Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Want Your Own Free Classifieds? Hold a Garage Sale!

Don't just put everything out randomly. Ideally, you don't want people moving things around on their own; you don’t want people left to their own devices making a mess of your system. If you can keep people from rummaging about, in, and underneath your carefully organized displays, you will save yourself many reorganizing headaches later.


• Beg, borrow, or ‘steal’ trestle tables so you can display items carefully and in full sight of prospective buyers.
• Use old Hills Hoist and coat hangers to display clothes.
• Group items by price. Again, check out free online classifieds to see how different items are normally priced according to model, integrity, slightly-used ness, rarity, etc.
• When pricing, give yourself some leeway of a few dollars. That way, hagglers will feel they got a bargain.
• Display books with their front covers or spines showing for easy recognition.
• Divide tables into areas for different price ranges and put signs up letting people know what and where the items are.
• The arrangement should make it easier for your customers to find what they need, and what they want. Be sure to put like things together and give people enough space to move around freely.
• Let your kids be entrepreneurs too and have them sell their own stuff. Set up a separate table for them. You’ll probably find they will do a lot better than you will.
• At the end of the tables, prior to walking out with the goods, have a vigilant cashier who'll bag the items and take the cash. This will prevent items from being shoplifted.

Friday, November 10, 2006

How To Accelerate Your Business Success

Your business. It’s your reverie and your obsession. And maybe you’re thinking it’ll be just as trouble-free to produce accomplishment as Kevin Costner makes it look in the movie, Field of Dreams. His come near? 'Build it and they will come.'

But if you build it and don’t know how to contribute to your dreams with the world, it’s doubtful you’ll attract the customers you’ll need to remain your dream alive. Your accomplishment depends on a methodical come within reach of to getting CUSTOMERS.

A map will focal point your efforts and make available the blueprint for enormous action. And you must take immense action in order to get what you want. Every book, tape, CD, manual, and course that you have invested in is useless unless you take massive action and execute your marketing plan.

Think about it. How many times have you had a great plan and failed to follow through with it? Right now you in all probability know of at least one tip, idea, or approach that will increase your earning probable. So what’s stopping you from using that tactic to maximize your profits?
The reason people not succeed to achieve their goals is not because of a be deficient in of resources or information. The basis people fall short is because they fail to take action. Can you recount?