Resources for Managing Today's Bookstore Online Training

With these training videos, exercises, hand-outs, spreadsheets, and links, you will gain the information you need to manage your business and establish the foundations for the successful management of your retail bookstore.

OVERVIEW

Overview & Your Role as Manager

PEOPLE

Leading Our Staff

Scheduling & Payroll

Staff Schedule Template for manual scheduling

Online scheduling & payroll systems:

Training & Development

Bookstore Staff Meetings

No Materials

Place

Create planogram, scheduling 3 months of displays for one primary display space of your choice
Create shelf-talker template with your store’s logo and a write shelf- talker
Graph paper
Video: Bookstore Merchandising Made Easy – Length: 30 Minutes
Pinterest page: Bookstore Design & Display – www.pinterest.com/ pazbookbiz/

Products

Buying & Receiving

Handouts

Create Buying Budget using spreadsheet

Links

Above the Treeline – www.abovethetreeline.com/products/
Edelweiss for Publisher Catalogs – www.edelweiss.plus
Subscribe to these free newsletters:
Shelf-Awareness – www.shelf-awareness.com/booktrade.html
Publishers Weekly – www.publishersweekly.com

Inventory Management

Sales by Category Analysis

Promotion

Promoting Your Bookstore

Develop a marketing plan using the template provided

Marketing Plan – Template
Bookstore Press Kit – List of Contents
Donation Request – Template
Off-Site Events – Planning & Managing
Marketing Rate Card
How to become a – NYT Reporting Store
Book Subscription Programs – Shelf-Awareness article
Sample Bookstore Press Kits

Profitability

Exercise & Handouts

Enter your store’s data into the Bookstore Management Dashboard

Bookstore Management Dashboard