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The Book: Starting & Running a Consignment Shop Business

"It doesn't matter if you're operating a craft shop or a home resale store operation, a profitable second-hand shop requires diligence. Bring expertise to your boutique, thrift store or resale business with this valuable guide! It is packed full of sample agreements, forms, contracts and selling tips."

Secrets of Success from Professionals!

Starting a Consignment Business is a compilation of input from several successful entrepreneurs in the consignment-resale-thrift business - (73) 8.5" x 11" pages of single-spaced no-fluff content - very few pictures - just bottom-line essentials assuring a good start in this competitive lucrative business.

How to Start a Consignment Shop

Learn all about how to start a resale business - start-up costs and necessities, computers, software and peripherals, how to choose a high traffic location and an effective name, requirements and forms of business, insurance, contractual agreements and store policies. The money you save in mistakes avoided and the peace of mind knowing you've crossed all the T's far exceed the Insignificant cost of this book many times over!

Operating a Resale Store

The guide also provides guidelines for how to run a resale business for both computerized and pencil/paper methods, including advertising and the many places to advertise for free online and off, setting the shop image and atmosphere, stocking, presenting, pricing and manually or disposition of unsold items (returned, donated, destroyed, transferred to store ownership).

Simple Resale Management Help

The guide discusses the importance of accepting credit cards and offers alternatives to avoid the high costs and frustrations of ordinary merchant accounts. Basic administrative tasks are explained, like bookkeeping and accounting basics. sales tax, legalities, payroll and general banking.

Consignment Operations and Automation

Specific recommendations are made for hardware and software, pricing labels and tags, bar coding, what equipment and supplies you'll need and the best sources for acquiring them. Software cost can range from a few hundred dollars to several thousand making the choice of software a very important consideration.

All of these how-to-consign topics are covered in detail in this comprehensive guide. It is based upon input from many seasoned pros who know the steps a shop owner must take to successfully open and run a thrift store, resale shop or secondhand boutique.