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Products for The Professional Resaler Our Products are designed specifically to help you improve your business. Your purchases also make the free material on TGtbT possible.  Talk about win-win! With over 60 items, there's lots here at Too Good to be Threw to lead to your resale success! Lots of help in the left<<< sidebar. Including What are PDQs Anyway? and How much is shipping? Shipping costs are added to hard-copy Products only, not to PDQ files.  If you order hard-copy Products to be mailed to a non-US address please be sure to click the proper surcharge button so your order is not delayed.  This means the Product is available as a PDQ file. Not everything is. What's a PDQ?  And this means the Product is available as hard copy mailed to you. Not everything is!  The magnifying glass leads you to an explanation about the Product.  Our newest Products are Conversations with Kate: Your Employee Manual  and  Grabbing their Attention    This adds the item to your shopping cart and shows you your order. (Use your browser's BACK button to continue shopping.) You can remove things from your shopping cart if need be, so click away to gather up all you need to make your shop a success. Other ordering options More Products for the Professional Resaler on Page 2 and Layout Idea Kits, plus the Luncheonette, where our Mini-Products are good as sitting down for lunch with Kate, and then there's our Special Offer Page!   Hot Tips and Tricks: FREE as a thank-you when you donate to this site. Quick Find Index Products for the Professional Resaler Select one of our Products Too Good to be Threw: The Complete Operations Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops Make the Media Love You 499 Names for your Resale Shop Secrets of Successful Resalers 109 Promotion Ideas Especially for Resale Windows that Sell, Words that Sell,Staffing your Store Short-Stops: 40 Specific Solutions to Resale Challenges 10 Low- or No-Cost Ways to make $10,000 MORE a year The Best of Too Good to be Threw: 46 Articles Used News Shop Sizzle Bag Sales, Dollar Racks & BOGO Deals 12 Ways to Beat Garage Sales Business Valuation Kit Drop-&-Run: The BEST Thing you can do for your shop! FOCUS: Home Furnishings, Kidswear, & Buying Outright Reprints Layout Idea Kits The Picker Who Perished: A Too Good to be Threw Consignment Shop Mystery Lunch with Kate: Blue-Plate Special Mini-Products   Too Good to be Threw: The Complete Operations Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops 20th Anniversary Edition Written by a real-life consignment shopkeeper with 4 decades of experience, the Manual has everything you need to succeed in the Real World of Resale. The 2008 edition for our 20th Anniversary now includes more than ever!   Read all about the newly-revised 20th Anniversary Edition. The Manual is only available as hard copy.   Too Good to be Threw: The Complete Operations Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops, $76.95  Conversations with Kate: Your Employee Manual Why you should have one, what to include and what not to, and loys of links to Internet resources that will help you develop, and maintain, your employee policies and procedures handbook.  Available as PDQ file     Conversations with Kate: Your Employee Manual, $4.99   Used News The most asked-for topics by resale shop owners and managers. 10 topics, also from the no-longer-available TGtbT Resale Industry Newsletter. Available as PDQ file or as hard copy   Click to see all 10 topics Used News as hard copy, $26.00 Used News as PDQ file, $24.00     The Best of Too Good to be Threw 46 of the most sought-after articles from the no-longer published  Newsletter.  Available as PDQ file     Click to see some of the article titles The Best of Too Good to be Threw as hard copy not currently available The Best of Too Good to be Threw as PDQ file, $17.95     If you are ordering hard-copy Products to be mailed to an address that is not in the US, please  add the proper surcharge. The buttons for these are at the bottom of this page. 499 Names for your Resale Shop Just can't think of the perfect name for your shop? Here's a compendium of names, some great, some fabulous...    