Next “Top 10 Things to Know About...” Webinar to Look at Creating Safe and Profitable Virtual Events

The American Booksellers Association has launched the new webinar series “The Top 10 Things to Know About...” to help booksellers as they enter the final quarter of the year.

The next webinar will take place on Thursday, October 15, at 3:00 p.m. ET on “Top 10 Things to Know About: Creating Safe and Profitable Virtual Events.” With the growing number of virtual events across an expanding number of platforms, this session aims to offer booksellers tips, tricks, and guidance on how to create safe yet profitable events in the new digital world.  

Following each webinar, booksellers will find a recap of the discussion in Bookselling This Week as well as on the dedicated “Top 10 Things to Know About…” page on BookWeb. All webinars will be recorded and added to the Education Resources page.

The remaining topic, on October 22 at 3:00 p.m. ET, will be “Top 10 Things to Know About: Keeping Calm and Carrying On (in a World of Face Masks, Hand Sanitizer, Race Relations, and Election Tensions).

In addition, Bookselling This Week will cover four more “Top 10” topics in the coming weeks:

• Top 10 Tips for Ordering Calendars and Nonreturnables (available now)
• Top 10 Tips for Curbside and Delivery Service (available now)
• Top 10 Morale Boosters and Self-Care Tips 
• Top 10 Things to Know About Hiring, Training, and Managing Remote Workers

Email [email protected] if your store has implemented successful measures on any of these topics, and your tips may be shared for other booksellers to take advantage of.