays special for their clients
• Nobody knows the charities I seen…
• Keeping the holidays bright…in your consignment, resale, or thrift shop.
• A TGtbT Teeny Tip for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops
• Too Good to be Threw The Complete Operations Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops is #57 in the world!
• Deja Vuesday: Consignment, resale, thrift thoughts Too Good to be Threw
• Before and After: Stuff on Furniture
• The Key to Holiday Selling for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops.
• Holiday window displays, Resale Style
• Deja Vuesday: Lay it away?
• Learning from the professionals: Holiday Window Ideas for Consignment and Resale Shops
• Small Business Saturday: Jump on the AmEx bandwagon
• Do’s and don’ts of the consignment and resale holiday shopping experience
• Sophisticated? Childlike? Both in this shop decor.
• Take a ghastly, icky, no-way-Jose sweater. Please.
• Knick-Knack Patty Knack…
• Packaging can make all the difference. Yes, even in consignment and resale.
• A season-long display window for resale, consignment, thrift shops.
• Today’s TGtbT Teeny Tip for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops
• Use your Facebook Photo Album to build business, recognition, WOM about your consignment, resale, thrift shop.
• Top 10 Resale/ Consignment/ Thrift Shop Sites for 2010
• We beg to differ, Maxine!
• What’s the worth of one customer to a consignment or resale shop?
• A TGtbT Teeny Tip for Consignment, Resale, & Thrift Stores:
• More consignment, resale wholesale sources!
• Quick client gifts in case you forgot
• Will your Holiday Giveaway be as Successful?
• “Do you consign? I do, here’s why.”
• Deja Vuesday: How do shoplifters get away with it?
• Creative Consignment, Rad Resale, Knock-em-dead NFP
• Choosing Consignment, Resale, Thrift Resolutions for the New Year
• Deja Vuesday: It’s almost over!
• Holiday Cheer to All of You
• A little gift to you, from you!
• Auntie Santa wishes you a thrifty happy Christmas
• Christmas every day of the year.
• Slaying the Regifting Dragon
• Holiday bustle alive and well in consignment & resale
• Holiday business continues for Resale, Consignment, & Thrift Stores
• Are you lying to yourself about your consignment shop?
• Gathering your consignment & resale tools for 2011
• Resale RoundUp, 2010 edition
• What a LOT of Number Ones!
• Planning your New Year?
• Resortwear: The Fifth Season for Consignment, Resale & Thrift Shops
• Gimme some more FACE….
• A TGtbT Teeny Tip for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops
• 10 Easy Ways to get More Free Time, Resale Version.
• Safety First.
• Snow Day Projects
• New Ideas for your New Year: What If?
• Gloomy grey sleety slushy? Not in consignment, it’s not!
• Is “Get Organized!” part of your NY Resolutions?
• Now that you have a little time…
• Snow day? Go on a Picnik in your consignment, resale, thrift shop!
• Snow-bound audiences…
• Following my Followers: A Twitter Journey
• Retailing is not Rocket Science.
• Better ways to say things.
• Customer Service…the most neglected area of all
• What do they HATE about your consignment, resale, or thrift shop?
• The best things in life…are better when they aren’t free?
• Of poop and magic sparkles: Valentine’s Day for consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers
• Are your pants pocket-free?
• Winter is OVER. I mean, OOO-VER!
• Tell me, what are you doing in your consignment, resale, thrift shop?
• Ah, the lost art of customer service.
• What it’s worth. There…and Here.
• Return policies: Are you ticking off 99.9% of your clientele?
• Happy customers: That’s the goal, right?
• Deja Vuesday: How is your consignment or resale shop special?
• It’s all relative. And nowhere will you learn that better than in a consignment shop.
• Tiny Tweaks Big Results
• Insider Knowledge: Your Hidden Talent
• Do they know you? Making Best Business Buddies.
• Deja Vuesday: Are you out of your mind?
• Hook ’em, Danno! A consignment /resale tip
• Not-for-Profit Thrift Shops: Improving Donations
• Trying something new…in used stuff.
• Where am I again? A shop-name reinforcement…
• Consignment, resale, thrift shop Sundays
• Auntie Kate {hearts} resalers
• Adding another dimension to your consignment or resale shop
• What’s YOUR mood when you’re working your way through your in-box?
• Consigning prom attire: Getting it in
• Will they spend more money if it saves them time?
• You probably already have enough customers
• How to afford a cruise.
• Making consignment, resale, thrift customers feel even MORE special.
• 5 Things your consignor won’t tell you
• 5 Things your NONconsignor won’t tell you
• Be proudful. You’re the best consignment or resale shop around, right?
• Random Acts of Kindness: How they fit into your consignment or resale shop
• Now that the weather’s nicer: Go visiting other resale shops!
• What I learned, visiting other shops, that’s useful for consignment & resale shops
• Has your consignment or resale or thrift shop grown like Topsy?
• If a prune can be a sun-dried plum
• 5 things your consignment customer won’t tell you
• Capturing those Out-of-Towners
• Comp it. Go ahead. It’s worth it.
• Are your showcases boring your shoppers to death?
• So tell me: what would you like to explore about consignment or resale today?
• Earring cards and the Perceived Value of said earrings
• How about a Happy Hour in your consignment or resale shop?
• Selling is a SERIES of ongoing opportunities.
• Who’s your Ideal Consignor…Donor…Seller?
• Social Media for Resale
• The ReEvent: Learning by Surfing
• Today’s Teeny Tip: An immediate media gallery for your shop!
• Oh, those wonderful inspirational consignment and resale shops!
• How to go from AU (Absolutely Unremarkable) to GOLD (Good Original Luxurious Detail.)
• Oh my aching head….
• They aren’t paying attention, Part #2
• “My talent circle”…great concept for ALL resale shopkeepers
• Teeny Tip: Cheapest Tricks & Best Buys for Resale Shops
• Good-enough-to-chomp consignment shop Easter display
• Savvy Auntie… not me, you.
• It’s Spring: Garage & yard sales are waiting to cut into your business.
• What’s more important: tempting their imagination or telling them how much it costs?
• “The messier and more confusing a store looks, the better the deals it projects.”
• Getting Full Value from the Good you do
• SNOOZE ALARM…really really boring ways to say things
• SNOOZE ALARM, Part 2: Tell ’em in a way they really will HEAR.
• SNOOZE ALARM 3: Over-modest, self-limiting… & rodent-infested.
• Why you need store bucks. 10 Reasons. You can think of more, I’m certain.
• What’s wrong with this picture?
• The Mom Contest at your consignment, resale, thrift shop.
• Let your merchandise speak for itself.
• Snooze Alarm: Stop nagging, start enticing.
• Can seasonal sales help consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers? YOU decide.
• Logos I Like: a Gallery of Inspiration for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops.
• Logos I rejected (and why)
• Hidden delights
• OMG Emergency! It’s just a week ’til Prom!
• A new word for the #consignment, resale, thrift industry.
• Form or function? Which works for consignment, resale, thrift shops?
• 5-Minute Fix: Grooming your Shop
• A Poll: How would cheap stuff sell best?
• In honor of Cinco de Mayo, a Spanish lesson for resalers
• 5-Minute Fix: Enlivening your Photos
• Really, is free worth it?
• Happy Mother’s Day
• Consignment & Resale Strategic Planning: The Final Dregs
• 5-Minute Fix: Enlivening your Shop
• How much does a supplier cost?
• “There are no special deals at this time.”
• Find an honest friend, improve your shop
• 5-Minute Fix: Enlarging your Shop
• Wise words from a consignment shopkeeper
• Add value. Get full price. Everyone’s happy.
• The English are SO much cooler about recycling clothes.
• Oscar Wilde as Consignment Consultant.
• Winnie the Pooh as resale shopkeeper.
• Making a “temporary” web site
• If they have something nice to say…
• Ask questions on Facebook to get them involved
• Got your AGD?
• Wise words for your resale business.
• Elie Tahari: “Do it with love.”
• Muffin-top Consignment Agreements.
• 5-Minute Fixes: DIY Newspaper Coverage.
• Find a mentor
• Facebook helps NFPs
• 5-Minute Fix: Fix your Location in their minds
• Help Stamp out Dumb Questions!
• Make an impression.
• Say it in…colorful….words
• What’s goes around… is round.
• Great intro to this consignment shop!
• Is it work or is it play?
• “What’s the name of that shop I love?”
• Gettin’ my stuff done. See you at Conference.