499 Names is available only as a PDQ file. 499 Names for your Resale Shop as a PDQ file , $4.99 10 Simple Low- or No-Cost Ways to make $10,000 more a year in your Resale Shop  It's not difficult to earn, or save, “extra” profit. And when you do both, you'll prosper faster than you ever dreamed possible! Kate gets you started  with 10 simple ideas that call for little or no monetary investment.     Available only as a PDQ file.   10 Simple Way to make $10,000 more a year as a PDQ file , $9.99   Click if ordering hard copies delivered via mail outside the US Lots of help in the left<<< sidebar. Including What are PDQs Anyway? and How much is shipping? The Solutions for Small Business Series: This series of general retail topics is written with the resale industry in mind. Available as PDQ file or as hard copy .    Windows that Sell! as hard copy, $6.95 Windows that Sell! as PDQ file, $5.95   Words that Sell! as hard copy, $6.95 Words that Sell!  as PDQ file, $5.95 Secrets of Successful Resalers as hard copy, not currently available Secrets of Successful Resalers as PDQ file, $5.95   109 Promotion Ideas Especially for Resale as hard copy, $6.95 109 Promotion Ideas Especially for Resale as PDQ file, $5.95 Staffing Your Store: Tips to Do it Well as hard copy, not currently available Staffing Your Store: Tips to Do it Well as PDQ file, $5.95 If you are ordering hard-copy Products to be mailed to an address that is not in the US, please add the proper surcharge. The buttons for these are at the bottom of this Shop page. Short-Stops: Easy Solutions to Resale Challenges All Short-Stop Collections contain 10 topics on a variety of issues, and together, they expand upon and add to the Manual. Some of the topics are included in other Products, such as our FOCUS Special Interest Products. Short-Stop Collections are available as PDQ file or as hard copy .    Click to see which ten topics are in each of the 4 Collections Short-Stops Collection 1 in hard copy, $26.00 Short-Stops Collection 1 as PDQ file, $24.00   Short-Stops Collection 2 in hard copy not currently available Short-Stops Collection 2 as PDQ file, $24.00   Short-Stops Collection 3 in hard copy not currently available Short-Stops Collection 3 as PDQ file, $24.00    Short-Stops Collection 4 in hard copy, $26.00 LIMITED SUPPLIES: ORDER SOON! Short-Stops Collection 4 as PDQ file, $24.00  Lots of help in the left<<< sidebar. Including What are PDQs Anyway? and How much is shipping? Shop Sizzle Make your shop sizzle with innovative, inexpensive tactics. "Sell the sizzle" by making your merchandise more tempting. Available as PDQ file or as hard copy   Click to see all 10 topics Shop Sizzle as hard copy, $26.00 Shop Sizzle as PDQ file, $24.00 The Picker Who Perished  A Too Good to be Threw Consignment Shop Mystery It's the world's only murder mystery set in the world of consignment shopkeeping. For yourself or a valued customer, as a door prize or as a unique product for sale in your shop, Kate's mystery will be enjoyed by any reader. Only available as hard copy.   Also available wholesale. The Picker Who Perished  A Too Good to be Threw Consignment Shop Mystery in hard copy, Friends-&-Family discount $9.95 Grabbing Their Attention: How to Make the Media Love You A Too Good to be Threw Product for the Professional Resaler written by Sarah Deveau of Cater Tot Consignment. Getting on television and radio as a guest is the ultimate validation of your business and an incredible business- and reputation-booster which cannot be bought at any price. It can be done, however, for virtually free following Sarah's advice! A 7-page PDQ file. Grabbing Their Attention is available only as a PDQ. Grabbing Their Attention: How to Make the Media Love You, $4.99   Our Products continue on Page 2 and our industry-renowned Layout Kits are here! Drop in at the Luncheonette, where our Mini-Products are like sitting down for lunch with Kate, and check out our Special Offer Page!     Ordering hard-copy items to be mailed to a non-US address? If you have ordered hard-copy items to be mailed to Canada, click to add a $3 surcharge for delivery.   If your delivery address for hard-copy items is elsewhere (not the US, not Canada) a $15 surcharge applies. Please click to add.   Join Kate for lunch at our Luncheonette! A nice selection of quick and simple PDQ files from TGtbT Products for the Professional Resaler to give you a little boost... and they are each only $2.29... or less than the cost of a grilled cheese. At this price (and the fact that they are no-cal), you can have the whole menu!