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Products to BUILD your Consignment,
Resale or Thrift Shop: Whether you're still
looking for how to open a consignment or resale shop, or whether you're
starting to truly build your business, our Products can help! The specific
Products for the Professional Resaler on this page get your shop
on the fast track to success!
What
a PDQ is, shipping, and more. See all our Products at
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Your FIRST and
FOREVER Source: Too Good to be Threw
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The definitive how-to for the resale, consignment, and thrift
industry.
Used by many thousands of successful shops in the Americas, Europe, Asia and
Australia.
Written by double-award winning consignment
expert Kate Holmes,
this is the "industry bible" as many
shopkeepers call it. Learn More
If you're not
running your business every day profitably, with ease and joyfully...
you need this book!
Non-US addresses please
follow this link to have your manual delivered.
Read about:
Getting started: Do I have what it takes?
Choosing a location, lease, name: Hidden pitfalls
Your consignment agreement and your "How-to" handout
Arranging your categories
Keeping track of
merchandise
Promos, advertising, marketing and selling
Financial bookwork
Finding and training staff
Clearance sales, pakaways, and more!
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Build your Business
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499 Names for
your Resale Shop
Just can't think of the perfect name for your shop?
Here's a compendium of names, some great, some fabulous...Get your
highlighter out; you'll have your name in no time flat! There's
actually more than 499. Also great for name changes,
developing a tag line, naming a
second shop, a department within your growing store or for naming your new outlet store.
Available as a PDQ only $4.99
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Money-Wise Guide
to
Accepting & Pricing
Accepting Merchandise with Greater Ease * “But I do it differently!” *
Quicken the check-in process * Designing your check-in counter * How to
Say“No”...and mean it * 10 Quick and Easy Refusals * “How can I cope with no-thank-you's and still have my suppliers happy?”
* “How many items to accept and methods for getting items on the floor efficiently.”
* “How do you take unlimited quantities?” * Cope with no-thank-you's and keep suppliers happy
* Give yourself a break in your intake * How to Price* Making your Goods Worth More
* Developing an Instinct for Pricing * Pricing: the Fine Art! * Formula for Pricing
This booklet earns back its price
instantly.
Available as a
PDQ $19.95 or Buy it hard-copy
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SHOW it to SELL
it
Add perceived value to your goods with the proper display
and merchandising. Make 50%, 60%, even more on every item! 10 Cardinal
Rules of Window Displays, answers to problem windows, big windows, little
windows, even the window you might forget you have. Examples from real
stores, in full color.
Available as a PDQ only $9.95
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Products for
the Professional Resaler
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Windows that Sell !
Are your windows tempting
passers-by or hindering your success? How do you create a window that sells?
9 chapters including 77 Suggestions for Super Windows you and your
window dressers will refer
to again and again.
Available as a
PDQ $5.95 or Buy it hard-copy
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The Essential Guide to
Using ALL Your Space
The most common complaint
resale shoppers have about their favorite shop? "It's so
crowded!" Crowding merchandise into your shop actually cuts down on
sales. Includes The Convertible Dressing Room, TGtbT's SPAN Plan, and more
Available as a
PDQ $9.95 or Buy it hard-copy
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Words that Sell
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Write an ad that will
motivate them to buy, handouts that work and direct mail that brings them
in! Do your email subject lines stand out? Do you motivate your readers? 9 chapters include 65 Ad-Starters to get you thinking creatively
about your business. Available as a
PDQ $5.95
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TGtbT.com:
"Making Sure your Shop Builds from a Base of Knowledge" |
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Others
have chosen these Layout Idea Kits:
Drop & Run :
The Most Important Improvement You Can Make This time- and stress-saving system will free you up and please time-challenged suppliers.
Sales Counter Forms Layouts PLUS 10 Instant In-Store Signs
See all
our Layout Idea Kits
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Display Ideas from
A to Z
When it's time to do a
SPECTACULAR window...need an idea or two? How about a whole alphabet's
worth? Great companion piece to Windows That Sell to
build your treasure trove of display ideas.
Available as a
PDQ only $5.95
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KidBIz: It's NOT
Child's Play
Just because the merchandise
is small and cute is no reason profits can't be big and serious. Designed as a
companion piece to the Manual, for those interested in having a
family-merchandise or children's-only shop. See what's in this Product on our Kids
Page.
Available as a
PDQ only $19.95
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