• Saw a great billboard yesterday.
• Dressing rooms: Make a statement in your consignment, resale, thrift shop.
• “What’s the name of that shop I love?” Part 2
• OPEN HOUSE for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers
• Slow in your #consignment, resale, thrift shop?
• So simple. So effective. So perfect for your consignment or resale shop.
• What I didn’t get to say in “The Price is Right… or is it?”
• “5 Fabulous Finds”: What a find!
• Making your postal message greener…
• Happy 4th of July!
• Deja Vuesday: Using your sidewalk to call attention to your shop.
• My new arrival isn’t a boy or a girl.
• Of swarm parties and mayors.
• They’re just discovering these Resale Truths?
• Interesting approach to being a consignment shop. Watcha think?
• Next Best Thing to being there: The Price is Right… or is it?
• It’s like you, only better.
• The kerfuffle that ate my Sunday
• HowToConsign is in Redbook!
• Bringing your Passion for Fashion to life
• Um. You CAN’T?
• Snap tags, QR codes, 2D codes, post-click experiences: say what?
• How would your logo look on your chest?
• Recycling creates resale store fixtures!
• Think you could fit these shoes?
• Build customer loyalty by answering unspoken questions… on Youtube
• Ditch the employee discount, says resale master
• You, too, can be Auntie Kate
• Are your clearance racks chaotic?
• How do you recycle your own stuff?
• How flexible is your shop?
• Sword play in Twitter: Drawing blood
• Nice way to put it….
• Afraid of blogs? Here’s a little tip.
• Talking to your consignors.
• Aw, come on. Help me out here.
• Educate yourself. And your customers.
• I like the sound of that.
• 4 Weeks to Plan a Birthday Party: You can do it!
• Your most memorable resale sale.
• Simple resale display
• Another great photo from a consignment shop
• Cultivating future revenue in your consignment or resale shop
• How leftovers can lure skeptical customers.
• Sometimes, ya gotta hit ’em over the head.
• Have a GROUPON Gathering! The next step.
• And the wheels keep spinning….
• How many resale shopkeepers friends do you have?
• Oh, that just puts me in the mood to buy.
• Agree? Disagree? Explain.
• Give ’em a treat, let them treat their neighbors… and add a certain je ne sais quoi…
• Get it together before the fall rush.
• Does your home page do its job in getting customers in?
• Love this!
• But it’s still summer!
• Is that a real ______________ ?
• Is George winking… or flinching? Balanced budgets in Consignment
• Love this solution… and this resale display!
• Hire right… fire less.
• “I’m Jessi and this is my suitcase.”
• Great way to phrase it.
• Agree? Disagree? Explain.
• “Do you have sales?”
• Who shops better… someone with a 20% coupon, or someone with a friend?
• What, is, truly, customer service?
• Sky Hook. Just what your consignment or resale shop (probably) needs.
• Don’t you sometimes wish…
• Are your staffers your Brand Ambassadors?
• 4 Steps to Approaching a Retail Customer
• Who sez we gotta be straight?
• The one thing to NEVER say to a customer.
• Agree? Disagree? Explain.
• Blogs Useful for Consignment, Resale, & Thrift Shops
• Interesting twist on the NFP thrift/ volunteer conundrum
• Gee, I forgot all about this.
• You got a personality, right? So USE it.
• Changeable logos: Just the thing for consignment & resale!
• Extreme Makeover, Resale Style.
• Golly, this is fun.
• Etsy inspiration for consignment & resale shops
• How your resale shop can use Facebook Places.
• Absolute price? Absolute Rubbish.
• A consignment check photo is worth a thousand words.
• Building your consignment, resale, or thrift shop.
• Is your consignment, resale, or thrift shop AWASH yet?
• Tired of the slow lane in your consignment shop?
• Getting your suppliers to clean out their closets
• Improve your timing & get more WOM
• Puzzled how to make your consignment shop look good, this time of year?
• Inspiration among the Electrons
• Cheapskate. Wear the badge proudly.
• A little levity can’t hurt.
• Are you Supergirl? This time of the consignment year, you better be.
• SHOW it to sell it.
• Don’t make them suffer through one more boring subject line about Halloween
• “Get the job…for less than $100.”
• A weekend’s worth of reading for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers.
• No, no, don’t sell that in your driveway!
• So a woman and her sister walk into a consignment shop…
• Got staff? You need this.
• How to get noticed in your town.
• The absolute, bar-none, way to succeed in resale and consignment.
• How to market a handyman’s delight.
• Does your consignment shop have a hotline?
• Never seen anything like it: A Perfectly Good Reason to Accept It.
• Get a Press Kit together… finally.
• The most over-looked brilliant idea on my blog.
• No such thing as a dumb question.
• Labor Day: Providing for your staff
• Time Lapse Discounts
• A kangaroo hops into your consignment shop…
• Who makes the rules around here…and WHEN?
• Giant images…DO try this at home
• Have you got a one-track mind?
• Wonderful non-profit thrift store find.
• The Internet: It’s free, but do you get FULL VALUE?
• Lagniappe as a word-of-mouth tactic
• A Saturday treat for consignment, resale, and thrift shops.
• Pause. Grieve. Think.
• 5-Minute Fix: Use your email to better your business
• “I wrote the same but in different words”
• 5 Minute Fix: Getting the most out of Facebook
• How would YOU price that?
• Prepping consigned or donated goods… how much do you do?
• Ready to go back to school for the sake of your business? Do it 24/7, free.
• Which would you rather lose: a Guinea Pig or your head?
• STOP stopping!
• 5 Minute Fix: Tweetin’ your little heart out
• 5 Minute Fix: Getting the most out broadcast emails
• 5 Minute Fix: Is your web site doing its job?
• Shout it from the… storefront!
• Some one else’s back room is worse.
• Twitjacked! If it can happen to Buffalo Exchange…
• Are you boring your employees right out the door?
• Is your shop preaching to the choir?
• Facebook complainers sound WAY too familiar to consignment shop owners.
• It’s the first day of fall. You know what that means.
• “We’ve created a new policy”
• It’s September 23: Time for a Blast from the Past!
• Prepping consigned items for the sales floor
• A thought if you are feeling overwhelmed in your shop.
• It’s Time to Ask for NWTs!
• Deja Vuesday: How about a SITEwalk Sale?
• Tired of being a Mystery Man? Or a Man at all?
• Who sez you gotta be straight?
• Anyone have a time-horn?
• Rearranging the sales floor is hard work.
• Missing the once-a-year opportunity to grow your resale biz?
• What the #%$^&^$, snails?
• The joys of consulting
• Lessons from the Internet: Amazon tempts sellers
• Kate concedes, but watch your language.
• Deja Vuesday: “I can’t seem to turn my consignors into shoppers!”
• There go the diamonds, down the drain.
• Are you getting wider?
• Things I’ve told you a thousand times.
• How far we consignment, resale, thrift owners have come.
• Ram Dass on consignment
• Look like the Professional Resaler you are.
• Is your consignment or resale shop lookin’ GOOD?
• Great consignment shop owner, lousy mother?
• Why relying on Facebook alone will kill your business.
• Ooh, ouch. Not the right answer…
• Some inspiring window displays.
• For want of $1.20, a customer’s loyalty was lost.
• What to do with 75 pink bras?
• Consignment clutter can be GOOD.
• Good ways to say things
• You CAN have a GREAT holiday season in your consignment, resale, or thrift shop
• Deja Vuesday: “How long you been here?”
• You’re an expert. Believe me.
• Help; tell about YOUR experiences with Black Friday in consignment, resale, thrift
• Getting action from all that Facebook Time
• Truckloads of wonderful ideas… now all she needs is FOCUS
• Do YOU think outside the box?
• Deja Vuesday: A holiday promo you shouldn’t resist.
• We may be small, but we’re mighty full of promotional ideas!
• Even the smallest shop needs this. Not to mention the largest.
• Be careful what you put out there.
• Fix yer Pix.
• Et voila, the perfect blouse to complete the look.
• Show off your newly-developed communications skills.
• Top 10 Reasons to Shop Local. And to Shop Resale, natch.
• A cartoon only a consignment, resale, or thrift shopkeeper would think funny.
• Did you forget your costume this morning? Shame on you!
• Emergency costume: Thrift stores, right up your alley!
• Deja Vuesday: Can you think a year ahead?
• Methinks thou doth protest too much…
• Dangerous Products: Spread the Word
• Using gift cards in another way in consignment shops…
• HowToConsign.com’s Mailbag
• Ain’t it the truth.
