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Kate's Kidswear Page Products for the Professional Resaler Especially helpful for Kids' shops: Focus: Kidswear is one of our new Focus reprint files. How to Compete with Garage Sales Get shoppers (and suppliers!) into your shop instead of losing business to garage sales. A PDF book directly from Kate to your computer. Customer Service Brochures Take-homes to remind a busy parent about your shop include How to Shop Resale for your Kids, Out Out Darned Spot, The Harried Shopper's Quickest Recipes, and Quick Recipes that Kids Love. The cheapest and most effective store give-away! Staffing your Store Tips to do it Well. Many kids' shops staff are mothers of young children, so it's especially important to deal with staff fairly, professionally, and with dedication and warmth. And try these Products for the Professional Resaler: Shop-Sizzle Easy. effective, economical ways to make your shop look as great as your selection. Especially important with the variety of merchandise in childrens' shops! 109 Promotion Ideas Especially for Resale. Special events are a sure way to draw families in. Get your shop's name out there: * GoCityKids is a site where parents can look up just about anything to do with their kids. That could include your shop. The site only covers specific cities, but if yours is among them, click on their FAQs to learn how your shop can get listed. They'll even link to you! Child-related activities, themes, clip art, recipes,  and more:   Crayola Central Kaboose Creative Kids at Home Coloring pages Silly jokes for kids and others Earnshaw's is a retailer/ manufacturer magazine from Canada. Great reading re trends, what's selling, more. ECute display idea. Notice how "full" it is...don't do it half-way! Need a Father's Day coloring page for your shop? Here's one. Don't forget to add your shop info to it before you make copies and hand it out as a little gift! Save it to your computer now; I'll offer another coloring page soon, if you like them! Need a maternity belly or hanger for display? Here it is A sign like this  will cost around $25-$40.  This one is from Emedco. Some Kid-Shop Sites Consumer safety: Govt recalls ALL recalls in one place Who'd have thought? Fun kids' activity pages from the US Patent Office! Coloring pages for use in your shop (observe any author rights on these!) More stuff than anyone could possibly want to know for kids and parents     No space for a play area? Possible solutions to keep kids occupied and out of the way: Put some of these GelGems on the bottom of a mirror, add a mini bean-bag chair, and you're set.     Reader suggestions for wholesale goods Remember, these are suggestions, not recommendations. Be sure you are comfortable with these vendors before committing a lot of money. Baby Legs No Slippy Hair Clippy Satin diaper bags Melissa and Doug (just contact info...) Bobux, & Jack and Lily : soft baby/toddler shoes. A FOCUS Product for the Professional Resaler FOCUS: Kidswear All three childrens' shop pamphlets together in one, easily downloaded Focus publication! Focus publications are specifically gathered to help you answer the pressing questions of every-day resale shopkeeping. Focus: Kidswear is a combination reprint of Short-Stop #13, Kids' Shop Merchandising; Short-Stop #14, Kids' Shop Promotions; and Used News #U6, Kidswear Shop Tips in one easy-to-read PDF file, delivered right to your e-mail box directly from Kate. If you don't already have, as a treasured part of your resale reference materials, Short- Stop Collection #2 and Used News, The Collection, these three pamphlets from the Collections, newly gathered into Focus: Kidswear, is an inexpensive way to learn how to make your childrenswear shop the best it can be! Once you try Focus: Kidswear , you will realize that every Product for the Professional Resaler can help your shop be all you dream it can be. We've even included one BONUS Kidswear idea especially for you. This single idea can be a shop-stopper...and business-popper...each and every year. It might even become a tradition in your town!   Click to buy Focus: Kidswear as a 17-page PDF , $8.99 at our Shop. Please note that Focus: Kidswear is a re-packaging of previously-published material, and you may already have this information. Reread this description before you order.