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There’s a lot of information for resalers of all sorts here on Auntie Kate the Blog.

Some of The Best of Auntie Kate the Blog are listed here.

And don’t miss the free articles and resource links and even the Messy Back Room on TGtbT.com, The Premiere Site for Professional Resalers.

Most Popular:

First, our most popular blog post: a series called 4 Days to Resale Success.

Another series: How Resalers can Make the Holidays Special and spare the earth at the same time

Interested in starting a consignment, resale, thrift shop?

• Here’s a story of a shop which started out very humble (with less than $3600 in current dollars.) and succeeded beyond its founder’s wildest dreams.
• How to open a consignment store
• Is now a good time to open a consignment shop?
• How to open a consignment shop. And how NOT to.
• If I started today…
• Things I wouldn’t do… if I were starting today
• Using HowToConsign.com to find future customers

Love resale shopping of all sorts? Resalers love you BACK with lots of tips to Turn Your Cluttered Closets into Cash on our consumer-oriented site, HowToConsign.com

The most profit-generating posts

• Five to Thrive
• The 4 Rules of Making it BIG in Consignment
• This is the one that’s most widely-ignored yet easiest and cheapest to do.
• Profit? Spell it Perceived Value.

The BIG Picture: Auntie Kate the Blog on

• Starting a shop
• Merchandising your shop
• Advertising your business
• Accepting merchandise

But I do it DIFFERENT

• Examining seasonal consignment events
• I’m more into recycling and ecology than being a financial czar
• Most important to me? Making my shop stand out from the rest

Fun Stuff

• A “Shop of the Week” contest: Those who saw their shop on Auntie Kate won a prize.
• Get to know Auntie Kate. It’s fun…I think.

Read them all!

Here’s every one of our blog posts, listed from the earliest to the latest:

