{"id":10488,"date":"2011-01-14T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10488"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:50:51","slug":"sock-hop-socks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10488","title":{"rendered":"Sock Hop Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Latvian Wedding Socks from Red Bird Knits<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I was talking to a store today and the owner asked me how she could reduce her pattern inventory. Anyway, I put my thinking cap on and came up with a few strategies.<\/p>\n

Here is the first idea. You could group patterns and create a themed event around them. For example, let’s say that you have a lot of sock patterns that you would like to see fly or “dance” out the door. How about staging an old fashioned “Sock Hop.” <\/p>\n

\n1. Have customers get dressed up in 50’s garb, with “bobby” socks or better still with socks that they have knit. You may even want to “plant” a few people with socks on of patterns that you would like to reduce.<\/p>\n

2. To limit the excitement, not to mention the noise, you could make this a “flash” event – maybe a few half hours during the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Winter Dreams from Red Bird Knits<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

3. Serve cherry coke. Have a disc jockey to get it all going. Take lots of pictures and put them up on Twitter and Facebook. Borrow a vintage turn table and some LPs. Have prizes. (spot dances) Link it to a good cause, perhaps and have all your sock patterns front & centre.  Give the patterns away as prizes. Have a mini sock fashion show. Have a chorus line – anything that will hype up the need to knit socks.<\/p>\n

4. Book our trunk show of Red Bird Knits socks for some added interest and kick up a storm!<\/p>\n

Please let me know if this works for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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