• A blog to better your holiday business
• Is your resale shop setting up hurdles?
• Hard to believe. Not a single resaler is taking advantage of Small Business Saturday?
• Pick the last Picker.
• No ID, no idea
• All my shop wants for Christmas…
• Poetry for consignment, resale and thrift shops
• It’s a Classic.
• Deja Vuesday: “Here’s what’s happening this holiday season”
• Motivating donations… or incoming of any sort!
• Freshening up for the Holiday Season
• Showing Mom and Dad just how much they can save.
• Why I Am Not Opening Your Email This Holiday Season
• Spectacular and Cheap: The BEST Christmas Window This Year!
• Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
• Sometimes, it’s the most obvious thing.
• Deja Vuesday: Still funny, even if (hopefully) a bit less true
• A button a consignment, resale, AND thrift store could love.
• I’ll take one of those wings, please.
• Can you help your clients be charitable?
• Give your customers the GIFT of guilt-free splurging
• Good karma t-shirts: Good for your thrift shop’s cause?
• Prove to me your SHOP shops local before you ask ME to.
• Deja Vuesday: 5 Things Rich Resale Shop Owners Do Differently
• Need a consignment or resale subject line? Think party.
• The best ideas come from friends.
• Are your helpers too comfortable or too fearful?
• Your shop feeling kinda ho-ho’d out?
• Deja Vuesday: Plan now for profits.
• Give ’em a photo op!
• Don’t beg… beguile.
• Start Planning Better
• Keep the kids happy while Mom shops
• An idea to tuck away for next year… or…
• Are the kids driving you crazy yet?
• Crowdsourcing
• Deja Vuesday: What choices will YOU make for your consignment, resale, thrift shop?
• Snuggle up together.
• May your week-after-Christmas be merry & bright.
• A ’54 convertible light blue. A duplex and checks.
• What to buy for your shop at Christmas Clearance
• Deja Vuesday: Buy now, profit from the good will later.
• New use for old entertainment centers
• Clear them out and clean up
• Happy New Year, courtesy Dr. Seuss
• What If… you didn’t bother tweeting for your shop?
• What If… you could jump-start your shop’s 2012 business?
• What If… you fine-tuned your incoming procedures?
• What If… you could get some free publicity?
• A free day coming up: are you ready?
• Profitable New Year to all my consignment, resale & thrift friends
• Can we talk Christmas just one more time?
• Don’t forget your most-neglected potential customers
• Deja Vuesday: Getting (gulp) organized
• Eavesdrop on a consignment experience
• Edit your world
• Your Good Luck Post for Friday the 13th.
• I {heart} Valentine’s Day all year long in consignment & resale!
• Ya know that money ya wanna borrow from your family? Read this first.
• Deja Vuesday: Is your resale shop boring your visitors?
• Have you filled out all your 1099s yet?
• Furniture consignment shop interview video: Your thoughts?
• Have you done your bragging lately?
• Deja Vuesday: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without
• Here’s a great way to use Facebook
• Pushing their WANT button
• Competition: Deal with it
• Bookmark this!
• What consignment, resale, & thrift shops can learn from…. gently-used old newspaper ads.
• Where’s your takeaway window?
• Inspiration from all over
• Got Styrofoam? Be Mine for Valentine’s Day
• A display made to order for consignment, resale and thrifts
• Agree? Disagree? Explain.
• Traffic-stopping window display!
• Retail Feng Shui… or Common Sense?
• Deja Vuesday: Different season, same solution.
• Open Here: Merchandising for Non-profit Thrift Stores
• Sarasota Marché
• Is it spring yet? It can be… in your shop windows!
• Agree? Disagree? Explain.
• Some advice, including mine, on getting good reviews on your shop.
• Kiss a Resaler Today!
• What does your shop specialize in?
• Untapped consignment or donation resource?
• Does the Internet overwhelm you?
• Clever! Camouflage… and focal point.
• Deja Vuesday: When it’s not NICE to be FAIR
• You aren’t letting 24 hours pass you by, are you?
• Spring swagger
• Functional Friday for Consignment, Resale & Thrift Professionals
• Nice rack.
• ODing on consignment, resale, and thrift info.
• 100 Years of Window Displays: What’s in YOURS today?
• Integrity of Price: “At some point, you look desperate.”
• Are most of your customers women? Do they support other women?
• Tips 4 thrift, resale, consignment shops
• Which mannequin for your shop?
• Turn your customers on. It’s good for your business.
• Deja Vuesday: Learning not to smack ’em silly…no matter how much you might want to.
• What has 4 legs and whiskers? And whose name doesn’t start with C-O-P-Y?
• “Darn. She looks better in it than I ever did.”
• That 20% of customers you lose every year: Get them back
• Online Oxfam: NFP with real staying power!
• Promotional Events for your Consignment, Resale, or Thrift Shop
• “Help new customers talk about you”
• Deja Vuesday: Where are your friends when you need ’em?
• We’re from the government. We’re here to help you.
• Kate among the missing…
• Help your competition be better.
• How about a display… wall?
• Deja Vuesday: Standing out in the Sea of Sameness
• Will your business remain green when you part ways?
• There was their first mistake: Why Sizes are So Unreliable!
• You have a right to brag.
• Cash mobs and future coupons…
• And we have a winner on HowToConsign.com!
• You don’t do windows? Or maybe you just HATE doing windows?
• Take me away from all this!
• Functional Friday for Consignment, Resale & Thrift Professionals
• Oops. Is Easter sneaking up on you?
• The Customer Is Always (Convinced That He’s) Right
• Dressing rooms: that’s where you’re making your money. Or not.
• Deja Vuesday: Is your shop a STORE or a STORAGE facility?
• How many business cards do you go through in a day?
• The higher gas goes, the better this promo will be!
• R U a specialized consignment, resale, or thrift shop?
• Just thought I’d share….
• Are you a practicing UPOD resaler?
• Deja Vuesday: Mudflap Moments and a 1968 Volvo.
• Writing Thank-you Notes: You CAN Do It!
• You aren’t making your own resale bad luck are you?
• What consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers thought…
• Husbands & daughters: Getting them in to your consignment shop
• Deja Vuesday: TMI can getcha.
• Adding hand-crafted items to your consignment shop: What they fear.
• “I like it. What is it?”
• Oh no! I lost all my files!
• How many Earths does it take?
• Happy Earth Day. Just in case you forgot.
• Watch as we discover what Pinterest DOESN’T tell you!
• What goes with what?
• Deja Vuesday: Heaving ho? Nah. Use your mouse.
• Adding $6000 to her local economy: and that’s JUST the top 12 consignors!
• 2 Things consignment, resale, & thrifts would rather not see popping up
• Grandma bait & Prostitots. Such is the life of a childrenswear resaler.
• The officially unofficial pre-NARTS Conference get-together
• The Gap: A hot-to-not story of American retailing.
• Trench? Check. Striped T? Yup. A guide for consignment & resale groupies.
• Deja Vuesday: Is your consignment shop investing wisely?
• The fave price of consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers?
• Unclutter your life: 15 things to give up
• A little PINspiration for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers… and a gateway to many more
• Silver Bullets and Miracle Pills
• Zen for Resale Professionals
• Deja Vuesday: Improving your SEO
• RE-inventing jewelry in your thrift, resale, consignment shop.
• Join over 5000 resalers to build your business
• If it weren’t for the mothers of the world…
• Kate’s Mailbag: Finding a unique source to fulfill customer needs
• To blog or not to blog. You’re the experts.
• Word of Mouth… get yourself in her purse!
• The ultimate silliness.
• Building your shop’s props room
• Volunteers: Need ’em? Tell ’em!
• Buy it today, it may not be here tomorrow.
• Deja Vuesday: The Lushness of Life
• What will YOUR customers buy for Father’s Day?
• St. Louis? Really?
• How would YOU use this idea?
• Consignment, resale, vintage, thrift: The New Cool
• Some social media things I always wondered about
• If it’s good enough for a state… maybe it’s good enough for you?
• “Shopping Calendar Gets a School Day” sez NYTimes
• Getting Shoppers to “Stop Buy”
• Kate’s Mailbox: I can’t afford to go to Conference
• jcp: Did they guess wrong?
• “I’d love to start a little shop like this…” : Think of it as a compliment.
• Deja Vuesday: Untold wealth in the foreseeable future
• Plan the BEST Father’s Day gift of all.
