*~#@ Stumbling into Monday Daily Chat Thread%*#~^

Pooky

Toni 80 up, 9 downA beautiful intelligent human being that doesn't take anyone's !!!!!!!!. A great shoulder to cry on, an excellent listener. A woman who knows what she wants and would do anything she could to help her friends out.
I had a bad day. I need a toni


Awwwww......what a load of utter.......:D

bookseller1980

I am soooo tired . I think it is all this doing nothing!
Off to Brownies soon - planting basil, rosemary and thyme seeds for out hospice appeal.

Then I have my home group.

Then I have to make lasagne for 8 ready for tomorrow nite.

May not be on-line tonight so you can all talk about me.:rotfl:

sallyx

It is quite a posh shop and its in quite a posh area so we get lots of grannys buying presents and stuff. We just need to advertise locally as amazingly loads of local people don't even know we exist. In town there are no childrens clothes shops now so we should be doing really well and making the most of the gap in the market

LouiseJ

OMG I just searched for my name:rotfl:

Well done on the skinny jeans Maz:T

sallyx

bookseller1980 wrote: »

I've got 20% off everything at the moment.
People are now assuming that I am closing down!:mad:
Although maybe that's not such a bad idea!

Have you thought laterally about it ie what activities could you bring into the shop to generate at least footfall of customers?
How about going out to local schools/pre-schools and asking about putting a 10%/20% voucher in their next newsletter. Setting up a book group that could meet in the evenings in the shop and allowing all members permanent % off books. Im sure you have probably thought about all these sorts of things already but sometimes you get so consumed by it all you can't see the wood for the trees

(Land_of)_Maz

free coffee n tea for browsers.... depends on if you could deter the undesirables, maybe there are none in your area....

do you have a reading area....

I'm sure someone suggested a childrens storytime.... that sounds lovely.

do you sell only brand new books? Is there a market in 2nd hand books.... you could offer to source them for people...?

Sell second hand books for others and take commision?

Sell via your store online on amazon marketplace (i know, it's the devil! but if you can't beat em etc)

probably all things you've thought of before hun......


Have a nice time with your girlies! Erin has her Brownies tonight, and she hasn't done her bird spotting homework! oooops! bad mum!!

sallyx

Sure Lenny could help with that homework Maz Has anyone heard from him? Hope his brakes were ok and he's not in a ditch somewhere!

Burlesque_Babe

haven't been to Dorchester for years Sally, got an excuse now

Shopping has arrived. It's the monthly shop OH pays for, lots of storecupboard stuff, cupboards, fridge and freezer are heaving. It needs to last as long as possible, I'm going to try for 15 NSD's next month to try to get my budget in line a bit.

My hiccups had gone. I just ate a banana and they have come back.....:rolleyes:

sallyx

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

haven't been to Dorchester for years Sally, got an excuse now

Shopping has arrived. It's the montly shop OH pays for, lots of storecupboard stuff, cupboards, fridge and freezer are heaving. It needs to last as long as possible, I'm going to try for 15 NSD's next month to try to get my budget in line a bit.

My hiccups had gone. I just ate a banana and they have come back.....:rolleyes:

You'll have to come over for Coffee BB, you could get the train or Bus if ou didn't fancy the drive.

I too could do with 15 NSD's actually I could do with 28 next month but somehow don't think that will happen :rotfl:

Burlesque_Babe

I know - what am I like?.........I was going to say 'I'd come over, but that means driving'.......:rolleyes:

I have a list of 101 challenges to complete in 1001 days - funnily enough one of them is 'drive to Dorchester'........not sure why I chose Dorchester as a kind of yard stick to challenge myself by, but I've got around 980 days left to complete it!