• My first post. Isn’t it CUTE?
• Steal it, sell it on eBay.
• Everybody’s doin’ it…
• Drawing browsers into a back room
• Gimmee a break
• Husband maintains shop as loving tribute to late wife
• A Magic Carpet to a Better Shop for you and your clientele
• Couture Candy… guess that’s the only kind their audience eats
• Turn her cell phone into lemonade for your shop!
• “How long you been here?”
• Four weeks to Conference… here’s your To-Do List!
• The lushness of life
• Politicians and the Recycle Vote
• Three weeks until Conference!
• Oops. Bad choices lead to shop’s failure.
• Twinkle with enthusiasm!
• Down to the Wire
• We just did what every other store in our city does.
• Cute shop…strange remark
• Just ONE week!
• “So, what do you do for a living?”
• Are you a frequent eater?
• Resale in the News: Things you might have missed
• The debt we owe: Liz Claiborne
• Alas and alack… they don’t love you back.
• The billboard you can carry in your pocket.
• Flip flops, Manolo Blahniks, whatEVER
• Roswell: The Paris of Alien Couture
• When was the last time you got a real live honest-to-gosh letter?
• What’s a label whore?
• Happy birthday, emoticon, baby! ;-)
• Soon, there will be only half as many…
• You never know who’s watching…
• We we we all the way home….
• Look at it this way…
• Recipes. One of the best parts of friendship.
• This book by Sam Horn just POPped out at me…
• When in doubt, right-click.
• Thinking about a blog for your shop?
• How green can you be…drinking water from far far away…
• More we-we-we-we comments
• Magical mystery tour…
• Something that’s always puzzled me
• Imagine my surprise!
• Anyone besides me notice this disconnect here?
• The saga continues
• The thrill of the hunt
• The growth outlook for resale shops
• My dirty little secret.
• Singing veggies
• Busy? Overwhelmed? Frustrated?
• You’d never know by looking?
• Hurricane Katrina could not defeat the resale industry
• Pardon me, your attitude is showing
• Life’s a challenge
• Chicken in Pants
• A tiny slice of (your) life
• How to open a (wildly successful) consignment shop
• The Ebb and Flow of Merchandising
• Small business is alive and well
• Selling a sale!
• Thought for the Day
• How can a consignment shop go BANKRUPT?
• My favorite things, or, Kate as your personal shopper
• Toxic TV
• Q & A Time: Success is overwhelming this consignment shop owner
• Is there any such thing as “TMI”?
• A Favorite Thing: Elegant chalkboard
• Kate learns something new
• How to love to go to work every morning (even if sometimes it’s all 7 mornings)
• Setting Limits: Must you work 24/7 to succeed in business?
• How to get browsers to buy less
• Continuing Education
• Another Favorite Thing
• Consignment around the world!
• If you want to wear silk
• What I do when I am not hectoring, lecturing, and browbeating resalers
• Helping teens find their personal style
• Make your holiday windows a delight
• It all started with a pair of gym socks.
• Is your resale shop the place to be?
• Ding Dong Merrily on High….
• Don’t you love double duty? Another Favorite Thing
• How strict are your policies?
• How do *shoplifters* get away with it?
• Are YOU your biggest stumbling block?
• Quick, hide your “illegal” possession: The Ron Paul Dollar
• Snow, snow, and more snow
• Such gay holiday wrappings… such disgusting trash!
• Look what I found!
• Living Zombies
• Another Favorite Thing…and a Husband’s Christmas Present Solution!
• Have yourself a Polka-Dotty Christmas!
• Christmas Eve Disasters… Resale-Style
• 30% off, 50% off, 75% off…ho hum.
• Razzle-Dazzle Them: Your New Year’s Resolution?
• Will ’08 be great?
• More ways to go bankrupt, even if you don’t pay for your merchandise
• Another Favorite Thing
• Looking over the year….
• The top 5% and the Top 2%: I hope you’re in there
• Is your shop a store…or a storage facility?
• Favorite and Fabulous!
• Why Resale Does WELL when Consumers Cut Back
• What a Croc….
• Valentine’s at the Restaurant: Business super tonight but…
• OOOHHH, let’s go GREEN… by buying more STUFF
• It’s nice to be mentioned….
• Favorite thing, at a favorite price: one nickel
• Customer benefits…even when they aren’t
• Leaping Lizards: A Leap Day Promotional Event for your Shop
• What we can learn from Starbucks
• Done your STRETCHING Today?
• A novel approach to gaining suppliers
• Recession? In resale? Ya gotta be kidding
• Two decades of working with consignment & resale shops
• Are you giving away the store?
• Another View on Resale
• So now you know…this is me BEFORE the phone booth
• What we all can learn from Girl Scout cookies
• Another Favorite Thing at my absolute complete perfect favorite price
• The Banner Index to Recession-Tracking
• What do you think this means?
• Promoting the heck out of your shop
• What, this old bag?
• I’ve been meaning to tell you, Issue 1
• Happy Earth Day
• Don’t tell me what I missed
• Is it Tuesday? Time for tapas!
• Manikins…umm, ladykins… another favorite thing!
• Negativity in Retail: You Become what you Make your Customers Think
• Adaptive reuse Favorite Thing
• The Most Valuable FREE Thing You’ll Ever Get
• Does Resale make YOUR Heart Race?
• I’ve been meaning to tell you, $4 a gallon-wise…
• Oh say can you see…an opportunity to get press coverage?
• I’ve been meaning to tell you about cheap clothes.
• STAYcations can be a boon to business!
• Have you invited them?
• Oh my gosh only 3 weeks ’til Conference 2008!
• Cool decor that will MORE than pay for itself: A Favorite Thing Indeed!
• How to open a consignment shop. And how NOT to.
• Getting ready to board the buses!
• Resale? Consignment? Thrift? What’s the deal here?
• When there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them
• Favorite Thing: New Dressing Room Curtains!
• Poking one’s nose in other people’s business
• I’ve been meaning to tell you….
• 4 Days to Resale Success!
• Day 1: Don’t overthink
• Day 2: Think about the consequences of your actions
• Day 3: Collect all available info
• Day 4: Focus on the Big Picture
• The only language with “making money”
• The 4th’s a family holiday, and God love ‘em.
• What is Perceived Value and where can I get me some?
• Up against the wall… I’ve been meaning to tell you
• Perceived Value: What does MY customer want, and how can I give it to her?
• Perceived value and old clothes. Oxymoron? Day 3 of our webinar
• Perceived Values includes Positive Outcomes
• Perceived Value and The Lipstick Index
• A Challenge to all Resale, Consignment and Thrift Shops
• Who’s in charge here: Mother Nature or The Great Consumer in the Sky?
• The Ideal Consignor or Seller
• The 10 Best Ways to Ruin a Resale Business
• I’ve been meaning to tell you about square watermelons
• How cute are THESE?
• How to turn outdated shoulder pads into next month’s rent.
• Got Foamcore?
• RSS in Plain English…and our Best Back to School Display Contest
• The 52 Things Challenge: Do you DARE to take it?
• How to Fold a T-shirt in Two Seconds Flat… step by step instructions
• Ugly Days at Woman’s Exchange
• Thought for the Day
• International Resale Day July 18 2009
• Almost 3000 people want to know…
• My heavens, that’s TEN years ago! TGtbT.com in 1998
• Looking around for ideas: at the dentist
• Everyone wants just EXACTLY what THEY want.
• They ask: “Has Shopping Lost its Charm?”
• Oldie AND Goodie!
• Recycling… and UPcycling!
• The 10 Best Resale Shop Web Sites
• Fay fizzles…what an advertising opportunity!
• Something new to wear…to buy…to sell!
• Save your Sanity: Today’s Quotation of Use
• Back To School, College, or Work Window Displays
• 40% of you are sitting on your butts?
• See-through lighting: Definitely a Favorite Thing
• Are we any different from “real” stores?
• Style Staples from Tim Gunn and Tide: A Resale Selling Tool
• How many yards of clothes do YOU offer?
• Buy it today, it may not be here tomorrow….or at least put it in layaway.
• Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd
• How to open a consignment store: Second Hand is First Rate when you aim for Resale Success!
• Been meaning to ask you: How’s your elevator speech?
• Whither incoming?
• You know that T-shirt with the stain?
• Halloween’s a MONSTER in Resale Shops
• Go on, gedoutta here.
