If you were ever enamored of your local theater’s props room, you know what I’m thinking: YOU NEED PROPS! Bits and pieces you can use to “dress the stage”… and of course, your consignment, resale, or thrift shop is a stage where you perform every day! Now normally, I would tell you
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Building your shop’s props room
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, merchandising, small business on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
RE-inventing jewelry in your thrift, resale, consignment shop.
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, buy-outright, Thrift on May 10, 2012 | 4 Comments »
If you buy gently-used costume jewelry outright from your suppliers, include in the batch offer, and also save, ALL bits and pieces. You can
A little PINspiration for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers… and a gateway to many more
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, Pinterest on May 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
An inspiring photo for your shop.
Just thought I’d share….
Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, merchandising, sea of sameness on April 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Cute idea I saw yesterday in a consignment shop.
Teeny Tip: Cheapest Tricks & Best Buys for Resale Shops
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Teeny Tips, tagged accessories, display on April 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A TGtbT.com Teeny Tip: An excerpt from Resale’s Cheapest Tricks & Best Buys, one of the mini-Products for the Professional Resaler at Too Good to be Threw. See all the “Lunch with Kate” Products. Here’s a $10-and-under spiff up for your shop. What better time than spring to make a few “Cheapest Tricks & Best [...]
Before and After: Stuff on Furniture
Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, home decor, merchandising on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s all too tempting, when a consignment, resale, thrift shop deals in home goods, to use the for-sale furniture as a handy surface on which to plop things. And thus do no favors to
Are you boring the sox off your potential customers?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, advertising, blogging, merchandising, web on September 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Consignment, resale and thrift shops have ever-changing selection, and that’s a strong selling point visually, in the photos we use on our web sites and blogs. Alas, sometimes though, when we’re taking photos of our shop, we bore the sox off our customers. Just taking a quick shot
Filing things at your consignment shop, or featuring for resale?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, display, home decor on July 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Here’s what I mean by filing: It’s neat. But are you really tempted by any of these items? You want your shoppers to
Thinking Outside the Box Part 2: Showcase Risers
Posted in My Favorite Things, Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, display, home decor on June 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
One cake stand makes a nice showcase riser. A multi-tiered one works 3 times as hard. (Just
Does your consignment shop support the counterfeit trade? Your resale shop rip off copyright holders?
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged accepting, accessories, competition on May 2, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Uneasy when a consignor comes in with a pillowcase full of Prada and Louis Vuitton bags? Real designer or “designer-inspired”? Unsure if you should take that seller’s Coach? Real or “replica”? That Gucci generate some anxiety? Genuine or gyp? Counterfeit goods, from Guccis to Nikes to Rolexes, continue to pour into our country from China. [...]
Can’t consign it? Can’t sell it? Maybe you should BUY it from them.
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, display, home decor on April 10, 2010 | 7 Comments »
You’re offered tons of stuff, especially now with spring-cleaning season upon us, that you just don’t have a customer for in your shop, right? Oh. Wait. Maybe YOU should buy it. Here’s some things that could be very
Make your own jewelry cards for your consignment / resale shop
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, merchandising, perceived value, profit on January 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Beckie and Debbie of My Sister’s Closet prepared this great page for their consignment and resale peers at Sharing a while back. Perhaps you read it then. It’s worth an “Encore”, especially now when you may have the time to catch your breath and think about ways to make your shop more polished… and to [...]
Thinking outside the Box: Your Jewelry Showcase
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, display, sea of sameness on January 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The delight of consignment and resale jewelry is also its curse. After all, folks are shopping your place because they want something different. But that very variety can make it really hard to create an under-glass display that
7 Ways to Makeover Your Old Shoes For Fall
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged accessories, blogging, Twitter on October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Awesome ideas,perfect topic to send out to your consignment or resale clientele via your site, your blog, a broadcast email*. Link your audience directly to
Real or fake designer bag? It can be hard to tell.
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged accepting, accessories on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some advice to help avoid the fake designer handbag business (that goes beyond the ever-popular and exclusionary “buy in a real store”): Videos:
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