• Playing with a Full Deck of Cards
• Not a mosquito. Quite potentially, an alligator.
• 1,234 Posts
• Interesting quote: how would YOU use it?
• The view from St Louis on Resale
• It’s a landslide! Professional Resalers win, every one of them!
• Have you Hawthorned your helpers lately?
• The Realreal. For real?
• Great ways to say things.
• I’m on fire!
• ♥ to spice up your messages with cute little symbols and smilies?
• Creative Customers? Or maybe even you? Great social media ploy…
• 7 mistakes you might be making in your emails
• Deja Vuesday: Time for your seasonal CHANGE!
• Add this to your employer arsenal
• A bit distracted, here….
• Traffic jams and resale chat
• Is your consignment or resale or thrift shop prepared for the end of Facebook?
• Present it to them when they can USE it.
• Love It Again does it again. Complete with corny joke.
• How to arrange bed pillows, choose a dining room rug, and more questions your shoppers ask.
• Give that girl a raise!
• Bus Tour: Let’s start on the outside
• Blogging for Resale Shops
• Be playful… it causes Word of Mouth!
• Deja Vuesday: Don’t just sit there and take it.
• It’s times like this I miss Ohio…
• How do YOUR online deals match up?
• Have you seen my recommendations?
• Or when sounded like A as in neighbor and sleigh.
• Deja Vuesday: Where the Woozle Wasn’t
• Bus Tour: Itty Bitty Spaces and How to Use Them
• Now, HERE’s a resale shop with a personality!
• Seven-year-old newspaper article on consignment, still going strong.
• So how’s your blog progressing?
• It’s beginning to look a lot like…. Back to School.
• A slam-dunk quote for professional resalers.
• Got an empty corner? No more do you.
• Experimenting with making your consignment, resale or thrift shop Internet-proof.
• Sit down once, catch as many of your Facebook folks as you can.
• And the winner is…
• It’s that time of year again…
• Where to find Kate
• “See ourselves as others see us.”
• Let’s go to the Mailbox! How long should my consignment period be?
• Make your shop more memorable
• Using Facebook Albums: A Great Example
• Are you ready for… Back To School?
• Amazing. Lesson to be learned.
• It’s gonna be a fun week or so, consignment, resale, thrift shopping-wise!
• Optimizing your Web Site for Resale Shoppers, Day One: Your Front Door
• Optimizing your Web Site for Resale Shoppers, Day Two: Delving Deeper
• Optimizing your Web Site for Resale Shoppers, Day Three: Are you asking them to do what you want them to do?
• Optimizing your Web Site for Resale Shoppers, Day Four: Check it out.
• Optimizing your consignment or resale shop web site: Spidey Eyes
• “Wait! Don’t get rid of THAT!”
• Website Quiz for Consignment, Resale, Thrift Stores; Is yours doing its job?
• Are negative comments hurting your feelings… and your business?
• Will your consignment shop do well for Back to School?
• 6 Super- Simple Ways to Be a Successful Shopkeeper
• Found: A great Pinterest example for consignment & resale
• If you want my opinion (and you do)…
• Don’t show everyone my private stuff
• Need a night job? Here’s one that’s perfect for you.
• Is adding new merchandise to your resale shop a good idea?
• If you can Facebook, you can blog. And you’d better.
• Splurges Big & Small for Consignment, Resale & Thrift Shops
• Stunned. Really, you DON’T have a web site?
• More potential customers, less cost & work: that’s cross-promoting!
• Deja Vuesday: Use it up, wear it out…
• Who’s looking for your consignment, resale, thrift shop today?
• Oopsy daisy… a consignment faux pas.
• Buying local, even if you aren’t local.
• What do office workers have in common with resale & consignment shops?
• Staffing your Store: Tips to Help You Do it Well
• It’s August 31st. Do you know where your consignment profits are tonight?
• Here’s an idea: Inspire shoppers!
• Does your consignment or resale shop need a dongle?
• Oh, stop bringing me SO MUCH stuff!
• Would you sell, or consign, your items if they only paid in store credit?
• Fear of Networking
• For those Be Back days in your consignment, resale, thrift shop
• How do you get them to say nice things about you?
• Talk about hiding their light under a bushel.
• More on “showcasing” your shop on your web site
• Functional Friday: Where’s my darn cell phone?
• 6 ways to turn a critic into a fan
• Take Facebook seriously. Not to mention your consignment shop.
• Back-to-school time applies to TGtbT Manual too!
• Why we do this. Do your shoppers KNOW?
• The brightest “Kloset” I’ve seen!
• Home decor on consignment: Tropical isles of delight
• Win $100 worth of consignment, resale, thrift help for doing what comes naturally..
• Remind them why they love you
• What $50 will buy you in consignment & resale stores
• Let’s go shopping
• Don’t be a fakey-pants
• Oops! Think before you snap.
• Deja Vuesday: Going all the way.
• Even 20-to-30 year olds don’t like math.
• Social media phenomenon becomes a consignment / resale shop event!
• Don’t put all your eggs into one Facebook basket.
• Beauty in all ages.
• Deja Vuesday: Keeping your business on track
• Take off your clothes here.
• Paint your windows.
• Are you taking the opportunity?
• 10 Minutes to Build your Traffic. In your jammies.
• Things to know: Furniture/ Home Goods Resale
• A clean slate. More on painting your shop display windows.
• The perfect photo for your web site
• Resale Merchandise Presentation.
• Things to know Part 2: Clothing Consignment
• Now we gather all together… for our staff photo.
• Freshly-baked brainstorm for non-profit thrift stores… love it!
• By request: Openback window solution
• Sign your name with a flourish… and a spiel
• Your staff is brilliant. Capture that flash before it fades…
• Deja Vuesday: They aren’t thinking of you.
• “Okay,” she said, dusting off her hands, “Time for…”
• If you’re not following Pinterest…
• Henry Miller on being a consignment shop owner.
• You can learn a lot at Facebook. And then finetune it here.
• Deja Vuesday: Planning for profits 11 months in advance.
• Let’s Get MOVING.
• It’s official. Pinterest outdraws Facebook.
• Shop Local * Small Business Saturday * Support Downtown
• Web-Cleaning Day!
• Tragedy or Travesty?
• Holiday Open House Tips
• You can learn a lot in the dairy case: the evolution of Pillsbury crescent rolls
• Why didn’t I think of this?
• Things they’ll never know about
• Remember: It’s supposed to be FUN not STRESS
• Spend the next 4 days convincing your shoppers.
• Free holiday graphics for your blog, broadcast email, web site
• Goodwill has a very thankful Thanksgiving.
• Banding together: Little Boxes in Portland
• Gift Wrapping the Earth-Friendly Way
• The Imperfect Shopkeeper
• Easy as 1-2-3: Your Holiday Gift Conundrum Solved
• Now here’s a Gift Exchange Idea!
• What every shopkeeper needs before it turns 2013
• Ho ho, I’m off doing the shopping thing…
• Borrow their voice.
• Stalk the designers.
• Staff Gift Exchange Ideas
• Giving away the farm, err, store
• Before & After: Sure-fire WOM
• Are you overworking your elves?
• Deja Vuesday: Making those BIG Price Reductions
• A customer is the gift you give yourself…
• Here’s a week-after-Christmas idea for your consignment shop.
• Shopping resale online… infinite variations
• Report from the Front: Christmas Shopping
• You STILL haven’t come up with a gift for your favorite customers?
• Everything is going to be alright. I promise.
• Stuff that Stocking!
• Deja Vuesday: Stocking up for next year
• Desperation time?
• A picture’s worth a thousand status updates? No.
• Okay, so they want money. Give ’em money. THIS way.
• Okay, make sure you have these supplies laid in:
• Christmas Eve is here, and MUST I do everything myself?
• Get ready for NEXT Christmas today
• A Spanish flair for secondhand
• So nice to know one makes a difference.
• No more shoving racks around or guessing what will fit.
• New Year’s Eve for consignment, resale & thrift shopkeepers
• Happy New Year. Now find a jar. A BIG one, if you’re lucky.
• Preparing to KEEP your consignment shop’s New Year’s Resolution
• Happy Birthday, Ben. Gimme a Franklin.
• Do you LOOK for questions to answer?
• On the 12th Day of Christmas: Don’t pack them away!
• Ever have one of those days?
• How does your consignment or resale shop compare?
• What do you do when you have a too-big armoire and no dressing rooms?
• Dream a little (consignment, resale, thrift) dream with me.