• How many resalers beat Old Navy to the punch?
• Can’t be a retail success unless you’re open
• Fall’s fashion bets: Your weekend merchandising assignment
• Subject lines designed to get you READ
• Aren’t you glad Freecycle exists?
• Clicks to amuse & enlighten you this weekend
• Get crackin’, as my Granpappy used to say!
• Giving your customers more than they’d planned on off your $1 rack
• Add to your to-do list: Read THIS List!
• Free Halloween Costume Ideas from HowToConsign.com
• Favorite Thing: Make your Countertop a Seasonal Display!
• Scarecrows and Consignment: Match Made in Marketing!
• Take a news story about libraries, and see where it takes your resale shop…
• Wendy Sam is cheap. Way cheap.
• Not doing anything different.
• A Treat for Resale and Consignment Shopkeepers
• An idea to adapt….
• Your Fall Harvest…
• Flamingoville gets off to a good start
• The Flamingo Has Landed
• Bird brains? Not at all!
• Herding Cats
• Goodie Bags, goodie bags….
• Resale Roundtable Poolside
• Absorbing resale information and Florida sun
• Oldie but Better than Ever Goodie
• Get Started with Social Networking: Learn How
• No more playing store.
• You cannot afford to play store.
• Another of Auntie Kate’s Favorite Things
• “She must be playing store.”
• Quitcher…dreamin’
• Resale in the News, in the Spotlight, and in the GROW-lights
• Is it just me…
• Tell them “I’m not playing store here.”
• A picture’s worth a thousand words…or $39.99, whichever’s cheaper
• Did you get this email from eBay?
• Taking a Second Look
• So many Christmas marketing ideas, so little time…
• Holidays: Make them special for kids
• Holidays: Make them special for your relatives
• Holidays: Make them special for your town
• Holidays: Make them special for your community spirit
• What does a 3-year-old “want” for Christmas?
• How to negotiate (for timid people who hate conflict)
• Has retail desperation jaded me?
• Got a Handy Santa?
• Santa not so Handy after all?
• You simply MUST have these.
• What flower are you?
• The cost of winging it
• Well, no sequin sheath for me, come New Year’s
• Christmas Budget Getting Low but still one shopkeeper to go?
• Our coupon’s so popular, we might as well…
• It’s Christmas: Cut the chains of slavery
• Wrapping it all up. Pretty & pretty eco-responsible.
• All I want for Christmas
• Christmas is Past.
• 99 Things for Resale Shopkeepers to blog about.
• Your kids’ closets are full of hazardous waste
• Going to Prison. The crime? Recycling.
• The government declares YOU a CRIMINAL on Tuesday Feb. 10
• CPSC’s Julie Vallese wants consignment & resale shopkeepers to get a BACKBONE
• Is now a good time to open a consignment shop?
• Recession’s GOOD for Resale
• Keeping your “regular shoppers” regular
• There’s nothing on my fridge
• Just about EVERYONE is affected by CPSIA
• A little levity may be in order for resalers.
• Social confirmation: Were you part of the IN crowd?
• How does your resale shop rank?
• My consignment shop? I’d rank it 6, max.
• Trunk shows: Getting your town shopping again
• If I could sew
• The difference between thriving resale shops and those struggling
• Today’s thought
• Somewhere over the rainbow….
• How this consignment story takes me back!
• I’m a Constant Contact All Star!
• Aw, look at that. That’s so CUTE. And better yet, EFFECTIVE.
• Even Wal-Mart gets it.
• How to Manual goes GREEN!
• How to save 20% in less than 3 minutes. Oh, and save the Earth while you’re at it.
• The 3/50 Project: Why I can’t get totally behind it even though I LOVE the idea
• Real or fake designer bag? It can be hard to tell.
• The #2 FREE Practically-FREE Edge resale shops have
• International Take a Photo Weekend
• Is this a 10 or a 10 Petite or a 10 Jane?
• Recycled Fashions and Upcycling Style
• Whatever happened to May Day?
• Too Good to be Threw Shop of the Week
• $1,000,000 profit in 7 years
• Picture’s worth… is it 1,000 words or 1,000 bucks?
• Take the shirt off your back and put on the one in your back room
• I’m NOT procrastinating, I’m organizing
• Can you read minds?
• Happy Mother’s Day, Mom
• Know your Store Brands
• Taking a little SOMEthing from that “poor consignor”
• An inspirational moment…
• Seasonal consignment sales
• Marketing apps so easy, even I understand them.
• Who wins? WordPress, Twitter, Facebook amongst resalers?
• The Shift towards Thrift: 6 Nudges to Apply
• Consignment / Resale Shop of the Week #5
• What’s the perception of your consignment or resale shop?
• Your customer’s secret passion: SURPRISE me!
• Writing for a resale audience
• Ephemeral email, tangible postcards
• Shopping Resale: Is it perfectly natural in your town?
• What to Pack for Conference
• Conference Contest! Tell It in TEN
• How To Consign #1 on Google, now #1 on Bing too!
• HowToConsign on a ROLL….
• Exceedingly Handy and Profit-Building Favorite Thing
• Duck & Hummingbird for breakfast…
• Sunshine Girls (and Guys) at Sunset
• In between Conference workshops…
• Twitter for Resale & Consignment Shopkeepers
• What a waste of a web site.
• Take a shot at it, resalers!
• Been Meaning to Tell You: Alexander Graham Bell’s Magic Profit Machine
• Are you Just Another Shop?
• Ah, ah, the winds of fashion
• Love Loss and What I Wore: The Giveaway
• Beauty or serenity that comes with age
• You’re entering the Need Season
• Implied Approval and how it can make you rich.
• How Strong are YOUR Passwords?
• Need an excuse to visit Paris?
• Look at it this way.
• Rising above it all.
• Are you ready for the Wizard of Oz?
• Up 23%, down 30%, up 19%, what’s going on?
• Are your fence gates open?
• What do you sell in your consignment or resale shop?
• How long should your email, ad, blog message be?
• The Trap of Twitpic
• “This is the GREATEST shop!”
• Who’s Next in the Consignment Biz?
• School started yesterday.
• Blogs for Consignment & Resale Shopkeepers
• TV Turnoff week
• Your blog is your mothership
• Easiest consignment question asked me ever!
• Fun, fun consignment, resale shop blog post
• Come here often?
• Don’t do this, resalers. (Well, anyone really but especially consignment shopkeepers being interviewed.)
• Twitter for Business: Consignment & Resale Division
• Come on in, set awhile. Why NOT to use Twitpic
• Let’s go to the mailbox! A consignment shop owner asks:
• Another mailbox request! Renaming a going consignment business
• Some MORE Halloween Ideas
• HowToConsign.com beats out Facebook.
• Welcome, and WELL DONE!
• A blog to turn your Consignment, Resale, and Thrift customers on to!
• A business plan in 3 words: funny thing, it worked.
• Seasonal consignment sales: What are YOU doing?
• Getting Complaints is Like Winning the Lottery!
• Win a Brace of Bellies! UPDATE: Winners announced!
• How much is YOUR floor space worth?
• Make your kidstuff consignment shop a Must-Stop.
• 7 Ways to Makeover Your Old Shoes For Fall
• Sure glad I’m not manning the sales desk here.
• A vampire and a princess walk into a consignment shop….
• I’ll bet you thought I forgot all about the princess.
• Consignment Mailbox: Handling Dangerous Recalled Goods
• Love this look!
• Some fun finds
• God Bless the Web Masters
• Love these calendar downloads!
• Store Brands Resource for Consignment & Resale Shopkeepers
• Top Ten Resale Shop Sites 2009 Version
• Email, coupons, and pondering customer response
• Excuse me, but is your save-the-earth bag full of germs?
• Cash for Clothing Clunkers: Dare you?
• Consignment Mailbox: How many reusable bags does one responsible resale shopper NEED?
• The IT Issue
• Pumpkins all put away? Ready for a Merry Recycled Holiday?
• 5 things rich consignment & resale shopkeepers do differently than poor shopkeepers.
• How many costumes have you received this week?
• Stop Giving Cash Off in your Consignment Shop NOW
• Why Consignment & Resale Shops Shouldn’t Give Up the (Christmas) Ghost
• The display window you didn’t know you have.
• How much is a new customer worth? A burrito?
• Friday the 13th: Making your own Bad Luck
• Quote for the Day
• How to write to Santa
• Translating “Business Articles” into your Shop
• Wait! Maybe that’s NOT an NTY*!
• Hiding your (holiday) lights under a bushel.
• Recycling, regifting and repurposing previously- cherished…
