Plan Your Sale

Pick what days you want to have your sale.

• Holiday weekends can be tricky.  You can miss out on a lot of customers by having a sale on a holiday weekend.  Many people take the opportunity for a weekend get away when confronted with a 3 day weekend.
• More and more people are having sales on Friday & Saturday.  The statistics of stay at home parents and home-schooling coupled with Retired Residents are rising. Many so called "Early Birds" can be discouraged by a Friday Start.
• Sunday customers are often delayed due to church.  An abbreviated schedule on Sunday might maximize your sales without consuming all of your weekend.

Rain or Shine?

• Click on the link for the local weather forecast

Pricing.

• When selling more expensive items, plan ahead.  If the ultimate goal is to "Get it out of here", schedule a set time of day for price reductions, and make it known to all who inquire about those items.  This can help motivate a real buyer to buy it early while it’s still available.
• This strategy will also help encourage other interested parties to come back later in the day for a 2nd look at other items that might have been reduced.

Invite your neighbors to participate.

• By placing a flyer on the porch of your neighbors' home, you can invite them to your sale and participate by having one too.

Get the word out!

Place an ad in the local newspaper-

• Alameda Newspaper Group http://www.insidebayarea.com/advertise
• Contra Costa Times http://sellit.contracostatimes.com/listit/classifieds/
• Average price for a 3-4 day ad is $38.00

Signs-

• Place signs advertising your sale in high traffic areas.  Make smaller signs directing them turn by turn to your sale.

Tables.

• Borrow or rent tables to place your sale items on.  By presenting a well organized sale to passers by, you're letting them know that what you're selling is more valuable than junk in a box on the driveway.

Bags & Boxes

• By reusing your grocery shopping bags and empty boxes, you give your customers something to fill up and you are recycling too!

Or... Let us take some of the work out of it!

Our Garage Sale assistance program helps increase exposure of your sale and brings you more customers without spending so much of your sale profits.

• Pre-printed price tags
• Custom Signs
• Listing on Livermoregaragesale.com
• Use of our professional A-Frame street signs
• Shopping Bags
• And more...
• Would you like to Post a Sale?
• How does this work?