• If you [heart] your customers, show it!
• Photo inspiration for resale shops
• Make Facebook work better for your consignment, resale, or thrift shop
• Slow by you? Why not interview your customers?
• How a Complaint is Something to be Welcomed
• Adding interest… and gaining interest… in your consignment showcases
• Have a heart, times two. Perfect window for your consignment shop.
• Let’s Make a Staff Selling Manual!
• Follow the TGtbT Family on Pinterest? If not, you’re missing a lot.
• Nothing worse than an empty picture frame.
• “Trying to consign clothes is not worth the effort.”
• Facebook can make your face red. Or your customers’.
• Story time for resale shops.
• “Draw a Discount” in your consignment, thrift, resale shop
• One good idea deserves another
• Come in, take a look around, grab some ideas.
• Non-sensible (nonsensical!) resale and consignment statements.
• Go ahead, be a boy scout.
• Love letters: How to get them
• Great shop. Wish I could remember the name.
• Gawd. How embarrassing. I had to leave immediately.
• What money CAN buy you, if not love.
• The best advertising advice I ever got.
• Designer deals, Target, and the consignment biz
• Amen, sister.
• A quote for resale shopkeepers
• Deja Vuesday: Don’t fool yourself in your consignment shop
• Our behaviour is changing content marketing: here’s how
• Is it normal burnout or time for a big change?
• Just my opinion, but don’t you need pricetags?
• Pooping butterflies come Saturday.
• Don’t read today’s post if you love designer bags.
• Got a web site? Does it do its job?
• What’s the new HowToConsign Blog all about?
• Overdosing On Social Networks?
• Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
• 4 Reasons You’ll Fail at Opening a Consignment or Resale Shop.
• Enter the Armoire
• Bribing them to clean their closets on time.
• ‘Tis the season… for seasonal consignment sales
• So what’s to see in your shop?
• Deja Vuesday: How’s your web site lookin’?
• ¿Habla usted español?
• Thomas Jefferson & consignment, resale, thrift shopkeeping
• Got nuttin’ to say? The cure.
• What $50 gets you resale-wise: Time to be re-using a creative idea!
• Getting the New Season’s Goods in, IN Good Time!
• Take a cute idea, and make it cuter
• Smokin’ Mirrors
• Deja Vuesday: Do your shoes smell?
• Love those Facebook Fans? Well, you have to love them BACK.
• Swing Shops highlight your merchandise
• Help your mobile customers read your broadcast emails: 5-Minute Fix
• Signage for your consignment shop that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg
• “Just HOW do I find you on Facebook?”
• The Secrets to Effective Window Displays
• Deja Vuesday: Time for your seasonal CHANGE!
• Say it loud, say it proud: Consignment Shop Sidewalk signage!
• How many hours does your car sit in parking lots? Put it to work!
• I’m guessing this might be a timely article for right now.
• Deja Vuesday: Quality Incoming = better sales.
• Cues to help consignment shoppers buy
• Using hangtags to show value in consignment
• 5 things to do real quick for Earth Day in your consignment, resale, or thrift shop
• Sharon makes name badges for her consignment shop
• A quotation made for resale shopkeepers.
• Out & about in Sarasota
• Who can count the counters… the sales counter, that is.
• 43% of email is now opened on a mobile device
• Thrift shop alert!
• Filthy Lucre: It’s all good.
• Not what you want to see when you come into your consignment shop in the morning
• I can’t believe she said that.
• Must-See Resale TV
• Motivate them on the weekend!
• The most under-used real estate you’re paying for.
• I missed my own anniversary.
• The Down-home Designer Consignment Shop
• Positive thinking, Resale Style
• Mothers and consignment shops and thrift stores.
• Crown yourself Resale Royalty!
• On the Internet no one knows you’re a… resale shopkeeper.
• Yes, you can. You should. Learn to write press releases for your consignment, resale or thrift shop.
• Protect Your Consignment or Resale Shop from Fraud and Cybercrime
• Call attention with place mats!
• Is my blog ready to launch? Is my resale shop ready for fame?
• Many heads make… fun consignment window display ideas!
• What do an Australian dentist and Kate have in common?
• 5 Steps to Making any Meeting Better for your Business
• Windows that WOW don’t happen by accident.
• The exquisite handbags of Judith Leiber
• Out & About Shopping Consignment
• Do you scare them off with clutter?
• The Picker Who Perished, a murder mystery with recipes
• A vital part of your advertising: your email signature.
• When does privacy hurt your consignment shop?
• The ins & outs of press releases for consignment shops (and others)
• Would you believe me if I told you…
• What is this thing called linking?
• Taking away shopper privileges in the nicest possible way.
• Grab the car keys, Thelma! We’re investing in a consignment road trip!
• Slow time in your non-profit thrift? Keeping volunteers happy…
• Back to School Super Saturday: Will your consignment or resale be there?
• International Resale Week is 2 weekends long!
• Being social: does it make you into a Content Thief?
• Dept of Labor declares consignors and volunteers are employees.
• Donation Etiquette: An example to inspire you, from a non-profit thrift
• Recipe #2 from the consignment shop murder mystery
• Come into my back (side, upstairs, other) room, said the consignment shopkeeper
• Yep, I’m the Resale Guru all right.
• Be puzzled no more. A guide to eBay acronyms.
• Start your Facebook Group Page for your consignment or resale shop now!
• I get lots of good news. Which I can’t share.
• Online Consigning
• Another recipe from the Too Good Consignment Shop Murder Mystery
• Seriously, that all you wanna say? That your consignment shop is overpriced?
• Why would a shopkeeper care about a consumer blog?
• People WANT to be helpful. Give them the opportunity.
• Love those Back-to-School, Fall’s-My-Favorite-Season Shoppers!
• Biting the bullet: Really, shopkeeper?
• Do you have a New Arrivals rack in your consignment shop?
• Is your broadcast newsletter doing its job?
• Shop care tips
• Christmas in July: Plan now to profit later
• The world’s shortest, and most potent, sentence. Especially for entrepreneurs.
• A reason to resale shop every Saturday.
• There’s still 37 days of summer left!
• “More than tree”
• Save 5, 7, 9%! We like the sound of that.
• Thrifty Ideas: Especially for NFP Thrift Stores
• Ever felt like this? Me too.
• Changes in Google mail: why you should care, even if you don’t use Gmail
• DIY: Make a “back room” for your resale shoppers
• Got a moment? Get a brainstorm or at least a compliment
• Out & About: Pictures and Sofas
• I made you a sign
• Let THEM dress YOU.
• Community Events: Are you going about them all wrong?
• Want control over your shop’s web site?
• 3 Ways your Customers Rule your Business… or should.
• It’s never too early for Halloween.
• Keeping your cool when there’s fire afoot.
• Out & About: The judicious use of lamps
• Print ads and flyers… lost art?
• Nothing special about my shop, no sirree.
• Can they text to join your e-mail list… right in your consignment shop or on your resale blog?
• Get Socially Productive FAST
• Do I blog, Facebook, or Instagram that?
• How to tell when you NEED a staffer
• Getting all your perks.
• Do your staffers “share”?
• Tell me WHY.
• Facebook Do’s and Don’ts
• Inspiration in desk piles.
• Cheapest advertising ever.
• Back-to-School Time for Consignment, Resale, & Thrift Shopkeepers.
• Deja Vu: Investing your time in consignment goods.
• Is this any way to talk to your friends?
• I’m dreaming of a Green Christmas.
• Some biz advice a resale shopkeeper can REALLY relate to.
• What NOT to Recycle
• Thanking people matters.
• How to write for all your Internet “billboards”
• Only 100 Days! How will your shop do?
• When in doubt, sing the alphabet song
• How good a boss are you?
• When is it important to remind them what shop they are in?
• A formal affair in your consignment or resale shop
• How often to send emails to your shop’s list.
• Acknowledge in public, solve in private.
• Yes-yes’s for your consignment or resale Facebook page.
• Four reasons why they’ll open (or not) your email.
• You don’t get if you don’t ask!
• Giving great customer service when they want what you don’t sell.
• Recycling on a roll….
• What do YOU call your dressing rooms?
• Show your personality!
• Making it tangible
• “Catch ’em doing right”… heck, doing GREAT!
• Designing a logo: Tips from a Logo Designer
• Is your business more Shoptober or Sucktember?
• Cute as a button… and profitable too!
• Are you in it for the long term?
• Graceful copywriting, wonderful career arc.