• Consignment Mailbox: Blowing up snowmen
• One of the cutest consignment, resale, vintage names ever
• Buy your shop a merry little Christmas!
• Too busy to browse?
• Buy One Gift One…perfect consignment shop holiday promo.
• Wrapping Holiday Gifts: Eco-Problem your Consignment or Resale Shop Can Solve
• Being mindful in resale
• Spreading good will via candy canes
• How cool is THIS? Wonder how resalers could adapt…
• Recycling store fixtures in resale & consignment shops
• Last-minute Holiday Email Subject Lines for Resale & Consignment Shopkeepers
• Friends & Family Discounts work for consignment shops too!
• Is it time to start your winter clearance NOW?
• Are they frustrated enough to gift-shop in your shop yet?
• One week til Christmas!
• Gift a consignment shopkeeper, a resale peer, a thrifty friend
• Go shop.
• Whatcha gettin’ for Christmas?
• Need something to talk about at those awkward holiday gatherings?
• Christmas Eve Disasters Resale-style
• The day after Christmas can be a resale bonanza, in both ways.
• Go buy a lot of little Christmas trees this weekend.
• Is there still time to improve your shop this year? You betcha.
• Will next November be GREAT for your consignment shop?
• Is this consignment cheating? Resale rip-off? Thrift thievery? Tell us what you think.
• What are you proudest of having done in ’09?
• Blast from the Past: Is your Razzle Dazzling?
• Handy-Dandy Resolution List for Resale Shopkeepers
• Handy-dandy slow-time projects for consignment & resale shops
• OMG: Turning suppliers OFF
• Spelling is important too.
• Three for GLEE: Delighting Consignment and Resale Clients
• Before the Bag Sale the Big Tag Sale: a consignment and resale technique
• Talk about we-we-we
• Is it time to HOARD used goods? A message for consignment and resale shops…even thrifts!
• Wacky Wednesdays Begin TODAY: Win Something!
• How are you smarter than the other consignment shop?
• Consignment Mini-Tips
• Blast from the Past: Resale Nudges to Apply
• See? I TOLD you it wasn’t an NTY!
• And the winner is…
• Slow in your consignment shop? Go to the mall.
• Wacky Wednesday: How are you BROADENING your customer appeal?
• Consignment & resale shopkeepers Think Outside the Box at Too Good to be Threw
• Thinking outside the Box: Your Jewelry Showcase
• You aren’t a ditto business, are you?
• $50 TGtbT.com Gift Certificate goes to…
• Zoomable Map Bustin’ at the Seams!
• Make your own jewelry cards for your consignment / resale shop
• Wacky Weds: How do you make your shop STICKY?
• Where’s my 87 cents? A Guide to Increasing your Prices for Consignment & Resale Shops.
• Need art?
• Here’s something to Twitter, Facebook or blog about, or send your email list….
• What if you had to save your shop?
• Everything you wanted to know from little paper people
• Wacky Wednesday: Your Favorite Consignment or Resale Phrase
• The 3 Secrets to Success by a guy who probably doesn’t even know what resale or consignment is.
• Ready to be overwhelmed with incoming?
• Fabulously Green
• Things you can learn from First Ladies
• A Winner of a HowToConsign.com listing!
• Playing with lightning
• Wacky Wednesday: Best Piece of Advice you ever got?
• Your sales counter speaks to your customers. What is it saying?
• Fashion without Victim, Feng Shui & Sunshine.
• Snowed in but never snowed under, that’s resalers!
• 3…no 4!…pieces of excellent advice win our Giveaway!
• How much Tweeting is too much Twitter?
• Frugal versus Cheap: A Resaler’s Guide
• Wacky Wednesday Giveaway: Your all-time FAVORITE outfit
• If I started today…
• Things I wouldn’t do…if I were starting today
• Reporter inspires…a resale advertising approach
• 2 wasted opportunities in email
• And the winner’s a third generation recycler!
• A silly penny more…or less
• Others skate to the puck…
• Wacky Wednesdays: Woken up, smelling the coffee
• Silliest fine print I have ever seen.
• Ring ring here is your future calling.
• Are you violating Facebook manners?
• Are your coupons recyclable? If you’re consignment or resale, what else?
• Deja Vuesday: Did you miss this consignment story?
• Wacky Weds: What do you do….
• Paying for votes: what do you think?
• Is now the time to re-examine Buying Outright vs. Consigning?
• Riffs on Recycling
• The Lost Hour…
• Flamingos Flying to Virginia…and avatars coming in for a landing.
• Can your Consignment or Resale Customers Win a Free Party?
• Deja Vuesday: “I can’t seem to turn my consignors into shoppers!”
• Wacky Wednesday: What do you LOVE about being a resale shopkeeper?
• “Cheap is where it’s at”? Agree?
• Is it easy to be a consignor or supplier in your shop?
• The 4 Rules of Making it Big Time in Consignment
• Where did that hour go?
• Wacky Wednesday winner, and a question about pets in your resale shop
• Kate’s off shopping today.
• Deja Vuesday: “How long you been here?”
• Wacky Wednesday Giveaway: Kissin’ the Blarney Stone
• Seasonal sales and year-round shops: can they help each other? Part 1
• Can consignment shops & seasonal sales benefit each other? Part 2 of a series
• Consignment sales and year-round shops: can they help each other? Part 3
• Deja Vuesday: Are your consignment rules messing with YOUR head?
• Wacky Wednesday: Email opinions, tips, recommendations
• RoundUp of Fun Things for Consignment Shops
• Favorite Thing: A Swing Shop Skeleton
• When is FREE more than you can afford?
• Buying Outright: ‘Tis the season for consignment shops?
• Deja Vuesday all over again
• Can Tweeting kill your consignment or resale shop?
• Could be your consignment or resale shop’s next Favorite Thing!
• Hashtags, Twitter, & NARTS Conference
• Spring into Spring with a Facebook album.
• Is your consignment shop in a college town? Is your target resale customer a student?
• Mudflap Moments
• What problems can you solve for them?
• Can’t consign it? Can’t sell it? Maybe you should BUY it from them.
• Making it real…on tape
• Consignment & Resale Shopkeepers losing faith in Twitter
• Can you convert a browser to a customer in 4 minutes? No? How about if I give you twice the time?
• Did you forget Earth Day?
• Are 2-ways the bullet points of retail?
• Purse party, taken to new heights.
• What’s on their minds? Marketing locally
• Just a quick refresher: Sale or sell?
• Giving staff the tools they need
• Celebrate!
• Hiring a teen for the summer
• Does your consignment shop support the counterfeit trade? Your resale shop rip off copyright holders?
• Where are all the pictures?
• Customer Service? Ha!
• Consignment & Resale Shop Banners Draw Business
• Things mothers say… about consignment shopping.
• What perks do your favorite customers get?
• Jessica’s Place… Consignment with Style and Heart
• Make your consignment or resale shop stand out…
• Another way to extend your business reach.
• Bury the stinkers.
• Now, let’s tend our consignment and resale gardens.
• Variation on a Theme: Consignment – Crazy!
• College Kids Moving Out? Teach ‘em to consign!
• Happy Weekend! Even consignment & resale shopkeepers get to have a weekend…
• What consignment shops can do with those illegal drop-side cribs.
• Paying for Facebook fans, Yahoo reviews, Merchant Circle endorsements?
• Countdown to NARTS Consignment and Resale Conference
• Teamwork: This part of staffing your store is crucial!
• Oh my, what a stunning consignment shop! A rare resale shop! A thrilling thrift!
• A simple moment of appreciation.
• Things you didn’t even know you needed.
• Recycled store display fixtures are the bomb!
• You have a friend in resale! A compadre in consignment, a pal in thrift!
• 3 weeks to go…imagine, we’ll be on the NARTS Resale Bus Tour this morning!
• Consignment / resale shop Weekend Project
• Are your windows doing their job?
• Consignment and Resale Display Inspiration
• Oh my papa, to me he is so wonderfully gently-used!
• Stuff for consignment and resale shopkeepers to do over the weekend.
• Thinking Outside the Box Part 2: Showcase Risers
• “Most people do not make discoveries because they do not expect to.”
• 1 Week ’til NARTS Consignment / Resale / Thrift Conference
• Cut it out: Making better consignment and resale photos
• Follow NARTS Conference…
• The Ultimate Recycled Footwear
• Are you #1?
