Education

09 Apr

Sign Up for April 18 IndieCommerce Webinar on Managing Staff and Customer Roles

The Thursday, April 18, live demonstration will cover managing staff and customer roles in the context of loyalty programs and frequent buyer clubs at bookstores.

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03 Apr

Navigating BookExpo 2019: A Checklist

BookExpo can be both exciting and overwhelming. For booksellers who have never attended or those who want to maximize their time at the show, here’s a checklist to help you draft a plan of action. 

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02 Apr

Sign Up for April 11 Marketing Meetup and IngramSpark Meetup Series

Guest speakers will discuss influencer marketing at ABA’s next meetup on April 11. Additionally, over the next three months, ABA will present a series of meetups focusing on IngramSpark.

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02 Apr
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Marketing Meetup Recap: Blog Marketing

ABA's latest Marketing Meetup covered the different ways booksellers can market their store using a blog.

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29 Mar

Share Your Brilliance! ABA to Call for Education Proposals for Winter Institute 2020

The April 10 issue of BTW will feature a link to an online form booksellers and other industry professionals can use to pitch topics for Winter Institute education sessions along with presenters and moderators.

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27 Mar
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ABA Learning on Demand: Creating Custom Order Confirmation E-mails & Invoices

The live demonstration, available on bookweb, illustrated how booksellers can create custom order confirmation e-mails and invoices using a new feature on their IndieCommerce websites. 

 
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26 Mar

Sign Up for March 28 and April 11 Marketing Meetups

At ABA’s next marketing meetup on Thursday, March 28, a selection of guest speakers will teach participating booksellers about blog marketing. The next meetup on April 11 will cover influencer marketing.

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20 Mar

Ideas Sought in Advance of ABA Educational Task Force Meeting

Bookseller members of ABA’s Educational Task Force offer suggestions to ABA staff members charged with developing educational programming for association events such as the Winter and Children’s Institutes.

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19 Mar

Marketing Meetup Recap: Marketing via Twitter

In this Marketing Meetup, booksellers discussed strategies for promoting their stores on Twitter, which boasts 67 million users in the U.S. alone.

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19 Mar

Wi14 Education: Selling Direct to Schools

Panelists offered the attending booksellers tips and tricks pertaining to the best practices they found most important for selling direct to schools, managing author event orders, and book fair distribution. 

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19 Mar

Sign Up for ABA’s March 28 Marketing Meetup

Blog marketing is used by businesses to reach their target market through additional online visibility, either via a blog within their website or a specific blogging platform like WordPress or Tumblr.

 

 

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13 Mar

Start Making Plans for BookExpo Now

Booksellers have a number of opportunities to meet authors, collect signed books, discover non-book items, network with editors and publicists, and explore new and upcoming titles at this year’s event.

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13 Mar

Wi14 Education: Thriving as a New Bookstore Owner

“Don’t feel bad if you’re not doing everything other stores are doing... Learn from those people over time, but just nail what you do,” said Tom Nissley of Phinney Books.

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12 Mar
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ABA Learning on Demand: IndieCommerce’s Wish List/Gift Registry Feature

The live demonstration, available now on BookWeb, illustrated how booksellers and customers alike can use the new wish list feature on IndieCommerce websites.

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12 Mar
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Registration for Children’s Institute Underway

Registration is filling up fast for the American Booksellers Association’s seventh ABC Children’s Institute, which will be held June 26–28 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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