Making Storytime Fun and Profitable

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT

Learn how to attract capacity crowds week after week and how to market to this captive audience to drive sales.  Energetic and dynamic bookstore storytime leaders will discuss how to incorporate variety, pacing, and songs to add to the fun, as well as the risks and rewards of soliciting donations or even charging admittance.  This session will also include a demonstration of tips and tricks for wearing costume characters, including fun and easy ways to pose for pictures, how to deal with frightened children, and simple moves to make the character come alive.

  • Clare Doornbos, DIESEL, A Bookstore (Larkspur, CA)
  • Amy Oelkers, Red Balloon Bookshop (Saint Paul, MN)
  • Chudney Ross, Books and Cookies (Santa Monica, CA)
  • Sarah Bagby, Watermark Books (Wichita, KS) (moderator)
     

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