• 10 Ways Reading this Blog Can Make You $100 This Week
• It’s Deja Vuesday… and it’s Wednesday???
• Off to the annual consignment conference!
• Neutron bomb has fallen.
• Consignment / Resale Braggin’ rights: Google Favorite Place
• Subject lines for Consignment & Resale Email
• The Tyranny of To-Do Lists
• No way you’re gonna read 570 entries…
• Haven’t opened your consignment shop yet? Or maybe you just need more fans?* My best advice.
• Fold ‘em, roll ‘em, throw a sheet over ‘em: Resale & Consignment Shop Tactics
• Tell Kate what to do.
• Being cheap where it counts…against you.
• Is your dance card empty?
• Deja Vuesday: Take a look at how your consignment shop looks to strangers
• How to be better than 90% of your consignment or resale competitors
• BackAgain Bucks, Come Back Coupons, and the like: July’s the Time!
• Filing things at your consignment shop, or featuring for resale?
• The Consignment/ Resale Weekend Warrior
• Here’s a birthday present for you.
• Deja Vuesday: A better way to advertise your season-end sale in your consignment shop
• Inspiration is everywhere!
• What to do with your resale shop clearance sale leftovers.
• Weekend Warrior: Consignment & Resale shop posts can draw more traffic
• Commercials for consignment and resale shops
• What a delicious idea for a consignment / resale shopping event!
• Can you say that in consignment -ese, please?
• So that’s why bait shops are a disgrace to retail.
• “How long you been here?”
• Weekend Warrior
• What do all these stores have in common…and does yours?
• Deja Vuesday: Come shopping with me…
• Consignment and Resale’s Transitional Merchandising
• Weekend Warrior: Improve thyself (or at least thy knowledge base)
• You are more special than you think.
• Deja Vuesday. Geesh, it’s back-to-school time in resale already.
• Drowning in incoming merchandise yet? Life-saving tips from Auntie Kate
• Now here’s Sumthing Unique for consignment/ resale shop photos!
• Nothing whatsoever to do with consignment, resale, thrift shops in any way.
• You got a logo…so use it!
• Your Consignment / Resale Shop Wish List is WAY more important than you think.
• Deja Vuesday: Memo to all Thrift, Resale & Consignment Shops re Success
• Making more money in your consignment shop… or wasting time?
• October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Tags = Sales. Does that make your consignment or resale shop a tag sale?
• The 4 Steps to Freshen Up a Resale Shop.
• Step 2 to Freshen up a Consignment, Thrift, or Resale Shop: Spruce it up.
• Step 3 in Freshening up your Resale, Thrift, Consignment Shop: Liven It Up
• Step 4: Now that your resale shop is freshened up, let’s freshen up the till, shall we?
• A Final Checklist for Consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers who aim to freshen up their shops
• Do you have a problem with “no problem”?
• Everyone’s a winner (or can be) at consignment and resale shops!
• The value of space to consignment shops and all resalers.
• Oh, oh, it’s almost here: Resale’s MOST IMPORTANT Holiday!
• More consignment & resale shop promotional ideas: October is…
• Say they want to bring stuff in. What happens now in your consignment or resale shop?
• TMI?
• Happy Labor Day. Read my consignment labor of love.
• Deja Vuesday: The 4 Rules of Making it BIG in Consignment
• How…and why…to “Favorite” on Twitter
• Are you boring the sox off your potential customers?
• You don’t occupy a lot of their brain
• It’s not too early to plan your holiday promotion.
• Deja Vuesday: What makes a great promotion?
• Why should you care how much your business is worth, if you’re not thinking of selling?
• Pretty Pictures: Getting your name out there.
• How’s Halloween going in your consignment shop?
• Big anniversary coming up for me… and the presents will be for you.
• Consignment Anniversary Celebration. Win a free book!
• My consignment anniversary giveaway: In honor of Martha Stewart
• Kate’s 35th Anniversary Giveaway for consignment & resale shopkeepers: About training staff.
• Consignment / resale/ thrift shop giveaway week: It’s not all about price.
• What’s your stumbling block? A question for all consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers.
• Consignment & Resale winners announced!
• Are not-for-profit thrift shops reaching out to their industry peers?
• Is she a secret blogger…or him over there…or that other one?
• Mind your mummy…Mind your money.
• Offering the sameold sameold to your consignment or resale customers? How about doing it with a twist?
• Happy Breast Cancer Awareness Month, consignment and resale and thrift shops.
• How many tweets do your followers follow?
• Tell them they’re helping, not hurting, the needy!
• The next rung of the retail ladder.
• Enough with the questions, Auntie Kate. Let’s see some answers.
• What can a shopkeeper be for Halloween?
• What’s the difference?
• A picture’s worth a thousand more bucks… in increased sales.
• Deja Vuesday: Consignment & resale…even thrift…stores could attract more teen buyers
• 4 ways to have happy customers
• Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without: The resale shopkeeper’s guide
• Hand me the popcorn…Show me the clothes.
• How can For-Profit Consignment Shops Support Not-for-Profit Thrifts?
• A TGtbT Teeny Tip for Consignment, Resale, Thrift Shops
• Deja Vuesday: 52 Ways to Reduce Stress: From the consignment and resale POV
• One last Halloween entry for consignment and resale shops
• Cardboard makes memorable windows at a resale-friendly price.
• Spelling it out for consignment and resale shops
• ‘Tis the Season
• Perk up your Twitter background. For free. Have fun.
• Over the Top: Doing Consignment and Resale Displays
• Deja Vuesday: How consignment and resale shops can make the holidays special for their clients
• Nobody knows the charities I seen…
• Keeping the holidays bright…in your consignment, resale, or thrift shop.
• A TGtbT Teeny Tip for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops
• Too Good to be Threw The Complete Operations Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops is #57 in the world!
• Deja Vuesday: Consignment, resale, thrift thoughts Too Good to be Threw
• Before and After: Stuff on Furniture
• The Key to Holiday Selling for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops.
• Holiday window displays, Resale Style
• Deja Vuesday: Lay it away?
• Learning from the professionals: Holiday Window Ideas for Consignment and Resale Shops
• Small Business Saturday: Jump on the AmEx bandwagon
• Do’s and don’ts of the consignment and resale holiday shopping experience
• Sophisticated? Childlike? Both in this shop decor.
• Take a ghastly, icky, no-way-Jose sweater. Please.
• Knick-Knack Patty Knack…
• Packaging can make all the difference. Yes, even in consignment and resale.
• A season-long display window for resale, consignment, thrift shops.
• Today’s TGtbT Teeny Tip for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops
• Use your Facebook Photo Album to build business, recognition, WOM about your consignment, resale, thrift shop.
• Top 10 Resale/ Consignment/ Thrift Shop Sites for 2010
• We beg to differ, Maxine!
• What’s the worth of one customer to a consignment or resale shop?
• A TGtbT Teeny Tip for Consignment, Resale, & Thrift Stores:
• More consignment, resale wholesale sources!
• Quick client gifts in case you forgot
• Your consignment shop marketing plans, simplified
• Will your Holiday Giveaway be as Successful?
• “Do you consign? I do, here’s why.”
• Deja Vuesday: How do shoplifters get away with it?
• Creative Consignment, Rad Resale, Knock-em-dead NFP
• Choosing Consignment, Resale, Thrift Resolutions for the New Year
• Deja Vuesday: It’s almost over!
• Holiday Cheer to All of You
• A little gift to you, from you!
• Auntie Santa wishes you a thrifty happy Christmas
• Christmas every day of the year.
• Slaying the Regifting Dragon
• Holiday bustle alive and well in consignment & resale
• Holiday business continues for Resale, Consignment, & Thrift Stores
• Are you lying to yourself about your consignment shop?
• Gathering your consignment & resale tools for 2011
• Resale RoundUp, 2010 edition
• What a LOT of Number Ones!
• Planning your New Year?
