Posts Tagged Nicki
#SIBA11 Exhibitors – A Step By Step Guide to Making the Most of Your Money!
Posted by Wanda in SIBA Trade Shows on July 21, 2011
We are looking forward to seeing you in Charleston. We are in touch with all of the southern booksellers and they are excited to see you in Charleston as well. We want to help you make the most of your time before, during, and after the #SIBA11 Trade Show. We’ll start with BEFORE and we’ll do during, and after soon.
BEFORE –
- Visit www.tradeshow.sibaweb.com/exhibitors and look to the right to log in with your User Name & Password. If you don’t know your User Name & Password, email nicki@sibaweb.com and she can have it sent to you. Once logged in, you will see extensive instructions also to your right.
- Once logged in, you will be at Submit a Listing. This listing is used in the trade show directory (first 50 words), in emails to booksellers, and here on the SIBA Trade Show site. A good listing shares with booksellers why they should visit your booth. Offering a show discount of free shipping, or increased terms, a raffle, or the opportunity to meet an author are all good ways to interest booksellers in coming by the booth. So is individually wrapped candy, giveaways and announcements of new products or services.
- Once you save your listing, please go look at it and make sure it looks like you want it to look. If it does, then Tweet it with the provided Tweet button.
- Speaking of Tweeting, follow @SIndies and use #SIBA11 when talking all things fall & all things bookselling – Hundreds of booksellers follow & track these items on Twitter and you want to be part of the conversation.
- Encourage your authors who will be featured at #SIBA11 whether at the show in person or not, to follow and tweet about SIBA as well as share info on Facebook that we can support with our social networks.
- Share your participation at #SIBA11 on your Facebook page as well. I only learned today that if you have both a personal Facebook, and a few pages (SIBA hosts 3 facebook pages – http://www.facebook.com/ReaderMeetWriter, http://www.facebook.com/ClubRead, and http://www.facebook.com/SouthernIndependentBooksellersAlliance ) that you can go to the upper right hand corner, click on account, and choose Use Facebook as Page; and Friend or Like from that point of view. Who knew? Use these free tools.
- Email me wanda@sibaweb.com and let me know you & your author Twitter & Facebook accounts so we can support you thru our extensive social networking efforts to southern booksellers and the industry as a whole.
#SIBA10 Delivered at Every Level
Posted by Wanda in SIBA Trade Shows on October 29, 2010
It has been a month since SIBA and we have been very busy. First of all let me say I have been attending SIBA over 20 years. As owner & bookseller at B&L Books over 23 years, I also attend SIBA as an exhibitor of our inventory control software program, The UBIC System. SIBA 2010 was one of the best for both. As a bookseller, I learned a lot about social networking, blogging, and e-commerce. I also got some insight into hosting events in the store and how to tie all this together. The trade show offered some great opportunities for us to learn more about children's and young adult books and incentive discounts especially from Penguin. Their rep was on top of everything. At HarperCollins we grabbed onto the idea to have a story time ticket event for Scaredy-cat Splat, which we incorporated into our Customer Appreciation Day last Saturday. We provided cat-ear headbands and face painting along with a goody bag, activities, and story reading all for the price of the book. The kids loved it and we had a good time doing it. Later that same afternoon we had Roxanne St. Claire in for an author signing. As an exhibitor at SIBA 2010, we were very pleased with the traffic and the opportunity to spend time with interested parties. I am glad to see ABA offering a new membership for bookstores whose inventory is 75% used. There are many independents who sell both new and used books and we are hoping to see some seminars for independents like us in the near future. Thank you Wanda and Nicki and Matt for all you do to make SIBA so great. Jan Packwood B&L Books 990 N. State Road 434 #1140 Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 407 682-0090 jan@ubicsystem.com
#SIBA10 Rocks!
Posted by Wanda in Authors as Guest Bloggers on October 26, 2010
It’s been a couple weeks now since Daytona. That’s long enough to begin to process another well-oiled SIBA convention, compliments of Wanda, Nicki, and the rest of the incredible SIBA staff, but not long enough to make a dent in the towers of reading material stacked at my right hand. Don’t let this get out, but people at SIBA will hand you books free books! Never mind that you and your book loving self have books on top of books piled in heaps back at your home base, books you need to read, books you want to read, books you feel you need to read. Nothing compares to collecting a whole new crop of lovelies.
In the event that you have tripped across this blog without any prior understanding of who or what a SIBA is, let me fill you in. SIBA stands for Southern Independent Book Alliance and it’s a publishing industry event unlike any other. Think speed-dating for the book world and you will have the barest inkling to build on. In short, it’s where word addicts binge on their drug of choice, celebrating those who write books, those who sell books, and those who promote books. Here’s a confession: As a life-long reader I find it extremely difficult not to turn into a fan when surrounded by authors whose work I’ve come to love. I do my best not to fawn but I fear they see right through me.
As an author myself, I go to SIBA to build professional relationships with independent booksellers who do me the incredible honor of putting my book into the hands of their loyal clientele. I consider myself doubly blessed by those who extend their personal friendship as well.
I’ve been to three SIBA conventions now. My favorite was the first, second, and third.
Hugs,
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
Vimeo, CrushIt! & GaryVee — all excellent resources
Posted by Wanda in Social Networking on January 12, 2010
Crush It! with Gary Vaynerchuk from Nicki Leone on Vimeo.
Hear Gary Vaynerchuk on indies, silliness, social media, Web2.0, & more.
