Translating “Business Articles” into your Shop

There’s a lot of good information out there, especially on the web, for resale and consignment shops and for non-profit thrift stores as well.
Trouble is, sometimes it’s hard to translate advice written by and aimed towards corporations with  more hierarchy than our businesses.
Here’s an article from Andy Sernovitz which is easier to see ourselves in [...]

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Friday the 13th: Making your own Bad Luck

“Bad luck!” we say, when really, half the time we’re thinking
“If you’d only done thus-and-such, you wouldn’t be in such a predicament.”
It’s not that

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Small business is alive and well

With all the whinging about the world being taken over by the mega-corporations, it’s sometimes hard to remember that small business, too, is alive and well. Families, friends, and neighbors celebrate each others’ successes (and sometimes, mourn their failures), help

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