• Positive reinforcement, Consignment Style.
• Holiday Emailing Easy as 1-2-3
• Let’s throw a party!
• I bet I know what you haven’t had time to do.
• Rolling to resale success…
• One of the challenges Bricks-&-Mortars have…
• Okay, clear the decks for Thanksgiving!
• Let’s kill those overwhelming e-newsletters, shall we?
• Consignors got choices. (As do sellers and donors.)
• Your November consignment or resale window display.
• Got the shopping Jones today?
• Could someone please explain this to me?
• Give a hand to a local charity
• Shop resale for the holidays!
• Cutest, most-local customer holiday gift ever!
• Does YOUR Santa have a workshop?
• Buy your consignment shop a present…
• Start now and end up with a brand-new web site for 2014!
• Last-Minute Black Friday/ Small Business Saturday
• Send Santa mail to her SO
• Quick-start the holidays in your shop.
• You know those corny holiday letters?
• Lights, camera (please Santa)… and consignment/ resale ACTION!
• For me, it’s all about the tree.
• Wasting time?
• 17, or 40, Suggestions for your consignment shop Christmas Wish List
• Your consignment / resale shop is the go-to local resource!
• The tools for consignment & resale success in 2014
• That’s the kind of guy he is.
• 13 Warning Signs that You’re Not Delegating Well
• The January Curse of Successful Resale Shops: Fluffing
• How to arrange stuff so it sells
• The Gentle Art of Conversation: Consignment Version
• How being nice is making you money.
• Give yourself a raise… err, rise!
• Twice, The Consignment Shop Of The Internet, Raises $18.5 Million
• What are you struggling with?
• The Resale Shopkeeper’s Quiz.
• How people find you on line.
• Take a look around your consignment or resale shop RIGHT NOW
• Here’s a thought.
• 5 minutes here, 5 there: pretty soon, you’re talking SIZZLE!
• Selling the piece without sounding like you’re selling it
• Turn used jewelry into Valentine’s gifts!
• Discounting is like a drug.
• Branding: Concrete Examples via Maria Forleo
• Is that graphic you want to use… legal?
• Unsaleables can mean Bigger Profits for Consignment, Resale & Thrift Shops
• Tracking These 6 Metrics Could Boost Your Sales
• Catch their eye with a monotone window display!
• Resalers: Shop your peers for store fixtures
• Finessing the Festival: A Guide for Resale & Consignment Shops
• Fot those consignment shops who limit incoming
• Thinking out of the case! Jewelry displays for consignment, resale & thrift shops
• Twist those words.
• Resale Report
• Turning ODs into a Boutique Must-Have!
• Wouldn’t you love a blogger like this?
• A Visual Dictionary to Consignment
• The Instagram Bazaar.
• Get organized. No bells, no whistles.
• What is style?
• Consignment Shop Display Window: First Day of Spring
• Word images: Appeal to BOTH sides of their brains!
• Clever Consignment Coupon
• You might have missed this
• Earning stars… interesting idea?
• Good thoughts in a jar
• At a loss for what to say in your consignment shop emails?
• Which of these 14 consignment, resale, and thrift topics will make YOU money?
• Help your new store manager succeed
• Are your customers rationally satisfied? Too bad.
• BIG ideas for small-rooms shop layouts
• Make some shelves into MORE shelves
• Killing doorknobs
• Cluster for impact
• Okay, NOW it’s sandal weather.
• What’s the most effective way to advertise your resale shop?
• Shooting a consignment shop video: Here’s a good example
• Should you mark down resale goods at all?
• The single most important thing to have on your web site
• The basics. Or so I thought.
• The resale industry’s most popular pins!
• You’ll get more than you give away free with purchase!
• The dollars per square foot are sky-high!
• Online marketing lingo all Greek to you?
• How many of these 50 ideas can YOUR shop use?
• Holiday closings, or not? The perpetual consignment/ resale shop question
• Really, what more could you possibly want?
• Creative, clever, consignment Pinterest use!
• Dealing with incoming: Preparation H to the rescue!
• Rainy Day People….
• Retail’s Dirty Secret
• Got boobs?
• Having one of those days in your consignment shop?
• Nothing worse than a web site with cobwebs.
• Never settle for less than the perfect…. font.
• Something you might not get at those ‘real’ stores….
• Make your own “quote photo”
• Clear out the best before you clearance the rest
• Using a mobile app to consign
• Happy First Day of Summer!
• For my consignment & resale peers…
• Ask for what you want.
• Aw, that’s so cute! Displaying home goods….
• Holiday weekends for entrepreneurs
• Brilliant Facebook Entries, 4th of July Edition
• What is it worth secondhand?
• How will they know about your clearance sale?
• Beach reading for consignment & resale shopkeepers
• Banding together: The Thrift Stores of Volusia County
• What type of last-ditch clearance sale works best for consignment & resale?
• Caption this photo.
• Happy International Resale Day!
• When you run into a wall… use it!
• You don’t want it. Where does it go?
• Are you in the business?
• Deja Vuesday: The easy way to have a web page. You probably already know how.
• Wait! Check your leftovers!
• Wanna get good at hiring? Here’s 4 ways:
• Consignment with an Educational Twist
• Loving this organizational idea using email!
• It’s hot enough to fry a mummy.
• Pictures are great for social media. Pictures with words? Even better.
• Deja Vuesday: Back to School for Shopkeepers, too
• Did YOU jump out of bed this morning?
• Got your printing press all cranked up to add to your cash?
• Using her (pink-bathing-capped) head.
• Shopper Stoppers
• Keeping current in consignment & resale
• All stressed out?
• Time to massage your jeans pricing?
• “I need something chick and swave.”
• Resale with a Twist
• Deja Vuesday: What to do when.
• A Rose by any other name…?
• Creepy Coupons & Dastardly Discounts
• Learn from the Big Guys
• Got 5 minutes? 115 ways to invest in your consignment or resale shop.
• Good consignment shop advice… from an indie singer/songwriter
• Fleshing out your shop’s e-skeleton.
• Get Them In and Keep Them Coming Back!
• Happy Customer Service Week
• Fashion Hacks for your Staff
• What a waste of a fishbowl.
• Is today the day?
• How could your consignment shop use this idea?
• Perfect, easy, make-it-tonight Halloween costume for consignment or resale shopkeepers
• Did you offer “BOO” Bucks?
• A Grand Opening of a resale shop that’s MORE than just big scissors?
• A timely reminder… and suggestion.
• Should you lend your employee that money?
• 5 Minute Guide to 5 Top Marketing Books
• What does $781 look like in your consignment or resale shop?
• Polish your branding with this simple retail tip
• Used in the News: Unclaimed Baggage
• Resalers Say the Darnedest Things!
• Put an elf to work.
• The perfect holiday gift for your favorite customers
• Naked gift cards.
• How to get the best ROI on your consignment shop’s social media
• The Gift of Gab: You have it, now use it!
• What to give your favorite shopkeeper (even if it’s yourself)
• Create a New Year’s gift to clients that’s a business booster too!
• Hang ’em high, hang ’em low, hang ’em sturdy!
• Superbowl Sunday: Easiest Consignment Shop Promo Ever!
• What’s old is new… again.
• “Sale” signage for your windows
• Think Piece: Authenticity and Story-telling
• Pix worth SO much more than a thousand words….
• Perpetual Diary: For your family, your shop, even your pastimes…
• What will the death of malls do to the resale industry?
• 3 things you can do when there’s no customers.
• Need some inspiration? Listen to your customers!
• Deja Vuesday: The best ways to use Facebook
• Teeny Tip: Advertising Specialty
• Always wanted to start a blog? Learn how, free, starting Monday
• Recycling blog posts
• Fixin’ that furniture right up.
• “Your smile is your logo…”
• Where did they get that lamp? I love that side table: TV stage set envy.
• Your gift swing shop
• Wanna buy a ghost? You will, after you read this.
• Top 12 Tips for Business Owners
• Thought for the Day. It’ll make you smile or ponder.
• Banish Boring Resale Dressing Rooms!
• Presenting: Prom!
• Communicating visually. And fast.
• Love Ghurka handbags?
• Make your windows look like spring!
• Good husband treats.
• 2854 people can’t be wrong. It’s me that is.
• Does your web site get the hits you’d like?
• Brain freeze?
• Welcome Spring with these fresh window display ideas!
• Q & A: Great way to get them thinking! (Or at least, reading…)
• Don’t blow your budget: Free social media pictures
• Let there be light: Make your consignment shop stand out from the crowd.
