Tipsy Tuesday - Where to Start

It's Tipsy Tuesday! Since a lot of consignors are just getting started with tagging for the new sale season I wanted to catch you early on with these great tips when entering your items into the online system.


1. Organize your items - In my opinion, this is half the battle! Once you can organize your items by category (clothing, toys, shoes, etc) entering and tagging is a piece of cake! When organizing your clothing in particular, make sure you seperate them by gender and size. If you do this, you will breeze through the entering process online!

2. To Discount or Not to Discount? - By clicking the little box next the word "Discount" on the tag screen, you are agreeing to sell that item for 50% off on our Discount day. I strongly recommend taking advantage of this option. You would be amazed at the number of times shoppers come back to the sale over the weekend particularly on our first & last sale days! By discounting your are getting that last push to sell your item - you don't want to bring it home do you? If you are planning on donating, then it would silly NOT to discount! I see so many items being donated on Monday that would probably have sold if they had been discounted on Sunday. You aren't planning on picking your item up anyway, so you might as well try to sell it on Sunday.

3. Gather your tools - I have that includes packaging tape, tagging gun, barbs & blue painters tape. This along with cardstock is pretty much all I need to get my items tagged! I keep it in the same place so I know where to find it each season.  I might end up grabbing a few other things, but this is mostly all I need.

I find that the most efficient way to enter items is a little bit at a time. Most of my items are pre-organized b/c I do that as I am cleaning out the kids closet. When I start tagging I usually grab a bin/bag of clothing and bring it to my computer. My favorite time to tag is after the kids are in bed in front of the television. I enter the bag/bin, print the tags, and then attach them to the items! That's it! I am done! This way I can tackle as much or as little as I want at a time without getting confused on where the tags belong.

I could go on and on with more entering tips, but will save some additional suggestions for the next Tipsy Tuesday!