Twitter for Resale & Consignment Shopkeepers

I mentioned on Sharing that one should not fall headlong into Twittering without learning how to dip a toe in first. Well seems like that topic’s a hit with my readers, because they all want to know, now, without

In between Conference workshops…

Wow, is all I can say…I miss those of you who couldn’t attend, LOVE seeing those of who who could, meeting faces to go with names… and finding new faces!

Great folks…I had a ball at my workshop and could have talked another hour if they’d let me. So much to tell you… when I get back to Sarasota, I’ll post the overhead graphics from my workshop and try to get an annotated version of my handout up.

Oh yeh? NARTS Conference 2010?

Palm Beach FL… and the Ritz Carleton!!!

Sunshine Girls (and Guys) at Sunset

Gathering “in the hotel lobby bar” became a sunset gathering on tne spacious and beautiful lawn to watch the sunset over the mountains (well, okay, so we were facing east

Duck & Hummingbird for breakfast…

and bunny rabbit for lunch.

Yes, indeedy do. The duck was

Exceedingly Handy and Profit-Building Favorite Thing

I ran across these TakeOne Business Card Holders at Paperdirect.com and figured they were neat, attractive, inexpensive (about $1 apiece with shipping)…and could lead to all sorts of imaginative uses.

Use these in every dressing room, on the local grocery’s bulletin board (with personal

HowToConsign on a ROLL….

Is this cool or what? #1 on Google Alerts too!

This Auntie Kate blog entry from yesterday about HTC made top billing in Google Blog Alerts… and of course, you know that AuntieKate the Blog has an extensive list of Shop Blogs from our Treasured Sponsors (see lower right of this page!)

How To Consign #1 on Google, now #1 on Bing too!

We’re so proud we’re bustin’ our buttons!

HowToConsign, the consumer-oriented consignment, resale, and thrift site for consumers (Motto for them: Turn your Cluttered Closets into Cash; motto for us shopkeepers: Finding your future customers for you!) has been #1 on Google since it began in Spring 2007.

Now HowToConsign.com is #1 on Bing too… even BEFORE yelp, which is quite a feat. (Why it’s named that, when it isn’t just about consignment.)

Hope all you Sponsors are as proud as I am. And I hope your $1 or $2 a week Sponsorship is a good marketing investment for you!

Tip o’ the hat to Linda of Consignment Pal who sent this on to me.

Conference Contest! Tell It in TEN

As those of us who are lucky enough to go to NARTS Conference get ready to go, I can’t help but try to figure a way to “bring it on home” to resalers who can’t attend this year.

Tell it in TEN: Can we get

What to Pack for Scottsdale Conference

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Standing in your skivvies in front of your closet, wondering what to pack for NARTS Conference? Me too.

From

Shopping Resale: Is it perfectly natural in your town?

On Sharing today, some consignment and resale store owners were discussing what happens when new competition comes into your marketplace. In this particular discussion, large thrift stores were the newcomers, but really, any competition, from the designer consignment boutique to the junk-shop variety, can cast a pall upon your attitude and your

Ephemeral email, tangible postcards

brief, episodic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, short, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory, unenduring, volatile

As much as we love email to our consignment, resale, thrift customers, email is ephemeral and all of the above. Great for instant

Shop of the Week #7 in a Web 2.0 format!

Animoto is a fun place to make mini-videos out of still photos for your business.. to help Promote with Pizzazz, as it were. Here’s one I did a week or two ago as I was inundated with details on my new Products for the Professional Resaler, entitled Busy busy busy!

I like this program so much, I think I’ll subscribe to the professional version, where you can do so much more. Maybe I’ll make one

Writing for a resale audience

I just realized it’s exactly 2 weeks before I have the honor and the privilege of presenting a workshop at NARTS Conference to my consignment, resale, and thrift peers.

The workshop’s titled Be OPEN: The ABC Guide to Success and the description I wrote is “It’s easy as ABC to make

Your customer’s secret passion: SURPRISE me!

Word-of-mouth and its oh-so-up-to-date cousin, “viral marketing”, rely upon

your business doing something that is worthy of

Resale/ Consignment Shop of the Week #6: Are YOU the winner?

Update: We have a winner…in less than 24 hours!

Lori Siegharter & Rosemary Gorski, owners of Kidz Closet in Weston, WI, spotted their photo here on Sharing and have been awarded their $49 gift certificate good for anything they’d like from our Products for the Professional Resaler or to extend their sponsorship at HowToConsign.com.

I’ve asked Lori and Rosemary to forward an exterior shot of their shop and hope they have time to do so so we can see it. (BTW, if you’re wanting to take a shot of your shop, see this page on TGtbT.com)

Spot your resale or consignment or thrift shop here and win a $49 gift certificate!

Just email me “It’s MY shop!” and choose whatever TG Product(s) you like (including a Sponsorship at HowToConsign.com) with your $49 gift certificate!

Check here weekly and contact me within 3 days of the posting of the picture. So if you happen to see a friend’s shop tell her/him to come to the blog to claim the week’s prize! Past shops*

This week’s shop doesn’t have a store-front photo on their site (naughty naughty) but I cannot resist showing you