• A Fisher of Soles
• How to wax rods.
• Take a pitchur why don’t ya?
• Some reading matter for consignment, resale and thrift shops.
• Kudos: Selective Seconds
• How to make good videos and find your on-camera personality
• Let your customers do the work!
• Okay, I admit it. This REALLY ticks me off.
• Fire up your printer!
• Pinterest for your Consignment or Resale Shop
• Consignment online.
• Empty Store? Pish-posh. No such thing!
• Happy Mother’s Day
• Yup, there sure are dumb questions.
• Flabby… fabulous resource even for the non-flabby!
• We consignment & resale shops love to stand out from the Facebook crowd.
• Welcome summer!
• Two versions of a fashion quote: Which suits your shop?
• Put it away… but keep it visible.
• Things that Freak Me Out, Consignment Version
• Hmm, idea… stamping money?
• Stealing ideas from Amazon
• The business card you don’t even need to hand out.
• Celebrating Independence Day
• Help Wanted. Please. Please!
• Promotion: Cute as a Button!
• Is that an echo I hear?
• Improve your photos with a sandwich in your hand.
• I should have posted this on my birthday.
• Is it time to fire that employee?
• Quick Merchandise Photos for your Consignment or Resale Shop.
• Popping in on a consignment shop… and falling asleep.
• The scariest season in resale & consignment
• Consignment & resale promotional ideas are EVERYwhere!
• Every school child needs one
• A customer gift… that lets them help YOU
• Taking full advantage of Pinterest
• Find job applicants with a sense of humor
• Need some customer tips to share?
• Partnering with non-profits. Yes, even if your shop’s an NFP!
• Life’s too short to sell boring shoes.
• Why you’re the last person you should ask
• Holiday Emails Do’s & Don’ts
• Using the news to polish your shop’s rep
• Shop Local Roundup of Ideas
• Holiday Shopping: Make it local
• To be a resaler means that I am proud….
• Functional Friday: Wasting time?
• 1 Hour Holiday Windows for Consignment & Resale Shops
• 1 Hour Black Friday Promotional Ideas
• Have yourselves an Elvish Little Christmas
• Deja Vuesday: What you do BEST
• “We were talking about how the holiday season can be bad in resale…”
• Everyone loves the diversity of consignment shops!
• Reverse logistics. Opportunity for your resale shop?
• Don’t pack away Christmas: 3 Great Ideas to Keep Twinkling Year-round
• Do you RE?
• It’s January. Guess what time it is? SALE time!
• Did you include this cost in your start-up plans?
• Mystery Gift Thursday
• 10 Ways to keep your business as healthy as your HEART!
• Countdown to Clearance
• Resalers {heart} Valentine’s Day
• Swipe File Alert: Make a Recipe Video for your consignment shop
• Q: Is your consignment or resale shop smarter than Gap Inc?
• Another reason you need a web site.
• Leap Day: An Extra Day for Fun & Promotions in your Shop!
• Clever way to sell more… show them what they can DO with it!
• 4 Display Window Basics
• What this place needs is a pop of color….
• Needed: Some Store-Moving Advice
• “People don’t need to go shopping anymore.”
• No more excuses: take GREAT photos on your smartphone
• 5 “oops!” moments in consignment and resale
• The darndest things come in PINK!
• Stop TOUCHING!
• Give them something to take home!
• Green Eileen: Another type of resale shop.
• Make your Shop Instagram-Worthy!
• Everything you wanted to know…
• Closing your shop for Conference?
• Wholesale shopping: Unique, handcrafted goodies
• Guerilla Marketing, Resale Style
• Caution, Danger Ahead
• How to write a headline.
• Kudos: Shopping Mob!
• Kudos: Facebook Notifications
• Intimidated or Inspired? Your choice.
• May your every day be TODAY
• Going to Conference? Here’s a goal to aspire to:
• Hot enough for you?
• How are you rewarding your regulars?
• Can You Clean Closets?
• Back to School: It’s not just for kidswear consignment & resale
• 3 Things to do when there are NO customers in your store.
• In Honor of International Resale Day
• Shut UP, Facebook!
• Go to a flea market this weekend.
• You Can Learn a Lot by Looking: Promoting Gift Cards
• It’s Not as Simple as Marking Down
• URL it, DARN it!
• Bag Sale Jam Ups… and a charitable solution
• Now here’s a Sign that’ll Get ’em Screeching!
• My media message re online furniture resale
• You Can Learn a Lot by Looking: Shade the Sun
• If you can read this, thank a….
• Happy Birthday Coco!
• Snap a snappy shot or two!
• You Can Learn a Lot by Looking: Window Decal
• Need a price-based promotion without losing profits?
• Kudos: Facebook Cover Photos
• Recipe for Shopkeeper Backbone
• Have your own scratch-off fun!
• Deja Vuesday: Hire Right
• Falling for luscious windows
• You know 2 things about me…
• Those pesky skinny mannequins
• Learn A Lot by Looking: Displays & Security
• Soon it’ll be Christmas
• Got low-value goods?
• Which do you need worse: Consignors or shoppers?
• Consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers, hello!
• Learn A Lot By Looking: Eavesdrop for Marketing Copy!
• Is it yours to sell or not?
• Shop Local for the Holidays
• Shopping Small for the Holidays
• Want your shop to POP?
• Learn a Lot By Looking: Or at least, Smile.
• Need Facebook Interaction? Here’s How
• Learn a Lot by Looking: When you’re Out of Stock
• Don’t P*** Them Off
• A social media promo they’ll look forward to!
• Kudos: Get that Season Going FAST!
• How big a shop can I run?
• Obeying the Law that Rules Resale
• Learn a Lot: Swing Shops
• How will they find you? You might be surprised…
• Cheapest Black Friday Promo EVER
• Learn a Lot: Keeping it all together
• Gifting Local: Buy your Shop a Gift or 2…
• The Bag Sale That Isn’t.
• Last-Minute Christmas Marketing
• Learn a Lot: Using Every INCH of space
• Can you lead? Will you?
• Kudos: Carousel Cares
• Banish Burdensome Clutter
• Cheaper than mail, more powerful than Facebook….
• I just adore it when I’m proven right.
• Fill up your New Year Calendar
• Where are your web site hits coming from?
• K.I.S.S.
• It’s Oatmeal Month! and other assorted holidays…
• Make 2017 leave 2016 in the dust!
• Got any plans?
• What’s your purpose?
• Can’t sell coffee tables? Betcha can….
• Learn A Lot: Taking a Second Look
• $10? $20? How much is “being right” worth?
• Slow Day at Work?
• Kudos: Quick Merchandise Shots
• Are your regulars, well, not as regular as you’d like?
• Give your best consignors a PUNCH!
• I want to be your friend….
• Marketing Eggplants
• Learn a Lot: Saying it politely.
• Quick Resaler Tips? Nothing Quicker than….
• Neat and tidy, or full and cluttered?
• Kudos to Goodwill Washington!
• Terrible. Truly.
• Have we really TALKED about Weird & Wonderful?
• Learn a Lot: Backsides count.
• Jewelry Up Close & Personal
• Perfect Reason Not to Open a Resale or Consignment Shop
• They can see you but can they hear you?
• Aw shucks, thanks.
• Learn a Lot: Make your own stock room.
• “Fool” Facebook with a “video”
• April’s a Bouquet of Promo Possibilities!
• Two variations on a (secondhand) theme
• Kudos: Consignment & Resale Video Swipe File
• Portrait of the Owner.
• Testing. 1-2-3 Testing.
• Need a secondhand novel?
• Detailed info on markdowns?
• Cluttering for Close-Ups
• Time to redesign your web site?
• Sweetest Gift for Customers: Candy bars!
• Kudos: Outfit them for an Occasion!
• A risotto recipe for busy shopkeepers.
• Ruining a perfectly good employee
• See how simple? A Kudos post.
• Please, come on in.
• Please, help the underprivileged consignment shops who dwell among us.
• An expanding Market: Plus Sizes
• A Little Advice from a Giant of Retail
• Kudos: They Love to Watch!
• Our MeetUp at NARTS Conference 17
• Your Elevator Speech
• This issue is not going away
• Kudos: Design Challenge
• Getting ready to join your peers and learn?
• Which do you choose: Fighting back, or going OOB?
• Computers? Distraction.
• Grab a Seat on the Resale Bus Tour
• Resale Bus Tour, Part II
• What’s a Swing Shop and why would I need one?
