Look who WON a Spotlight Shop Web Page PLUS FREE Valued Sponsorship! And all they did was to tell us "How TGtbT helped my business succeed."   Here's what they won: 4 GRAND PRIZES A FREE year Sponsorship PLUS listing on our Clickable Map & Directory at HowToConsign.com PLUS  "Spotlight Shop": A web page all your own! Status at HowToConsign.com Our Grand Prize Winners are: (in no particular order!) Patricia Joyce, Oncore for Your Home Consignment Shop, Wilkes Barre PA Elizabeth Sowers, Mommy's Lil' Rascals, Manchester PA Sarah Deveau, Cater Tot Consignment, Airdrie, AB, Canada Kelly Wedehase, The Revolving Closet, Syracuse IN   And our 10 First Prizes of a FREE Sponsorship PLUS listing on HowToConsign.com became 14 First Prizes, because they were all so good! Our winners, all of whom appear on our Clickable Map & Directory,  are: Dottie Franklin, The Lily Pad, Perryville MO * Cathy Evans, SmartyPants~Teen Resale, DeMotte IN * Kerri Radicella, Childish Things Consignment, Boulder CO * Tracy Flamion, My Best Friend's Closet, Jasper IN * Jill Saenz, Boomerang Consignments & More, Port St.Lucie FL  Wish you'd entered the contest? Wish you'd felt more comfortable writing a few news-worthy paragraphs about your business? One of our Grand Prize winners, Sarah Deveau, is an expert on making the media love you. She's written a 7-page PDQ, Grabbing Their Attention: How to Make the Media Love You for TGtbT which is available for Pretty Darn Quick download in our TGtbT Products for the Professional Resaler Shop April Stankiewicz, Encore Apparel, McFarland WI * Aimee Stewart, Sweet Pea Boutique, Tooele UT  Mary Jo Compton, A Neat Boutique, Evansville IN * Patty and Kenny Hulce, The Wandering Wardrobe, Springville UT * Molly Boyles, Once Again Consignment, Roswell NM * Marriette Clayborne, Children's Closet Family Consignment, Battle Creek MI * Kim Hendrick and Nicky McGinnis, Wallabies Kids, Inc., New Port Richey FL  CG Logston, Changes in Athens Consignment Center, Athens, AL * Pam Sullivan, My Secret Closet, Inc, Hillsborough NC * The shops with stars, since they were already Treasured Sponsors of HTC, received double-value prizes: a full year of Treasured Sponsorship! A Contest Created and Sponsored by The White Elephant Cynthia Broockman (right, with her sister and business partner Leslie Broockman on the left) talks about our sister site, HowToConsign.com:       "There IS no other place to get your name out there in front of the public. [We're] a Treasured Sponsor at How to Consign and frequent user of TGTBT's site. We get lots of new subscribers every month and hits on our website are way up.     "For all those shopkeepers out there who wonder whether your products are really necessary or listing their business on How To Consign is really worth it, please tell them YES from us! In fact, your manual, products and creation/ maintenance of these two sites and the Sharing forum is responsible, in large part, for our business being what it is today. Almost 20 years from when we learned of you and what you are doing - we're still thriving. "In fact, my sister and I are so grateful and feel so strongly about supporting what you have been trying to do, we'd like to put our money where our mouths (and eyeballs on the net) are.  Is it possible for us to sponsor..." Many thanks to Cynthia for the idea of the contest, to Cynthia and Leslie for the funding, and to them, as well as to Deb Mathews of Designs by Deb Web Site Design, for helping judge the anonymous entries to our contest!