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
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:
- 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.
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 