• Resale Bus Tour, Part III
• Those darn jeans
• Aisles vs. Isles: Resale Shop Layout.
• Kate’s Mailbox: Dibs on floor space to established consignors?
• What Do Your Customers Need to be Buying Now?
• Kudos: Bag Sale on FIRE!!
• Selling via live video: Your E-Shopping Spree!
• Shop looking scanty?
• Kudos: Saying Goodbye.
• Tell ’em WHY they should step in….
• Too shy to send out press releases?
• Make your social media pix stand out from the crowd
• It’s a Graphic World Online
• Racks getting full? Go vertical.
• Photo Opps = Social Media Mention!
• Earthy Elegant. An exercise in branding.
• What would Kate do?
• October’s for Beasties… and Bras
• WHAT? Nothing’s happening at your shop?
• Clever, sneaky, effective.
• Such a shame.
• Thanks… a million!
• Learn a Lot: E-snooping
• Shoot your Customers
• Customer here, customer there, everywhere a potential customer!
• A web site is a gift you give yourself
• Taking the next social media step
• “Shop with Google open on your phone.”
• Don’t miss a trick.
• What’s another word for “you gotta be kidding”?
• Learn a Lot: New Arrivals Rack Signage
• Kudos: La Casa Fina, Santa Fe NM
• Don’t be a Facebook Live Video DropOut!
• Hurry! Pumpkin Spice Almost Gone!
• Holiday Gift Ideas for your Consignment or Resale Shop
• Learn-a-lot: Clever home goods shop ideas
• Splurge a little. . . You’re worth it!
• Is the problem cheap customers?
• Help the Kids Learn the Gift of Giving
• Flippin’ out over Being Backwards?
• Set the Scene for Social Sharing
• Make it for your shop: Make It Merry!
• Do they get your Facebook Group notifications?
• Underdog Tactics for Black Friday
• 5 Consignment Hacks
• Last-Minute Holiday Event
• Is your brain holiday’d out?
• What ARE they thinking?
• No more Christmas.
• Gorgeous Gifts and Goodies
• The economics of providing deals
• 5 Things to Do this Week to Make Christmas MERRY!
• Didn’t get what you really wanted?
• Time to get it all together?
• Where do they find you?
• Tax Time! How much did you pay PayPal?
• Dipping your toe in. (See what I did there?)
• The Cure for Cabin Fever is Within Your Power
• Teeny Tip: Making your Facebook Videos Better
• Building, or polishing, your website. Step by step.
• #hashtagtheheckoutofit
• Gimmee caps. For consignment and resale shops.
• Simple, stunning… and tasty Valentine’s Day contest!
• Cutting up for an audience!
• How long should your email be?
• Are your pictures silent?
• It’s not enough to say #shoplocal.
• Brand your photos in one easy step.
• You don’t gotta be an Einstein
• Bet YOU have some great advocates too!
• Kudos: Your Local Resale Shops Brochure
• Another opportunity to tell your story!
• Vernalagnia: Make them come down with it.
• Look what I made!
• Silly Kate
• Get More Comments by asking their opinion!
• Tools to help your staff help your business
• Getting into their closets
• Read your way to Smart Fashion
• Repurpose the Proven
• Out and About: I’m a WINNER!
• Mailbox: Coupons to Strangers?
• Your flier in every mailbox?
• Deja Vuesday: Did you forget to plan for Earth Day?
• “Kate’s Virtual Mailbox: “How long you been here?”
• Do you work here?
• Is your shop worth the trip?
• Customer Complaints are GOOD
• Email Tactics Especially for Consignment & Resale Shops
• Staying on the Road to Success
• How many of your customers have mothers?
• When to Start Planning your Event?
• Make your location MEMORABLE, 12 months of the year.
• Gibberish. Ain’t nothin’ will get you tuned out faster.
• Dependable, self-motivated, and sloppy.
• Keeping motivated: 10 Minutes with Kate
• Small panes are a pain!
• Do what you do so well…
• How to take notes
• How to Say NO. NO. NO. Heck N-O.
• How much does it cost to accept an item?
• Dressing room lighting: What will sell
• Inspired by Facebook: Interaction!
• Kinda sorta recipe for Smokehouse Spaghetti
• Kudos: Furnishings Fotos
• Keep on dancin’, dancin’….
• Kudos: Simply Irresistible!
• Kudos: Spreading your Name
• Kudos: EZ Furniture Consign
• You are now entering the NEED Season
• Talk about a POP of Color!
• Expand their horizons
• Celebration Station: One More Way to Beat Online Shopping
• Kate’s Mailbag: New shop advertising
• Hodge Podge? Nope, Prizes!
• I hope you’re an amateur in the resale world.
• How resaling is like painting
• Motivate ’em to MOVE
• Your task: Go shopping
• Shaking it up: Facebook Live Videos
• Signage that works!
• Kudos: Make me crave your online resale merchandise!
• Kudos: Implying community acceptance
• What’s the plural of Kudos?
• Kate’s 1-on-1 Advice: A Mannequin Contest!
• What else can I show?
• Halloween? Can make a resale shopkeeper a millionaire!
• Uncover their fear… and make it go away
• “I’m just gonna wait for some people to hop on…”
• E-interviews: Live video, pictorial post, blog write-up
• Stylin’ and Smilin’: FB Live Video
• Deja Vuesday: Getting them to follow you MORE.
• For a wicked-good time: A Witches’ Ball promo for resale!
• Send them on a Treasure Hunt!
• Facebook check ins: Do they?
• Facebook Faceoff: What Wins?
• Kudos to Attic Fanatic Consignment!
• How to Sell More Home Decor
• Counting Down to Christmas
• Christmas Display Windows for Resale Shops: Part 1
• Christmas Display Windows for Resale Shops: Part 2
• « Christmas Display Windows for Resale Shops: Part 3
• Shopping Resale for Christmas: The More the Merrier
• Christmas Promo for Consignment & Resale: St. Nick!
• It’s beginning to look a lot like…
• The Great Gift Unboxing
• 5 Last-Minute Holiday Checkup List for Resale Shops
• After-Christmas Bonanza for Resale!
• Started off on the wrong foot?
• Incoming, 45 weeks before you need it.
• Simple Questions for Facebook
• What if “not enough customers” isn’t the problem?
• A cozy promotion for resale shops!
• Deja Vuesday: No one reads anymore.
• Deja Vuesday: Making your shop worth a visit
• Tell me what you sell.
• Misleading signs cost your business income
• 8 Tips to Make Networking WORK
• How to gain over 4000 Closed Facebook Group members in 11 months.
• Quiet Day in your Resale Shop?
• What better symbol for resale… than a St. Patrick’s pot of gold?
• “I’m the boss. How come they don’t treat me like I am?”
• Celebrate the end (?) of winter in your consignment shop
• Kudos: An NFP resale shop tag line
• How to get interaction on social media: Ask a simple question!
• Taking a little something from “that poor consignor”.
• 3+3+3 = 9 Ways to Plot your Resale/ Consignment Shop Success
• Take a look at your sales floor.
• Resale store layout don’t’s
• Local Festival? Get your shop name out!
• A consignment problem that’s good, but still a problem
• What Should My Resale Shop Post on Social Media?
• How much are they willing to spend in your resale shop?
• Kudos: A reason to get social in this resale shop’s Facebook posts!
• Put some MUSCLE into your resale shop!
• Snooty Suppliers & How to Get Them
• Checklist for resale and consignment social media.
• What problems do resale shops solve?
• Good Introductions Make Good Networking
• Going to Conference? What to Pack
• Get the most out of any meeting
• What will I WEAR for Conference?
• Desire, Determination, Diligence, Dollars
• The Mini-Billboard in your Pocket
• What your resale customers want to know.
• Where are all the volunteers?
• Take Five: 6 Ways to Improve your Resale Shop in 5 Minutes
• What’s up with resellers?
• Height matters.
• They need this? Suggest that.
• Celebrate your consignment (or resale or thrift!) anniversary
• ICYMI: A Consignment Shop Secret Weapon
• Is being stingy costing your resale shop money?
• Don’t Force Them to Sit There
• They’ll never do it like you do it.
• ICYMI: Make your Website Work At Least as Hard as You Do
• What to do with a losing lottery ticket.
• YOU ARE HERE.
• Will a blog help my shop? In a word: of course. (Yup, that’s 2 words.)
• Better Email Results for Resale Shops
• Last box of the TGtbT Manual
• Hail and farewell.