Dear Old Dad. Just because you don’t carry “guy stuff” doesn’t mean you can’t make money on this holiday! Newspaper item: Anticipated PER PERSON spending on Father’s Day over $100! You just gonna let them go to the mall and blow their budgets there? I do hope you’re not planning on that $$ being spent [...]
Posts Tagged ‘holidays’
What will YOUR customers buy for Father’s Day?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged holidays, merchandising on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What will your customers buy for Mother’s Day gifts?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, blogging, holidays, HowToConsign.com, resale shopkeeping on May 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll bet a lot of your current, potential, and future customers will not think about your store this week, as Mother’s Day gets nearer and nearer. Maybe you’d like a little hand? Glad to oblige: we’ve crafted
Happy Earth Day. Just in case you forgot.
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged holidays, resale shopkeeping, small business on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes, we consignment, resale, and thrift shop keepers, shoppers, and staff forget, in the flurry of fashion and style, that “saving the Earth” is a valid reason to run our businesses! I’m always flabbergasted
Husbands & daughters: Getting them in to your consignment shop
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged advertising, holidays on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
96% of shoppers, they say, do something for Mother’s Day. And who does the most gift-buying? Husbands and daughters. So it only makes sense for you to focus your consignment, resale, or thrift marketing for Mother’s Day on these folks. How about: Creating a pretty fill-in-the-blank handout in your shop, for mothers to list their [...]
Got Styrofoam? Be Mine for Valentine’s Day
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged display, holidays on February 1, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Those darn holidays just creep up on us, no matter how well-intended our window-display plans are. Auntie Kate to the rescue, at least for Valentine’s Day.
I {heart} Valentine’s Day all year long in consignment & resale!
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged customers, holidays, promotions on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Can you think of a holiday better suited to consignment, thrift and resale shops than Valentine’s Day? After all, don’t ALL of your customers always say
Don’t forget your most-neglected potential customers
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged holidays on January 9, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Just a reminder: Martin Luther King Day is Monday Jan 16. Seize the shoppertunity! Monday holidays can be big traffic days in your shop, if
A free day coming up: are you ready?
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged holidays, selling on January 6, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Wow, it’s 2012! You know what THAT means… No, it doesn’t mean the world will end “according to the Mayans.” It means: It’s a Leap Year, and we get an extra FREE day, a February 29: Great news for
Snuggle up together.
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged christmas, holidays on December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Your shop feeling kinda ho-ho’d out?
Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged christmas, holidays, merchandising on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
See this video of ideas from a NFP thrift chain, Thrift Town, and see if it doesn’t spark a little push of holiday enthusiasm in your merchandising! (Another of their videos. I’d create my own version of this for next December… with lyrics as captions. And maybe VIP customers? Wouldn’t that filming be a great [...]
Need a consignment or resale subject line? Think party.
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged christmas, holidays, home decor, selling, web on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Need a blog post, an email subject line, a Facebook entry, a tweet, that will get their attention? Well, between now and
Freshening up for the Holiday Season
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged christmas, holidays, merchandising, selling, shop local on November 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Have you noticed the new header here on Auntie Kate the Blog? I’ve been freshening up for the holiday shopping season, and I hope you are as well. Little things (like my header here) put us all in the shopping mood, don’t they? But we in resale tend to feel
All my shop wants for Christmas…
Posted in My Favorite Things, Shopkeeping talk, tagged christmas, customers, holidays, selling, success on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If I were going to give my consignment, resale, or thrift shop (and therefore, really, my wallet) a holiday gift,
A blog to better your holiday business
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged christmas, holidays, sea of sameness on November 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Are you a consignment, resale, or thrift store? Are you concerned that your market area just doesn’t think green for holiday gear, garb and gifts? Fear no longer! Kate the gently-used good elf has arrived just in time. Bringing
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