Sarah Pekkanen will be one of our Retreat's featured authors. Come meet her!

for NAIBA's 2-Day Beach Retreat for Destination Stores

 

Sunday & Monday, February 23 & 24, 2014

Sunday, 2 pm - Retreat begins at BookTowne

171 Main St, Manasquan, NJ 08736

(732) 722-7255

 

•  Demographics & Economic Trends
• Cash Flow
• Staffing
• Locals vs. Visitors
• Inventory Off-Season vs. Inventory In-Season
• Events
• Marketing to Seasonal Customers: In & Out of Season
• Working with Other Businesses

 

We will dine together, stay at a lovely B&B in Spring Lake, have breakfast on Monday and continue our discussion.

  

We'll get to know some fabulous authors of the books we'll be selling this summer:

Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse (First Second Books)

Sarah Pekkanen, Catching Air (Atria Books)

 

Thursday, March 13

10am - 4pm

at Random House

1745 Broadway at 56th Street

 

A day for frontline booksellers to learn about the profession of bookselling and the many jobs and rewards it has to offer. The agenda will cover: Structure & Finances of Bookselling; Who's Who in the Industry and what we do to together to sell books; Jobs in Bookstores; How To Stand Out; Best Practices. We'll share resources and quirky industry jargon.

 

Opening Keynote Speaker: Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, co-owner, Greenlight Books, Brooklyn, NY.

 

There will be four authors featured at lunch as well.

 

Registration is free! This is an investment in our business!

Call now (516-333-0681) to save a seat. Or email naibabooksellers@gmail.com

 

The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies will be hosting a free webinar on the findings of the Independent Business Survey, a post-holiday survey of 2,602 independent business owners across the U.S., which was released last week. The webinar "Measuring Local First: Results From the Annual ILSR Independent Business Survey" will take place on Tuesday, February 18, at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET. Registration is now open, but space is limited and is expected to fill up fast.

  

Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) will lead the webinar, which will look at the survey results and discuss ways that business owners and other indie advocates can use the findings to build localism in their communities. More than 75 percent of survey respondents who are located in cities with active Local First campaigns reported increased customer traffic or other benefits from these initiatives, as well as sales growth of 7 percent on average in 2013, compared to 2.3 percent for independent businesses in places without such an initiative.

  

Mitchell will provide examples of how the survey data has been used in communities across the country and will invite webinar participants to take part in a question-and-answer session. The 2014 Independent Business Survey was conducted by ISLR in partnership with Advocates for Independent Business, of which the American Booksellers Association is a founding member. Results of the entire survey can be downloaded here.