Can you think a year ahead? If so, you’ll
Posts Tagged ‘Halloween’
Deja Vuesday: Can you think a year ahead?
Posted in Deja Vuesday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged Halloween, home decor, selling on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case you don’t have enough Trick-or-Treaters at the door…
Posted in My Favorite Things, Slices of (my) life, tagged Halloween on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case you don’t have enough Trick-or-Treaters at the door…(bright side: more mini-Hershey bars for YOU)….enjoy this (literal!) parade of merry-makers and amazing costumes!
Emergency costume: Thrift stores, right up your alley!
Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, tagged Halloween, holidays, Thrift on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This story of mine is a couple of years old, but still might work for you today!
Did you forget your costume this morning? Shame on you!
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, tagged Halloween on October 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Luckily, forgetting your Halloween costume when you’re a consignment, resale, or thrift shop owner/manager is not a major deal.
Is your consignment or resale shop lookin’ GOOD?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged display, Halloween, holidays on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Have you added fall decorations to your consignment, thrift, or resale shop? Or to your windows (I saw
Missing the once-a-year opportunity to grow your resale biz?
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged Halloween on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After a shopping trip to consignment, resale, and thrift shops last week, I posted this on FB. I had all I could do to resist
Don’t make them suffer through one more boring subject line about Halloween
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged Halloween, sea of sameness on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If I see one more “Now accepting Halloween Costumes & Decor” subject line from a shop I’m gonna SCREAM. Talk about snooze-ville. Now, assuming your shop
How leftovers can lure skeptical customers.
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged Halloween on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
You’re sick-and-tired of looking at it. Your customers didn’t want it. Not even when you reduced it to the max. You’re highly tempted to
One last Halloween entry for consignment and resale shops
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged Halloween on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I hope you’ve been convinced that Halloween is the most important free boost to your business possible. Lord knows I’ve been rattlin’ my bones about it to you. So I am going to
What can a shopkeeper be for Halloween?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignment, Halloween, Thrift on October 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s fun to plan a Halloween costume, but what can you work in all day long as a shopkeeper? You’ll be uncomfortable in that
How’s Halloween going in your consignment shop?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged Halloween on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A cartoon only we resale industry folk would get.
Oh, oh, it’s almost here: Resale’s MOST IMPORTANT Holiday!
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged Halloween, promotions on September 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Only 60 days to Hallowe’en! I can hardly wait. Now, we’re all aware of how the adult costume market is growing and growing, and how Hallowe’en’s not just for kids anymore, and that there are profits to be made. But have you really stopped to think about how important this holiday is to consignment, resale [...]
Fold ‘em, roll ‘em, throw a sheet over ‘em: Resale & Consignment Shop Tactics
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged christmas, Halloween, profit on July 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Okay, before you have your final summer clearance, before the bag sale or the dollar rack or the BOGO just-get-it-outta-my-sight sale: Pull your pakaways. They’ll do more for your business at a later date than they will right now. What am I saying? Take stuff that
How many costumes have you received this week?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged buy-outright, Halloween, success on November 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Did you let your consignors*, your sellers, or your donors know that you want those Halloween costumes now? No? Then do it forthwith! (That means make it snappy!) Why? Because, yes, you can make money from costumes of all sorts the whole year ’round. Read on, for an article from a past issue of our [...]
A vampire and a princess walk into a consignment shop….
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged customers, Halloween on October 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A vampire and a princess walk into a consignment shop…. Now’s the time for your biggest costume push. Use all your


