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Too Good to be Threw presents the how to’s, ideas, tips, and education a consignment or resale shop owner or manager or thrift store operator needs to profit and make their shop a success.
Starting a consignment shop ideas, ways to make your job easily and your shop more professional on a budget, money-making tips, where to order store supplies, consignment shop software, and fun promotional ideas, great ads, and so much more here on
Too Good to be Threw, including our Products for the Professional Resaler, Too Good to be Threw The Complete Operations Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops and even The Picker Who Perished, a consignment shop mystery novel!

Hard to believe it's been 20 years since the very first version of Too Good to be Threw, The Complete Operations Manual. This 20th Anniversary Edition marks the 8th (or is it the 9th?) edition as I have constantly updated, embellished, and added helpful material to the Manual. Countless resale shopkeepers, both owners and managers, make their shops better, more profitable, and tons more fun to run with "the resale bible"! Read about the newest edition. What real shopkeepers think of TGtbT.	The consumer-oriented web site, HowToConsign.com is a treasure trove of info for YOUR suppliers and customers. HowToConsign will PRE-educate your suppliers and buyers. Be a part of HTC today.	Our little jester will take you to a fun page. The page will change every so often. Click him and see where he'll take you today!
Join Kate for lunch at our Luncheonette. A nice selection of quick and simple PDQ files from TGtbT Products for the Professional Resaler to give you a little boost... and they are less than the cost of a grilled cheese. At this price (and the fact that they are no-cal), you can have the whole menu! 101 Daily Tips for a Better Shop Resale's Cheapest Tricks & Best Buys 13 Ways to Make your Resale Shop Thrive The Top 21 Merchandising Tips for Resalers and more in our Luncheonette!	Resale Best Seller These 10 simple low- or no-cost ways to increase your shop's profits started life as monthly ideas that any shop, with any budget, could implement. They proved so popular and easy to use that they're now gathered into a booklet. The $10,000 figure? That's the LEAST these little $100-a-month ideas, used for a year, add up to! Order it today.	One of our favorite "fans" of TGtbT.com, and a Treasured Sponsor of HowToConsign.com, is Cynthia Broockman of The White Elephant in Virginia. She's prepared Hot Tips and Tricks, a 7-page PDQ with her greatest suggestions for your shop. Cynthia has donated this helpful resource to TGtbT.com. *You can get it as a FREE GIFT with your donation to our site-related expenses here.*
As if Kate didn't have enough places to tell you interesting things about the resale industry and how to make your shop better and better, now she has a blog.	Start a Shop page is useful if you're considering resale as a profession. If you're a shopkeeper who's constantly asked to "tell me everything you know" by strangers, print the page out and hand it to them so you can get back to work without seeming rude.	Going to NARTS Conference 2008 in June? TGtbT is sponsoring and Kate is leading a very special event for those arriving early in Indianapolis: Window Walk! Don't miss it...It's gonna be a blast!
Got questions? Should prices show in my showcases, and of what possible use is an entry space in my shop? We cover questions like this in Shop Sizzle: The Collection. How do I write a business plan? Prepare my shop for sale? Stand out from the competition? Make more space? 40 in-depth topics are in our Short-Stop Collections How can I get reporters to write a story on my shop? How can I give the impression of a more spacious, less-crowded layout? How can "telling a story" build my average sale? These topics and dozens more are in The Best of Too Good to be Threw. I could go on and on, but you get the idea... help is just a click away at our Products for the Professional Resaler! Our current Special Offers save you money while MAKING you money!	Over at HowToConsign.com, there's a new feature called Kate's Chatter and also over there, see a new slide show about how wonderful shopping resale can be! (Now don't you wish you could be on our Clickable Map & Directory?)	Planning a promo event in your shop? Need some nibbles? Wendy Sam's recipes from Kate's Consignment Mystery Novel, The Picker Who Perished, would work. Find out how to use this unique product to make YOUR business better.

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