Things You Learn Running a Bookstore

By Dane Carlson on February 1, 2013 in Ideas

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1. People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs.

2. While you’re drafting that business plan, cut your projected profits in half. People are getting rid of bookshelves.

3. If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they’re not looking for classics, they want the romance section.

4. If someone comes in and says they read a little of everything, they also want the romance section.

jlsathre posted a total of 25 things she learned running a bookstore, so head over to her blog and read the rest.

Photo by Tischenko Irina/ShutterStock.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,198 posts to the site.

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