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Marshall Fields: Give the Lady What She Wants!

By John Kremer on Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 | Comments Off

One day, while walking through his store, Marshall Fields saw a clerk arguing with a customer. “What are you doing?” he asked. “I’m settling a complaint,” the clerk replied. “No, you’re not,” Field corrected. “Give the lady what she wants.” And that became the store’s motto. Are you giving your customers what they want? If [...]

Reading Is Cool Again!

By John Kremer on Thursday, April 5th, 2012 | Comments Off

“Reading has become cool again, and more people are interested. “The challenge is getting them into your store to buy an actual book.” – Emily Gatlin of Reed’s Gum Tree Bookstore in Tupelo, Mississippi Related Posts:Mississippi Independent Bookstores: A Great Panel

25 Things Booksellers Learn from Opening an Independent Bookstore

By John Kremer on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 | Comments Off

J L Sathre wrote a wonderful article on Salon.com about her experience in opening a bookstore: 25 Things I Learned from Opening a Bookstore: http://open.salon.com/blog/jlsathre/2012/01/11/25_things_i_learned_from_opening_a_bookstore. Here are a few of her points that might be useful to other booksellers and book authors (as rewritten by me with some commentary). 1. You can get cheap bookshelves [...]

Take the One Book Pledge – and Save Indie Booksellers

By John Kremer on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 | Comments Off

Bookshop Santa Cruz started up a campaign to get book buyers to buy just one more book a month from local independent bookstores rather than from Amazon.com or other online retailers. Send us your name and we’ll add you to our growing list of people who recognize the importance of independent bookstores to the health [...]