Adding hand-crafted items to your consignment shop: What they fear.

For all you consignment shop owners who would love to explore showcasing local crafts and artists in your shop, here’s

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Start Planning Better

I like the 3 Ways to Start Planning Better for your Business ideas from a blogger on the SBA site. Especially

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Using gift cards in another way in consignment shops…

I saw this on a web site the other day and thought What a brilliant idea! Store your consignors’ value on their gift cards, which they can use anytime and call it “Purchase Credit” or they can cash it in of course. Allow your consignors to look up, online, how much their gift card’s worth [...]

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Lessons from the Internet: Amazon tempts sellers

As far as Amazon goes, I’m a consignor. And they’d like to see

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Who’s your Ideal Consignor…Donor…Seller?

Who’s your Ideal Consignor…Donor…Seller? And how

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5 Things your NONconsignor won’t tell you

Yesterday, we discussed (well, I discussed…have you added your thoughts there yet?) 5 things your consignor won’t tell you. Now, 5 things your NON-consignor won’t tell you. Ever wonder why

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5 Things your consignor won’t tell you

Ever wonder what your consignor’s not telling you? And for consignor, read seller or donor if you’re not a consignment shop. Yes, even those receiving cash on the barrel head, or donating to your nonprofit thrift shop, have unspoken concerns. We’re not mind-readers. When you tell us

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It’s all relative. And nowhere will you learn that better than in a consignment shop.

I had a consignor whose husband owned a local, large, and public company. One day, this woman consigned a NWT item she’d bought mere weeks earlier for $1300. She couldn’t be bothered, she implied, to return it to the luxury merchant where she’d bought it, so she’d just let me sell it…for whatever. I was [...]

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“Do you consign? I do, here’s why.”

Great little blog entry from a consignor’s point of view. <Click to see what she has to say. I love “eavesdropping” on our audience like this, don’t you? And she mentions something that really got me thinking. This

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Deja Vuesday: Consignment & resale…even thrift…stores could attract more teen buyers

Now that most college and university towns are full up again with students… . …and high-school students have sorted out what they want to wear this semester… . is it time you

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Wacky Wednesday Giveaway: Kissin’ the Blarney Stone

3-22-10: Update: there will be no winner this week of the Wacky Wednesday Giveaway because the minimum participation was not reached. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! And it’s Wacky Wednesday too…how lucky can we get?? Wacky Weds is our free Giveaway for consignment, resale, and thrift shop owners/ managers. This week’s question for consignment and resale [...]

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Is it easy to be a consignor or supplier in your shop?

How hard is it to bring merchandise into your shop, for the client who’s cleaning closets, clearing cupboards, coaxing calmness out of the chaos of the basement or attic? Since spring cleaning season is fast upon us, it behooves you to re-examine your procedures. Make it easy by: Not making it hard to time their [...]

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Reporter inspires…a resale advertising approach

It pays to read closely everything reporters write in a newspaper article, bloggers blather on about, even what you might overhear at the grocery or a party. Here’s one that inspired me: Shoppers who’d be embarrassed to be seen in a resale store should take a look. This reporter was genuinely

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Wacky Wednesday: How are you BROADENING your customer appeal?

It’s Wacky Wednesday again! All you have to do to be entered into our random drawing is add your helpful comment to this post. What’s your thought, your idea, your angle on today’s topic? Today’s topic: Broadening your Shop’s Appeal One out of ten consumers shops resale.  That’s right: you could double your sales if [...]

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OMG: Turning suppliers OFF

Today’s post for consignment and resale shop owners was going to be about now being a good time to make consignor agreement changes. But reality intervened. I went looking  and found some agreements that made me cringe. Wording that shows that the writer forgot the REASON for putting her/his info on the web: to entice [...]

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