Posts Tagged Social Networking
Core Member Survey Results in Questions – What Booksellers Want!
Core Member Survey Results in Questions – What Booksellers Want!
When booksellers join SIBA, many of them, gratefully, answer the survey questions on the back of the paper dues invoice. The first question asks: What skills or knowledge is most needed among you and your staff?
And below is a list of resources that will hopefully assist you in many of the areas mentioned in this open-ended question. Enjoy and let me hear from you if you use a resource I have not mentioned here, and I will add it to the list. If enough people find this useful, I will make it a regularly updated page here on the website like Gifts Galore for Bookstores. Happy selling!
For ABA members, I found a ton of great resources on a variety of topics.
http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/2011/03/03/what-can-aba-do-for-me/
Website as Online Business Partner
Pre-Release Titles Information – 
Edelweiss
Indie Next Lists
Shelf Awareness Drop-In Titles
NPR
SIBA Listserve
Publisher Reps & Commission Reps
Publisher Catalogs
Wholesaler Catalogs
Publishers Weekly Book Reviews
BookPage Book Reviews
USA Today Books
LibraryThing
The Guardian
The New York Times
Bookwire New Releases
Southern Indie Bestseller List
New Local Interest Books – Try searching your local library for books of local interest.
Online Book Search Skills – Google it. Type in what you know at Google. Get results!
Marketing Ideas; Merchandising Tips; Display Ideas; Cheap, Effective Marketing
Good & Great Ideas
Paz Book Biz
Streetpoll
Wireless White Paper
Envirosell – signage/fixtures
Envirosell – Case Studies
Envirosell – Retail
Envirosell – Behind the Counter
Seth Godin’s Free Stuff
Computer Skills; Technology Education -
http://www.teachparentstech.org/
http://commoncraft.com/
Mashable
Author Information -
http://www.authorsroundthesouth.com/STARS/author.php
http://www.bookwire.com/authors/all_authors.html
Co-op Development -ABA’s ABACUS study shows that profitable booksellers spend much less on advertising than unprofitable booksellers. This does not necessarily mean profitable bookstores advertise less, but it does mean that they claim more co-op.
2011 Co-op At A Glance
http://www.pazbookbiz.com/Bookstore-Training-Consulting-Services/Customer-Newsletter.aspx
http://www.co-optimize.com/index.php
Online Advertising Tips; Social Networking Translating into Sales; How to Turn Facebook Fans into Cash
Facebook Fan?
Tips & Tool for Website Promotion
Examples of Online to Offline Campaigns
Selling Thru Facebook
Facebook Case Studies
Killer Facebook Fan Pages
Growing Fans
Guide to Facebook Ads
Twitter for Business
Twitter Case Studies
Not a big brand Twitter Case Study
25 Twitter Case Studies
Handselling Tips; Selling E-books
http://www.bookweb.org/education/member/handselling.html
Handselling Tips
E-Handselling
The Art of Handselling
Getting to YES
Advance Book Trend Information
Alltop – Top Book News
Trendwatching
Small Business Trends
Mashable
Accounting Strategies:
Strategy & Management Accounting
Small Business Administration
#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 is Around the Corner – Mark Your Calendar
Posted by Wanda in Uncategorized on August 9, 2010
#SIBA10 is Around the Corner – Mark Your Calendar
This year, the SIBA Trade Show is being held at sister indie properties that are side by side by the seaside. And it is predicted that the air will be filled with book-talk among the southern book industry elite. The most successful Southern Social Networking Summit Redux will be offered on Thursday. Linda Barrett-Knopp of Malaprops’ credits the summit for Malaprops’ finding its sweet spot. We are also expecting a host of bloggers so that booksellers can Get in Bed with a Blogger. Education, Publishers, and Authors, oh my! The ever popular Moveable Feast is back along with many SIBA favorites. New this year is the Tweet Up a Rep and the Technology Pavilion where anyone visiting the exhibits can stop and learn a new piece of technology that will help you sell more books. Twitter, Facebook and Ustream, oh my!
See it all here: http://www.tradeshow.sibaweb.com/schedule
New for 2010! SIBA has partnered with Above the Treeline, provider of the book industry’s digital catalog Edelweiss, to provide Books@SIBA, a digital companion to their upcoming fall 2010 trade show taking place in Daytona, Florida on September 24 – 26. Books@SIBA will provide attendees, interested booksellers, bloggers, and other book industry professionals with an online resource to browse, share, tag, and order titles being featured at this year’s show. See http://www.abovethetreeline.com/booksatsiba
Here is the registration form for the SIBA Trade Show – http://www.sibaweb.com/pdf/tradeshow/2010/2010regformA.pdf
Southern Social Networking Summit a HIT!
Posted by Wanda in Social Networking on January 8, 2010
I’m back from the Southern Social Networking Summit in Greenville, SC. It was an exhausting & exhilarating two days. I want you to know that I am busy compiling the results of everyone’s efforts. I have nearly 40 oversized pages of notes taken by the break-out groups that I am organizing and will be posting over the next week in this blog. So many people have written blog posts, posted videos & photos, twittered and facebooked, and I want to take the time to thank everyone. And I want to share these links with you. The video clips include testimonials and a word from Gary Vaynerchuk.
Video Clips (posted by Trey Pennington)
Photos (taken by Curtis Rogers from the SC State Library)
Lady Banks Bookshelf