• Resortwear: The Fifth Season for Consignment, Resale & Thrift Shops
• Gimme some more FACE….
• A TGtbT Teeny Tip for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops
• 10 Easy Ways to get More Free Time, Resale Version.
• Safety First.
• Snow Day Projects
• New Ideas for your New Year: What If?
• Gloomy grey sleety slushy? Not in consignment, it’s not!
• Is “Get Organized!” part of your NY Resolutions?
• Now that you have a little time…
• Snow day? Go on a Picnik in your consignment, resale, thrift shop!
• Snow-bound audiences…
• Following my Followers: A Twitter Journey
• Retailing is not Rocket Science.
• Better ways to say things.
• Customer Service…the most neglected area of all
• What do they HATE about your consignment, resale, or thrift shop?
• The best things in life…are better when they aren’t free?
• Of poop and magic sparkles: Valentine’s Day for consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers
• Are your pants pocket-free?
• Winter is OVER. I mean, OOO-VER!
• Tell me, what are you doing in your consignment, resale, thrift shop?
• Ah, the lost art of customer service.
• What it’s worth. There…and Here.
• Return policies: Are you ticking off 99.9% of your clientele?
• Happy customers: That’s the goal, right?
• Deja Vuesday: How is your consignment or resale shop special?
• It’s all relative. And nowhere will you learn that better than in a consignment shop.
• Tiny Tweaks Big Results
• Insider Knowledge: Your Hidden Talent
• Do they know you? Making Best Business Buddies.
• Deja Vuesday: Are you out of your mind?
• Hook ‘em, Danno! A consignment /resale tip
• Not-for-Profit Thrift Shops: Improving Donations
• Trying something new…in used stuff.
• Where am I again? A shop-name reinforcement…
• Consignment, resale, thrift shop Sundays
• Auntie Kate {hearts} resalers
• Adding another dimension to your consignment or resale shop
• What’s YOUR mood when you’re working your way through your in-box?
• Consigning prom attire: Getting it in
• Will they spend more money if it saves them time?
• You probably already have enough customers
• How to afford a cruise.
• Making consignment, resale, thrift customers feel even MORE special.
• 5 Things your consignor won’t tell you
• 5 Things your NONconsignor won’t tell you
• Be proudful. You’re the best consignment or resale shop around, right?
• Random Acts of Kindness: How they fit into your consignment or resale shop
• Now that the weather’s nicer: Go visiting other resale shops!
• What I learned, visiting other shops, that’s useful for consignment & resale shops
• Has your consignment or resale or thrift shop grown like Topsy?
• If a prune can be a sun-dried plum
• 5 things your consignment customer won’t tell you
• Capturing those Out-of-Towners
• Comp it. Go ahead. It’s worth it.
• Are your showcases boring your shoppers to death?
• So tell me: what would you like to explore about consignment or resale today?
• Teeny Tip: Bookmark inspiration
• Earring cards and the Perceived Value of said earrings
• How about a Happy Hour in your consignment or resale shop?
• Selling is a SERIES of ongoing opportunities.
• Who’s your Ideal Consignor…Donor…Seller?
• Social Media for Resale
• The ReEvent: Learning by Surfing
• Today’s Teeny Tip: An immediate media gallery for your shop!
• Oh, those wonderful inspirational consignment and resale shops!
• How to go from AU (Absolutely Unremarkable) to GOLD (Good Original Luxurious Detail.)
• Oh my aching head….
• They aren’t paying attention, Part #2
• “My talent circle”…great concept for ALL resale shopkeepers
• Teeny Tip: Cheapest Tricks & Best Buys for Resale Shops
• Good-enough-to-chomp consignment shop Easter display
• Savvy Auntie… not me, you.
• It’s Spring: Garage & yard sales are waiting to cut into your business.
• What’s more important: tempting their imagination or telling them how much it costs?
• “The messier and more confusing a store looks, the better the deals it projects.”
• Getting Full Value from the Good you do
• SNOOZE ALARM…really really boring ways to say things
• SNOOZE ALARM, Part 2: Tell ‘em in a way they really will HEAR.
• SNOOZE ALARM 3: Over-modest, self-limiting… & rodent-infested.
• Why you need store bucks. 10 Reasons. You can think of more, I’m certain.
• What’s wrong with this picture?
• The Mom Contest at your consignment, resale, thrift shop.
• Let your merchandise speak for itself.
• Snooze Alarm: Stop nagging, start enticing.
• Can seasonal sales help consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers? YOU decide.
• Logos I Like: a Gallery of Inspiration for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops.
• Logos I rejected (and why)
• Hidden delights
• OMG Emergency! It’s just a week ’til Prom!
• A new word for the #consignment, resale, thrift industry.
• Form or function? Which works for consignment, resale, thrift shops?
• 5-Minute Fix: Grooming your Shop
• A Poll: How would cheap stuff sell best?
• In honor of Cinco de Mayo, a Spanish lesson for resalers
• 5-Minute Fix: Enlivening your Photos
• Really, is free worth it?
• Happy Mother’s Day
• Consignment & Resale Strategic Planning: The Final Dregs
• 5-Minute Fix: Enlivening your Shop
• How much does a supplier cost?
• “There are no special deals at this time.”
• Find an honest friend, improve your shop
• 5-Minute Fix: Enlarging your Shop
• Wise words from a consignment shopkeeper
• Add value. Get full price. Everyone’s happy.
• The English are SO much cooler about recycling clothes.
• Oscar Wilde as Consignment Consultant.
• Winnie the Pooh as resale shopkeeper.
• Making a “temporary” web site
• If they have something nice to say…
• Ask questions on Facebook to get them involved
• Got your AGD?
• Wise words for your resale business.
• Elie Tahari: “Do it with love.”
• Muffin-top Consignment Agreements.
• 5-Minute Fixes: DIY Newspaper Coverage.
• Find a mentor
• Not for non-profits alone: Facebook helps NFPs
• 5-Minute Fix: Fix your Location in their minds
• Help Stamp out Dumb Questions!
• Make an impression.
• Say it in…colorful….words
• What’s goes around… is round.
• Great intro to this consignment shop!
• Is it work or is it play?
• “What’s the name of that shop I love?”
• Gettin’ my stuff done. See you at Conference.
• Saw a great billboard yesterday.
• Dressing rooms: Make a statement in your consignment, resale, thrift shop.
• “What’s the name of that shop I love?” Part 2
• OPEN HOUSE for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers
• Slow in your #consignment, resale, thrift shop?
• So simple. So effective. So perfect for your consignment or resale shop.
• What I didn’t get to say in “The Price is Right… or is it?”
• “5 Fabulous Finds”: What a find!
• Making your postal message greener…
• Happy 4th of July!
• Sharing discussion board on your smartphone?
• Deja Vuesday: Using your sidewalk to call attention to your shop.
• My new arrival isn’t a boy or a girl.
• Of swarm parties and mayors.
• They’re just discovering these Resale Truths?
• Interesting approach to being a consignment shop. Watcha think?
• Next Best Thing to being there: The Price is Right… or is it?
• It’s like you, only better.
• You are now entering the Need Season.
• The kerfuffle that ate my Sunday
• HowToConsign is in Redbook!
• Bringing your Passion for Fashion to life
• Um. You CAN’T?
• Snap tags, QR codes, 2D codes, post-click experiences: say what?
• How would your logo look on your chest?
• All the resale & consignment news that’s fit to print.
• Which do you need worst: Consignors or shoppers?
• Consignment & Resale: Leaps & Bounds!
• Recycling creates resale store fixtures!
• Think you could fit these shoes?
• Build customer loyalty by answering unspoken questions… on Youtube
• Ditch the employee discount, says resale master
• You, too, can be Auntie Kate
• Are your clearance racks chaotic?
• How do you recycle your own stuff?
• How flexible is your shop?
• Sword play in Twitter: Drawing blood
• Nice way to put it….
• Afraid of blogs? Here’s a little tip.
• Talking to your consignors.
• Aw, come on. Help me out here.
• Educate yourself. And your customers.
• I like the sound of that.
• 4 Weeks to Plan a Birthday Party: You can do it!
• Your most memorable resale sale.
