Great Ideas

Links to great store programs and ideas:

• Owners discuss strategic store closings
• Seasoned Booksellers share their best moves and biggest mistakes in their early years/2021
• A Year of Profitability/ ABA 2018
• Ideas for Successful Events from Odyssey Bookshop
• Event Planning Timeline Checklist
• Posting Reviews on Edelweiss
• Using Color in Your Bookstore (on SCRIBD)
• Coffee With a Bookseller (Warwick's)
• Summer Camps
• Signed Broadsides
• Email List Maintenance
• Bookselling Job Description Templates

PDFs with program information:

• ARC Recycling
• Author/Editor Series
• Bookstore Tourism Event
• Sample Consignment Form
• Easy Ways To Jump Start Your Business-to-Business Program
• Efficiency Translated for Bookstores workshop from 2011 Fall Conference
• Embedded in Your Community - by Carla Cohen
• Magic the Gathering Tournaments - from Novel Places
• Movable Feast Event
• "Outside the Box" Events
• "Pick of the List" Event
• Quiz Bowl for Book Lovers
• Penguin's Community Connections: Ideas to promote your bookstore
• Read and Review - a no cost program for children's booksellers

Interesting articles:

• Seven Habits of Successful Bookstore Owners
• Amanda Jones Will Not Be Silenced: The librarian, anti-censorship advocate, and debut author weighs in on the threat posed by book banners today.