How did I get started? 

When I started my sale, there were over 60 established sales in the Middle Tennessee area within a 1 hour radius of Nashville. Each season, I participated in dozens of sales. As a stay at home mom, I felt the need to help contribute to the family budget. After participating in a few sales, I came up with a plan. That plan was reselling. I started visiting garage sales, picking up name brand children’s clothing and started reselling at the consignment sales. I did pretty well at this little endeavor, until I started figuring “if the sale has 150 consignors, and each consignor sells an average of $X amount of merchandise... 30% of that is…” and I was smacked in the face with the realization that this could very quickly add up to some serious cash that we could supplement our family budget with! 

I thought “I can do this! I should do this! How hard can it be?” And that’s where my journey began. From that point on, every time I participated in a sale, I was taking notes on what I saw, what I liked and what I didn’t like. I sold some "quality merchandise" on Ebay and scraped together $2000 for my start up budget. Then I jumped right in with both feet, not really knowing what to do, what to expect, how to market my sale, or how to attract customers and shoppers.  I was very fortunate to find very successful sale owners who were willing to mentor me.  They helped fill in the gaps with information I didn't have.  I want to do the same for you.  The business plan I have developed is a combination of all of the wonderful advice I have been given as well as my own personal trial and errors.  My hope is that you will be able to draw from my experience and be able to be a few steps ahead of the learning curve.