• Simple resale display
• Another great photo from a consignment shop
• Cultivating future revenue in your consignment or resale shop
• How leftovers can lure skeptical customers.
• Sometimes, ya gotta hit ‘em over the head.
• Have a GROUPON Gathering! The next step.
• And the wheels keep spinning….
• How many resale shopkeepers friends do you have?
• Oh, that just puts me in the mood to buy.
• Agree? Disagree? Explain.
• Give ‘em a treat, let them treat their neighbors… and add a certain je ne sais quoi…
• Get it together before the fall rush.
• Does your home page do its job in getting customers in?
• Love this!
• But it’s still summer!
• Is that a real ______________ ?
• Is George winking… or flinching? Balanced budgets in Consignment
• Love this solution… and this resale display!
• Hire right… fire less.
• “I’m Jessi and this is my suitcase.”
• Great way to phrase it.
• Agree? Disagree? Explain.
• “Do you have sales?”
• Who shops better… someone with a 20% coupon, or someone with a friend?
• What, is, truly, customer service?
• Sky Hook. Just what your consignment or resale shop (probably) needs.
• Don’t you sometimes wish…
• Oh my goodness, they were right.
• Are your staffers your Brand Ambassadors?
• 4 Steps to Approaching a Retail Customer
• Who sez we gotta be straight?
• The one thing to NEVER say to a customer.
• Agree? Disagree? Explain.
• Blogs Useful for Consignment, Resale, & Thrift Shops
• Interesting twist on the NFP thrift/ volunteer conundrum
• Gee, I forgot all about this.
• You got a personality, right? So USE it.
• Changeable logos: Just the thing for consignment & resale!
• Extreme Makeover, Resale Style.
• Golly, this is fun.
• Etsy inspiration for consignment & resale shops
• How your resale shop can use Facebook Places.
• Absolute price? Absolute Rubbish.
• A consignment check photo is worth a thousand words.
• Building your consignment, resale, or thrift shop.
• “Guilt-Free Splurging”
• Is your consignment, resale, or thrift shop AWASH yet?
• Tired of the slow lane in your consignment shop?
• Getting your suppliers to clean out their closets
• Improve your timing & get more WOM
• Puzzled how to make your consignment shop look good, this time of year?
• Inspiration among the Electrons
• Cheapskate. Wear the badge proudly.
• A little levity can’t hurt.
• Are you Supergirl? This time of the consignment year, you better be.
• SHOW it to sell it.
• Don’t make them suffer through one more boring subject line about Halloween
• “Get the job…for less than $100.”
• A weekend’s worth of reading for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers.
• No, no, don’t sell that in your driveway!
• So a woman and her sister walk into a consignment shop…
• Got staff? You need this.
• How to get noticed in your town.
• The absolute, bar-none, way to succeed in resale and consignment.
• How to market a handyman’s delight.
• Does your consignment shop have a hotline?
• Never seen anything like it: A Perfectly Good Reason to Accept It.
• Get a Press Kit together… finally.
• The most over-looked brilliant idea on my blog.
• No such thing as a dumb question.
• Labor Day: Providing for your staff
• Time Lapse Discounts
• A kangaroo hops into your consignment shop…
• Who makes the rules around here…and WHEN?
• Giant images…DO try this at home
• Have you got a one-track mind?
• An “About Us” with personality
• Wonderful non-profit thrift store find.
• The Internet: It’s free, but do you get FULL VALUE?
• Lagniappe as a word-of-mouth tactic
• A Saturday treat for consignment, resale, and thrift shops.
• Pause. Grieve. Think.
• 5-Minute Fix: Use your email to better your business
• “I wrote the same but in different words”
• 5 Minute Fix: Getting the most out of Facebook
• How would YOU price that?
• Prepping consigned or donated goods… how much do you do?
• Ready to go back to school for the sake of your business? Do it 24/7, free.
• Which would you rather lose: a Guinea Pig or your head?
• STOP stopping!
• 5 Minute Fix: Tweetin’ your little heart out
• 5 Minute Fix: Getting the most out broadcast emails
• 5 Minute Fix: Is your web site doing its job?
• Shout it from the… storefront!
• Some one else’s back room is worse.
• Twitjacked! If it can happen to Buffalo Exchange…
• Are you boring your employees right out the door?
• Is your shop preaching to the choir?
• Facebook complainers sound WAY too familiar to consignment shop owners.
• It’s the first day of fall. You know what that means.
• “We’ve created a new policy”
• It’s September 23: Time for a Blast from the Past!
• Prepping consigned items for the sales floor
• A thought if you are feeling overwhelmed in your shop.
• It’s Time to Ask for NWTs!
• Deja Vuesday: How about a SITEwalk Sale?
• Tired of being a Mystery Man? Or a Man at all?
• Who sez you gotta be straight?
• Anyone have a time-horn?
• Rearranging the sales floor is hard work.
• Missing the once-a-year opportunity to grow your resale biz?
• What the #%$^&^$, snails?
• The joys of consulting
• Lessons from the Internet: Amazon tempts sellers
• Kate concedes, but watch your language.
• Deja Vuesday: “I can’t seem to turn my consignors into shoppers!”
• There go the diamonds, down the drain.
• Are you getting wider?
• Things I’ve told you a thousand times.
• How far we consignment, resale, thrift owners have come.
• Ram Dass on consignment
• Look like the Professional Resaler you are.
• Is your consignment or resale shop lookin’ GOOD?
• Great consignment shop owner, lousy mother?
• Why relying on Facebook alone will kill your business.
• Ooh, ouch. Not the right answer…
• Some inspiring window displays.
• For want of $1.20, a customer’s loyalty was lost.
• What to do with 75 pink bras?
• Consignment clutter can be GOOD.
• Good ways to say things
• You CAN have a GREAT holiday season in your consignment, resale, or thrift shop
• Deja Vuesday: “How long you been here?”
• You’re an expert. Believe me.
• Help; tell about YOUR experiences with Black Friday in consignment, resale, thrift
• Getting action from all that Facebook Time
• Truckloads of wonderful ideas… now all she needs is FOCUS
• Do YOU think outside the box?
• Running out of Halloween costume ideas in your consignment or resale shop?
• Deja Vuesday: A holiday promo you shouldn’t resist.
• We may be small, but we’re mighty full of promotional ideas!
• Even the smallest shop needs this. Not to mention the largest.
• Be careful what you put out there.
• Fix yer Pix.
• Et voila, the perfect blouse to complete the look.
• Show off your newly-developed communications skills.
• Top 10 Reasons to Shop Local. And to Shop Resale, natch.
• A cartoon only a consignment, resale, or thrift shopkeeper would think funny.
• Did you forget your costume this morning? Shame on you!
• Emergency costume: Thrift stores, right up your alley!
• Just in case you don’t have enough Trick-or-Treaters at the door…
• Deja Vuesday: Can you think a year ahead?
• Methinks thou doth protest too much…
• Dangerous Products: Spread the Word
• Using gift cards in another way in consignment shops…
• Feng your Shui… or your customers’!
• HowToConsign.com’s Mailbag
• Into fashion? In for the night?
• Ain’t it the truth.
• A blog to better your holiday business
• Is your resale shop setting up hurdles?
• A Shop Local Holiday Gift for Consignment, Resale & Thrift Shops
• Hard to believe. Not a single resaler is taking advantage of Small Business Saturday?
• Pick the last Picker.
• No ID, no idea
• All my shop wants for Christmas…
• Poetry for consignment, resale and thrift shops
• It’s a Classic.
• Deja Vuesday: “Here’s what’s happening this holiday season”
• Motivating donations… or incoming of any sort!
• Freshening up for the Holiday Season
• Showing Mom and Dad just how much they can save.
• Why I Am Not Opening Your Email This Holiday Season
• Spectacular and Cheap: The BEST Christmas Window This Year!
• Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
• Sometimes, it’s the most obvious thing.
• Deja Vuesday: Still funny, even if (hopefully) a bit less true
• A button a consignment, resale, AND thrift store could love.
• I’ll take one of those wings, please.
• Can you help your clients be charitable?
• Give your customers the GIFT of guilt-free splurging
