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Back to School Super Saturday: Will your consignment or resale be there?

Are you ready for another “national shopping holiday”? According to the New York Times,

Teen Vogue magazine, published by the Condé Nast division of Advance Publications, sought last year to make back-to-school even bigger with an elaborate promotion

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 if you know there are some folks who’d help, but they’re not up to standing on their feet for hours…

Here’s a treasure-trove of cute ideas for turning bits and pieces into adorable, salable, and

Grab the car keys, Thelma! We’re investing in a consignment road trip!

Recently, I read this Facebook comment. A consignment shop owner was replying to another who was flying cross-country to visit the area and wanted to know “if there are any good shops to visit” in the

Taking away shopper privileges in the nicest possible way.

What happens when you have to take a privilege away from your shoppers?

How can you turn what will be perceived as a negative, into a positive?

Here’s how one business did it wrong. In a

What is this thing called linking?

When a stranger looks for your business in a search engine, will they find you? Or will the first results be those of your competition?

How search engines decide who goes first is complicated (not to mention, in many ways, “secret”) and involves knowing a heck of a lot more than you as a shopkeeper care to learn. But there’s a simple, 5-minute way to help search engines find your web site.

Is there an easy, non-geeky way to improve your search-engine ranking?

Would you believe me if I told you…

One of the biggest changes in how people shop is the Internet. But maybe not the way you think.

Sure, you can comparison shop all over the world, you can see what’s available in far-flung markets, and you can even find a bricks-&-mortar shop that’s to your liking, but the biggest change that all our inter-connectivity has wrought?

Opinions. Reviews. Actual people talking about some place you’re interested in.

I mean, seriously, wouldn’t you

The ins & outs of press releases for consignment shops (and others)

Does your consignment, resale, thrift shop search for opportunities to get editorial coverage, not only in your local paper and TV and radio, but also in local blogs or local online news carriers?

Does the very thought of