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:
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:
- 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.