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Creative Customers? Or maybe even you? Great social media ploy…
Remember my post about making cute little “treasures” jars of bits-n-pieces you accumulate around your consignment, resale, or thrift shop? Lot of viewers loved this idea but wrote to me saying they...
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How to arrange bed pillows, choose a dining room rug, and more questions your...
There’s a blogger who’s gathered what seems to be the ultimate treasury of resource materials for any consignment, resale, or thrift shop which deals in home furnishings, for any shop which has...
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Be playful… it causes Word of Mouth!
I went out this morning to mail my TGtbT.com orders, and encountered this lovely miss playing on the hopscotch game painted at Children’s World. What a great idea, and for the cost of paint… Word of...
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“Wait! Don’t get rid of THAT!”
Before you bag up all your unsold summer clearance items, click to take a look at this PDF that HowToConsign.com offers consumers. Maybe it’ll give you some ideas on what to SAVE from your final...
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Opening a new business with a BANG!
So many new resale shops open their doors, and just…. sit there. But here’s a group which wants to start off with a bang. If you’re looking to get your new store, or your new additional location, or...
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Why we do this. Do your shoppers KNOW?
It’s obvious to you, the NFP resale shopkeeper, manager, and staff. It should be obvious to your customers and donors as well. I mean, it says “Serving those in need” or “Exodus House” on your signs,...
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Thrifts: Are you making full use of donated electronics?
Whether you are a non-profit donations-only shop, or simply a resaler of any description that would like to help your clients recycle old electronics in a conservation- and charitable-sensitive way,...
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The perfect photo for your web site
This snapshot by a newspaper reporter is the ideal photo for any resale, consignment or thrift shop. In this case, it’s NFP thrift shop founder Janet Hamilton accepting a donation for Journey Home, her...
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Freshly-baked brainstorm for non-profit thrift stores… love it!
I saw this amusing photo on Facebook yesterday, and it made me think… Oh wow! A typo that would make perfect sense in a NFP donate-only thrift shop with a re-purposed display case Make some “fake food”...
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Countdown to Christmas!
Lots of fun ways to build anticipation to Christmas in your consignment, resale, thrift shop… and more for your family! Advent calendars have given way to Countdown to Christmas ideas. Here are some...
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A customer is the gift you give yourself…
Chances are, there are a few customers, consignors, supplies, donors or volunteers whose very presence in your business life you are truly grateful for. I hope you have dozens. The only way to really...
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You STILL haven’t come up with a gift for your favorite customers?
I know, I know… you want to give them something unique but inexpensive enough that you can hand out dozens. But what will everyone like? Think cute? Talk about and show their friends? And here it is,...
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Get ready for NEXT Christmas today
Just like we suggest to consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers that they motivate suppliers to clear their closets of Halloween costumes every November, this week is the ideal time to stock up on...
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New Year’s Eve for consignment, resale & thrift shopkeepers
A thought for all shopkeepers, not just those who have resale or consignment shops. One thing that I love about being in retail is that our feedback is often instantaneous, and totally controlled by...
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Love letters: How to get them
Well, ’tis the season of love… hearts and flowers everywhere, love is all around and so on! Why not make marketing use of Valentine’s Day… by asking your clientele to write a love letter to your...
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Deja Vuesday: Quality Incoming = better sales.
Deja Vuesday where you can visit a gently-used, blog post in case you missed it the first time. It’s even better the second time around. Are you targeting your marketing efforts properly? Quality,...
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Thrift shop alert!
What’s one category many donation- only thrift stores accumulate too many of? Odd plates. And what can a customer do with odd plates? Well, a perennially popular idea is the wall of plates, as seen in...
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Not what you want to see when you come into your consignment shop in the morning
Bless their hearts. Thank goodness, no one was in the shop. Read the story. Filed under: Shopkeeping talk, Used Stuff in the News Tagged: resale shopkeeping, Thrift
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Slow time in your non-profit thrift? Keeping volunteers happy…
If you run a thrift store, and your volunteers complain that there’s nothing to do today…. Or if you have folks who’d like to help your shop succeed, but don’t wish to have a sales-floor assignment… Or...
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Thrifty Ideas: Especially for NFP Thrift Stores
If you manage, direct, work or simply volunteer in a non-profit donations-only thrift shop, chances are you have some challenges consignment or buy-outright shops don’t have. The biggest one could be...
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