• Good karma t-shirts: Good for your thrift shop’s cause?
• Prove to me your SHOP shops local before you ask ME to.
• Deja Vuesday: 5 Things Rich Resale Shop Owners Do Differently
• Need a consignment or resale subject line? Think party.
• The best ideas come from friends.
• Introducing your consignment or thrift via video
• Are your helpers too comfortable or too fearful?
• Your shop feeling kinda ho-ho’d out?
• Deja Vuesday: Plan now for profits.
• Give ‘em a photo op!
• Don’t beg… beguile.
• Still need a perfect gift for your BFF, your shop manager, yourSELF?
• Start Planning Better
• Keep the kids happy while Mom shops
• An idea to tuck away for next year… or…
• Are the kids driving you crazy yet?
• Planning tool for consignment, resale, and thrift shops for 2012
• Crowdsourcing
• Deja Vuesday: What choices will YOU make for your consignment, resale, thrift shop?
• Snuggle up together.
• May your week-after-Christmas be merry & bright.
• A ’54 convertible light blue. A duplex and checks.
• What to buy for your shop at Christmas Clearance
• Deja Vuesday: Buy now, profit from the good will later.
• New use for old entertainment centers
• Clear them out and clean up
• The best way to have a Happy New Year is to look back on this one
• Make 2012 a banner year for your consignment, resale, or thrift store
• Happy New Year, courtesy Dr. Seuss
• What If… you didn’t bother tweeting for your shop?
• What If… you could jump-start your shop’s 2012 business?
• What If… you fine-tuned your incoming procedures?
• What If… you could get some free publicity?
• A free day coming up: are you ready?
• Profitable New Year to all my consignment, resale & thrift friends
• Can we talk Christmas just one more time?
• Don’t forget your most-neglected potential customers
• Deja Vuesday: Getting (gulp) organized
• Eavesdrop on a consignment experience
• Edit your world
• Your Good Luck Post for Friday the 13th.
• I {heart} Valentine’s Day all year long in consignment & resale!
• Ya know that money ya wanna borrow from your family? Read this first.
• Deja Vuesday: Is your resale shop boring your visitors?
• Brian’s video tips in action.
• Have you filled out all your 1099s yet?
• Furniture consignment shop interview video: Your thoughts?
• Random Notes on Superbowl Sunday and Consignment
• Have you done your bragging lately?
• Deja Vuesday: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without
• Here’s a great way to use Facebook
• Pushing their WANT button
• Competition: Deal with it
• Bookmark this!
• What consignment, resale, & thrift shops can learn from…. gently-used old newspaper ads.
• Where’s your takeaway window?
• Inspiration from all over
• Got Styrofoam? Be Mine for Valentine’s Day
• A display made to order for consignment, resale and thrifts
• Agree? Disagree? Explain.
• Traffic-stopping window display!
• Retail Feng Shui… or Common Sense?
• Deja Vuesday: Different season, same solution.
• Open Here: Merchandising for Non-profit Thrift Stores
• Sarasota Marché
• Is it spring yet? It can be… in your shop windows!
• Win $25,000. Or $15,000. Or even (just) $10,000.
• Agree? Disagree? Explain.
• Some advice, including mine, on getting good reviews on your shop.
• Kiss a Resaler Today!
• Gently-used goods, gently-used good electrons: Maybe a match made in heaven for you?
• What does your shop specialize in?
• Untapped consignment or donation resource?
• Does the Internet overwhelm you?
• Clever! Camouflage… and focal point.
• Deja Vuesday: When it’s not NICE to be FAIR
• You aren’t letting 24 hours pass you by, are you?
• Spring swagger
• Functional Friday for Consignment, Resale & Thrift Professionals
• Nice rack.
• ODing on consignment, resale, and thrift info.
• 100 Years of Window Displays: What’s in YOURS today?
• Deja Vuesday: “I can’t seem to turn my consignors into shoppers!”
• Integrity of Price: “At some point, you look desperate.”
• Are most of your customers women? Do they support other women?
• Tips 4 thrift, resale, consignment shops
• Which mannequin for your shop?
• Turn your customers on. It’s good for your business.
• Deja Vuesday: Learning not to smack ‘em silly…no matter how much you might want to.
• What has 4 legs and whiskers? And whose name doesn’t start with C-O-P-Y?
• “Darn. She looks better in it than I ever did.”
• That 20% of customers you lose every year: Get them back
• Could your business card do more for your consignment, resale, or thrift shop? Probably.
• Online Oxfam: NFP with real staying power!
• Promotional Events for your Consignment, Resale, or Thrift Shop
• “Help new customers talk about you”
• Deja Vuesday: Where are your friends when you need ‘em?
• Hey, honey, put some MUSCLE into your consignment shop.
• We’re from the government. We’re here to help you.
• Kate among the missing…
• Help your competition be better.
• How about a display… wall?
• Deja Vuesday: Standing out in the Sea of Sameness
• Will your business remain green when you part ways?
• There was their first mistake: Why Sizes are So Unreliable!
• You have a right to brag.
• Cash mobs and future coupons…
• And we have a winner on HowToConsign.com!
• You don’t do windows? Or maybe you just HATE doing windows?
• Take me away from all this!
• Functional Friday for Consignment, Resale & Thrift Professionals
• Oops. Is Easter sneaking up on you?
• The Customer Is Always (Convinced That He’s) Right
• Dressing rooms: that’s where you’re making your money. Or not.
• Deja Vuesday: Is your shop a STORE or a STORAGE facility?
• How many business cards do you go through in a day?
• The higher gas goes, the better this promo will be!
• R U a specialized consignment, resale, or thrift shop?
• Just thought I’d share….
• Are you a practicing UPOD resaler?
• Deja Vuesday: Mudflap Moments and a 1968 Volvo.
• Consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers, hello!
• Writing Thank-you Notes: You CAN Do It!
• Picnik alternatives for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers.
• You aren’t making your own resale bad luck are you?
• What consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers thought…
• Husbands & daughters: Getting them in to your consignment shop
• Deja Vuesday: TMI can getcha.
• Adding hand-crafted items to your consignment shop: What they fear.
• “I like it. What is it?”
• Bored? Here’s how to ruin (yes, you read that right) your resale or consignment shop
• Oh no! I lost all my files!
• How many Earths does it take?
• Happy Earth Day. Just in case you forgot.
• Watch as we discover what Pinterest DOESN’T tell you!
• What goes with what?
• Deja Vuesday: Heaving ho? Nah. Use your mouse.
• Adding $6000 to her local economy: and that’s JUST the top 12 consignors!
• 2 Things consignment, resale, & thrifts would rather not see popping up
• Grandma bait & Prostitots. Such is the life of a childrenswear resaler.
• The officially unofficial pre-NARTS Conference get-together
• The Gap: A hot-to-not story of American retailing.
• Trench? Check. Striped T? Yup. A guide for consignment & resale groupies.
• Deja Vuesday: Is your consignment shop investing wisely?
• The fave price of consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers?
• Unclutter your life: 15 things to give up
• A little PINspiration for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers… and a gateway to many more
• Silver Bullets and Miracle Pills
• Zen for Resale Professionals
• What will your customers buy for Mother’s Day gifts?
• Deja Vuesday: Improving your SEO
• 2 Word of Mouth Stories that are super-useful for resale
• RE-inventing jewelry in your thrift, resale, consignment shop.
• Join over 5000 resalers to build your business
• If it weren’t for the mothers of the world…
• Kate’s Mailbag: Finding a unique source to fulfill customer needs
• To blog or not to blog. You’re the experts.
• Word of Mouth… get yourself in her purse!
• The ultimate silliness.
• Building your shop’s props room
• Volunteers: Need ‘em? Tell ‘em!
• Buy it today, it may not be here tomorrow.
• Deja Vuesday: The Lushness of Life
• What will YOUR customers buy for Father’s Day?
• St. Louis? Really?
• How would YOU use this idea?
• Consignment, resale, vintage, thrift: The New Cool