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Products to Help your Consignment,
Resale or Thrift Shop THRIVE: It's not a pipe dream,
having a gently-used shop that makes you rich. Everything to keep your
resale, consignment or thrift shop thriving is here from Too Good to be
Threw's Products for the Professional Resaler.
What
a PDQ is, shipping, and more. See all our Products at
once.
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Is it time for your
consignment shop to start buying outright?
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Gross profits of up to 90%?
Yes. With smart buying of merchandise to resell. Read all about:
Buying Outright...is it for me?
Should I start my shop as a Buy-Outright?
How do I learn to buy outright?
How much should I pay?
How can I switch from consigning to buying?
Maintaining and Managing my Open-to-Buy
Face-to-Face with your Seller
How do other shopkeepers do it?
And there's more than just
profits to be made...reap the hidden benefits!
The BIG Book of Buying Outright (PDQ
only, 44 pages) What's a PDQ?
Want more customers and
suppliers? Get them for less than the price of a latte a week
when your shop's on the Clickable Map & Directory at
HowToConsign.com
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THRIVE
in the resale industry...thousands are!
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Shop Sizzle
"Selling the sizzle" makes your merchandise more tempting. Simple, quick, and useful for shops of all types and budgets.
10 topics: Showcases: Make them magnetic! Dressing Rooms: More than just a place to change
The Simplest Windows: Done in a flash, flashily! Customer Welcome
Areas: Entry, sitting areas, play areas Mannequins, 2ways and
4ways: Stop traffic in its tracks Accessories: Build profits with presentation
Swing Shops: Tempting them with what they want to buy Shelving, counters, tables and
more: Displays that sell These Four Walls: Turning them into sales tools
Holiday decor: Making your shop special
Available as a PDQ $24
or Buy it hard-copy
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Secrets
of Successful Resalers
Including 9
"Million Dollar" Ideas
Resale Secrets about
◙ Store layout
◙ Dressing rooms
◙ Free (or nearly so) window displays
◙ Making it easy on your customer
◙ Making it easy on your supplier
◙ Freshening up stock
◙ Tooting your own horn
◙ Giving customers more than they expect
◙ Cleaning around your store
◙ Additional services
◙ Increasing your profitability
◙ Learning more secrets!
Available as a
PDQ $5.95
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How to
Make More Money
Making more money is easy.
All you have to do is sell more, then keep more.
Then decide:
expand? Move? Improve? What to do during the slow season?
How to set
priorities?
If you could use a starting point for your journey to financial success in
your business, this is what you're looking for.
Available as a PDQ $21.95 or Buy it hard-copy
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Products for
the Professional Resaler
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Business Valuation Kit Examining
your worth is a way to track progress. If your business is
worth more today than it was last year, you're growing. Take a look at your business
the way a financial advisor would, in private and without costly
consultation fees! The Business Valuation Kit
has three parts: a fill-in-the-blanks
form designed to guide your financial decisions and to
introduce the concept
of valuing your business. After you try this valuation, you'll be
much more comfortable learning more detailed aspects of valuation. Also
included is Selling
your Shop and Buying a Resale Business
for more ways to look at the financial attributes you have
developed.
Available as a
PDQ $10.99
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Resalers' Resource List:
Your Employee Handbook This list of
Internet resources will guide you in creating your Employee Handbook, where
you can formalize your expectations for your employees and what they can
expect from you. An employee handbook covers such things as perks, hours,
business mission and professional deportment. An Employee Handbook is not
a store policies handbook nor a job description resource, which future
Products for the Professional Resaler will address,
Available as a
PDQ $6.99
NOTE: This Product is free, upon request, to all current Treasured Sponsors
of our consumer site, HowToConsign.com.
Please email us directly
for your complimentary copy.
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Team Work: Staffing your Store We
took the out-of-print Staffing your Store, we added triple the information you
need to run a shop with the help of staffers or volunteers, and we made it all
easily-accessible and easy to implement. 34 pages of information for the
new-to-being Boss to the old pro who wonders why the shop's employees are not as
thrilled to be at work ... nor as productive... as she is. If
there's ever anyone helping in your shop besides you...this book will help them,
you, and your business become better!
Available as a
PDQ $18.99
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TGtbT.com:
"The difference between most resalers and you? You're here to learn!" |
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More Freedom, More Profit
Not everything needs to be disposed of
when it's been on your selling floor long enough. Learn how putting unsold
items aside for another season or another use is a surefire way to
increase customer satisfaction as well as shop profits. When, what, and
how to pull for pakaway; what to donate instead of save; how to store and
when to reintroduce them to your merchandise mix. Complete discussion in 6
pages that can help you double your profit margins in a matter of months!
Available as a
PDQ $5.99
If
you have the no-longer-available Short-Stops Collection 4 in
your business library, you already have this valuable
information as Short-Stop #36.
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HowToConsign.com is #1 on Google Search!
If your shop is not on the #1 Google-ranked
Consignment and Resale Directory, you're losing potential clients every hour of
every day.
HowToConsign.com PRE-educates your future
clientele for you, raises the profile AND the reputation of secondhand in your
community, and serves as an "outside expert" explaining to your
suppliers the necessary qualifications for bringing items in.
Learn
more.
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10 Simple
Low-
or No-Cost Ways
to make
$10,000 more a year
These ideas were originally
gathered for shopkeepers who felt they couldn’t afford
the annual NARTS conferences.
I wanted to show how easy it can be to make “extra” profit. And
cutting waste makes more money too.
I focused on making only $100 more per month because about
$1200 is what is needed to attend Conference.
Build on these $100 more a month ideas,
use them consistently and develop them, and you will make $10,000 more a
year!
If your
shop is not supporting you in the style you'd like...
you need these 10 Ways!
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The Picker Who Perished
A TGtbT Consignment Shop Mystery
Wendy Sam Miller is on the job...
the consignment shop owner job, that is! Can she convince the police
that the death of her friend and picker for her shop was murder not
accident? Can she resist the charms of Detective Tom Litwin? Does she
even want to? And can she
persuade her young helper Annie that a micro-mini is not the best thing
to wear when dusting high shelves in the shop?
Read more about The Picker Who Perished, including how to use this unique
mystery novel in your shop for a unique promotion!
Available as hard-copy only $6.95
Wholesale pricing available
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How to have a Frightfully Good
Halloween and Build your Costume Business Year-Round
Help them get it all together Costume Ideas
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Get them in the mood Decorating fantastically!
Using Halloween to Build Traffic
Halloween Activities
Dress-up Trunks Fantasy: never out of season
Build a year-round costume business
Collecting costumes
Buying outright to gather costumes
Silly Halloween Riddles For the kid in you or for the kid in your shop. These make fun "Halloween Fortune" handouts too!
Available as a
PDQ $7.99
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