Great Ideas

Every great idea is worth copying. Here are some great store programs that bring in customers and fulfill the need to be a community center. When starting one of these programs, feel free to call the store and get details. Remember, they all started out small and built themselves into what you see here.

Some links to great store programs:

• Kid Camps
• Writing Workshops
• Literary Events
• Adult Classes
• Book Classes
• Combined book sales
• Signed First Editions Club
• Summer Camps
• Author Lunches
• Parties
• Baby Gift Registry
• Cooks with Books
• Pitchapalooza
• Signed Broadsides
• Workshops

Some pdf’s with program information:

• ARC Recycling
• Are You Locally Aligned?
• Author Confirmation Form
• Author/Editor Series
• Author Events: Turning Point or Tipping Point?
• Blockbuster Events
• Blurbs – a nice flyer from Simon & Schuster about how to do them
• Book & Movie Events
• Bookstore Tourism Event
• Coffee With a Bookseller (Warwick’s)
• Cool Ideas Reported by Shelf Awareness
• Consignment Form
• “Daunting Tasks” Store Display
• Embedded in Your Community – by Carla Cohen
• Labor Day Store Display
• Movable Feast Event
• Nonauthor events
• “Outside the Box” Events
• “Pick of the List” Event
• Quiz Bowl for Book Lovers
• Penguin’s Community Connections: Ideas to promote your bookstore
• The Bookworm in Edwards, Colorado has created a great piece promoting their store to publishers
• Traveling Book Club Trips