Kate's Recommendations

I've included here books and other products that I have found useful in resale, consignment, and thrift shopkeeping. 

The first thing everyone wants to know: Getting customers to come in... and buy! Any of Jay Conrad Levinson's books is worth reading with your highlighter in hand. You will find these innovative and sometimes wacky ideas particularly suited to our sometimes wacky industry!

Learning about the merchandise you sell The more you know about your products, the better you can serve both your buyers and suppliers. Consider the following your bedtime reading. Dip in, a little every night, and pretty soon, you'll be the Wiz of Resale!
Secondhand Chic by Christa Weil
Baby Bargains by Alan Fields
The Ultimate Guide to Shopping and Caring for Clothing by Stephen Boorstein

Best store layout/ retail knowledge book I've ever seen (especially if you didn't grow up in retail)
Judith Bell wrote Silent Selling some years ago; the illustrations may be dated but the info is A++. The newer, expensive version of the same book is Silent Selling. And there's an even-more-expensive version due out Spring 2006. Save your money, find the older version. 

The value of your business: The first is an old standby on buying/selling a business, while the 2nd is a more recently-written one by the same author. Business Valuation Manual  by Thomas W. Horn, and the newer version, Unlocking The Value Of Your Business.

How Full is your Bucket? is a book that Bonnie of Finders Keepers in the Atlanta area referenced for her great staffer buckets as seen by bus tourists at the NARTS Conference in 2006!

on an unsuspecting world. These, of course, you can, and should, buy here on this site.